Doing More With Less

Jamie, James and Mitchell, students from Riverside Primary School, had a surprise opportunity last week - they received a reward for their Doing More With Less Project efforts. They were invited to a special meeting at Scotch College in Swanbourne to listen to Paul Sharp, founder of Two Hands Project. Paul showed the students a film about his adventures on the Pacific Ocean looking for rubbish sucked into the ocean from the Japanese Tsunami. Paul tracked the rubbish across the sea and surveyed the distribution and types of rubbish found. He showed the findings to the students. He talked about how rubbish affected marine life and how in fact plastic was pollution because it broke down and was now being eaten by marine life and the marine life was in turn being eaten by other predators, and that people were eating the fish.He said much of it was 'stupid plastic' - plastic that was single use, like bottle tops and plastic bags!
The three boys were inspired by the talk and went back to their school and helped organise their own Two Hands Project - half an hour of cleaning up in a place you love. The students at Riverside chose their school.

Look what can be achieved in 30 minutes! 

Riverside young leaders meet Paul Sharp. Two Hands Project