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What does Sustainability mean? Sustainability means to be able to maintain something like life at a specific level for a period of time. Today the meaning of the word is, the heart of the environment.

Liverpool Walk On our exciting plus exclusive walk we found some environmental issues such as:1# illegal littering- such as wasted food scraps, plastic, cigarette, alcohol bottles, even the fact that people are abandoning shopping trolleys everywhere in public areas and lakes which are causing lakes to be dirty and polluted. And also the shopping trolleys are just sitting there in random places, therefore it making people tempered to think that they can dumped their rubbish in it.2# Graffiti- graffiti is vandalizing people's property, such as walls and buildings thus, it's causing people who own the place or clean the place to work extremely hard to scrab it of and it's destroying the environment, causing it to look terrible.

My Local area media type="custom" key="19374702" width="120" height="120"media type="custom" key="19343438" width="117" height="117" Initially, in my local area, which is in Heckenberg there are a few environmental issues around and they occur in the park often. These environmental issues are: smashed glass bottles on the pathway, tonnes of rubbish in the river, dumped rubbish everywhere, and lasts but not least graffiti being sprayed on people's property. My suggestions that I would do to fix these problems are: asking the council, to form a group of volunteers to help clean up the place, maybe schools can help too. Another positive thing, that I thought of was that schools and some areas, should have an area where people can grow plants and food, like a garden, and that's all I thought of.

On our Merl day excursion, there were three guest speakers. These lonely guest speakers were Peter Carroll, Melisa Harning and Gary, and also they all manage to astonish me with their presentation which was what I was looking for.

Mr Carroll who a S.C.R.A.P (school community recycling all paper) men told us some interesting facts like how much plastic can be recycle (25%) while some amount of rubbish, can't be recycled (75%), we humans can produces a huge, gigantic, enormous amount of rubbish, although we waste a lot we can still be recycle (70%).

Mrs Harning told us some interesting facts too, the facts that I thought was really interesting was that if you would like to help/ volunteer your local area so that you can save the world and that it can be a better place for you and the animals they will be more happy to allow you too do so, if you want to there are nine options to choose to do. Mr Burrows presented his on prezi which had lots of details and information. The thing that I like most was the fact that he asked us detailed, brilliant plus educational questions.

Workshops Trolleys 1)What policies can be put into place to stop the dumping of trolleys? 2) Which super market trolleys are being dumped? 3) Which area in Liverpool has the most abandoned shopping trolleys? Why? 4)How do ALDI shopping trolleys work? 5)What is the cost of trolleys repair?and how much do new trolleys cost?

Tree planting 1) How will we bring back the endangered species of Liverpool into the area? 2)what are the native flora and fauna of Liverpool? 3)which plants/ animals are endangered in Liverpool? 4)what policies Liverpool council has in place to protect the endangered plants/animals? 5) how much money in spent on repairing damaged park lands?

Workshop Trolley Answers for Question 4: ALDI uses a coin deposit system for their shopping trolleys in order to stop people from dumping them. Each shopping trolley is fitted with an electronic locking wheel, a transmitter with a thin wire, is placed around the perimeter of the parking lot, so when the shopping trolley happens to leave the wired area, it deactivate the lock with a hand-held remote to return the cart to the stock, often a line is painted in front of the broadcast to warn customers that their cart will stop if they travel past the line. Unfortunately these systems are very expensive to install plus the lock and wires can't handle the strength we use to push the trolleys pass the wired area, ( You can still push the trolley away from the wired area).

World Environment Day On the 5th of June, the senior of All Saint Catholic Primary School went to the All Saint Catholic Girls College to watch a performance about World Environment day. They performed different things such as singing, dancing and acting their performances was great, along with the performance there were videos about what we humans do to the Earth God has given to us.

Positive things about trolley policies: 1) Saves supermarkets lots of money 2) Gives people discipline 3) Gives people space to park 4) Trolley tracker app is free

Negatives things about trolley policies: 1) Not all people follow the policy 2) Can be fined up to $600 by the council 3) People will be angry about they live far away from the supermarket and don't have a car to carry their supplies

Tree Planting With Melisa Harning  On the 25th of June our class, 6 Cahill went on a tree planting excursion at Warick farm park ,in order to plant 200 shrubs. As we arrived we met Melisa Harning and another helper, before we were able to start planting Mrs Harning told us to form a group of three students, gave us proper equipment, handy demonstration and last but not least advice. My group, which was me, Alexia and Mikayla planted approximately 25 shrubs. During the day we manage to finish all 200 shrubs in time to go back to school.