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 * During our walk around Liverpool city, I notice some bad observation happening in our environment. What I **** saw was trolleys been left on the road and rubbish been left in the river and the walkway. Here are some of the things that I saw affecting our environment, I saw a half watermelon in the Georges River and Chip packets. The first place that we went to was the Memorial Pioneer Park the Year 6 teachers let us look at peoples gravestone what I found was very interesting was that there was a whole family that died. The family had two boys one of the boy was 13 months old, the other was 8 years old, the mum was 38 years old and the dad was 40 years old. Also I found another one that was very interesting, the man was only sleeping but his family thought he was dead so then the family buried him. After all that walk we stopped at Bigge Park and ate our lunch. Then we walk back to school. **

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These are the issue that occur in Liverpool:

Abandoned Shopping trolleys

** illegal dumping and littering **

= MERL Day =


 * During MERL Day, 3 guests speakers went to St. Christopher's Holsworthy to show and talk about our environment **


 * Peter talked about the huge amount of garbage that we humans, dump on landfills. He also talked about the fact that not all plastics can be recycled, 70% of our waste can be recycled and 25% of it is plastic. **


 * Melissa talked about Liverpool Council's environmental Plans. Below are some of the enviromental plans: **

- worm farms - monthly community tree planting - free environment workshops - school environmental planting -Bush regeneration

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Gary talked about some of the renewable energy, increasing population and rising sea levels. He also said that the frogs has been living longer than us and that they are relying on us to care for our environment.

We attended the following workshops during the day:

- Plant propagating - Uno's Garden story - Learning about Worm Farm/Compost

Shopping Trolleys:

=== Target- You can only use Target's shopping trolleys when purchasing something from Target. They track down any lost trolleys by a trolley tracker. Once a month trolley guys, from independent trolley companies come to repair any damaged trollies. ===

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=== Woolworths- The same as target, Woolworth's shopping trolley policies is that you can only use their trolleys when purchasing something from their shop. Every night, special trolley guys go out and collect any lost trolleys and get locked in a cage overnight. The next morning they will be immediately return to Woolworths. ===

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=== Coles- When you get caught using Coles shopping trolleys without any intentions of using it for shopping in their store, you get fined by the council up to $600. Each new trolley cost $300. People from trolley companies come every month to fix and maintain the trolleys. When people see any lost trolleys, they phone 1800 and as a reward, they get to have a chance to win $1000. ===



=== Aldi- At aldi they have a coin deposit system where you have to put a gold coin in before you use it. You can only retrieve the coin by returning the trolleythe shop. They have another system where the trolleys have a limited distance, therefore when you exceed the limit, the trolleys will stop working. ===




 * Franklins- Cares for the environment on a number of levels, particularly in regards to trolleys being abandoned in streets and local surrounds. So Franklins makes every effort to keep their trolleys in store. Occasionally a trolley is taken away from the store and left in the streets or parkland in the surrounding neighbourhood. **

**The positive and negatives about trolleys are:**
 * Positives: **
 * Coin Deposit- if you don't return your trolley you will lose $2. **
 * Self Lock System- if a trolley go out of a car boundary it will lock itself. **
 * $1000 Draw- If you find a lost trolley on the street you return it your name will go in the draw. **


 * Negative: **
 * People- Leaving trolleys on streets. **
 * Pollution- People leaving rubbish in the trolleys when the trolleys are been left on the street. **
 * Trolley left in carparks- Cars can't park in a space when trolleys are being left in a space. **