Great Pacific Garbage Patch! UGHH!

See us listed here on the Kids Helping Kids website!

Go Pollution Posse!

Recycle Caps Program

We at the Pollution Posse are getting our school involved in this program and the caps are flowing in!

Find out more here... Recycle caps

Mr. Forde :-)

The Pollution Posse at SoundWaters

The Educator's Guide to Marine Debris!

Check out this really cool book FULL of information about our beaches and the deadly things that are happening to them!

http://www.cosee-se.org/marinedebris.php

Plastic Bag Project!

Below is a link of a plastic bag video. Our new project is about reducing or banning plastic bags in supermarkets. Most of the plastic bags that we use today end up in our beaches or in the body of an animal. A lot of supermarkets are aware of this problem so they are selling reusable bags for us to use. Whenever you have a choice of paper or plastic, PLEASE CHOOSE PAPER!!! Lucky for us, the reusable bags are pretty cheap. PLEASE HELP!!!

Our Plan

Our Disney Planet Challenge Plan is to complete the following.....
- Collect 1,000 Caps to be Recycled
- Conduct a beach clean up at the Cove
- Produce a News Broadcast
- Have a Successful Blog
-Be a Part of The Plastic Pollution Coalition
- Have a Beautiful Scrapbook that Shows what we did!
- Put the word out to stop the use of plastic bags in grocery stores
- Go to the P.T.O and ask them to order Scofield Re-Useable bags

We really hope our project is Awesome and Disney Planet Challenge will like our project.
-The Pollution Posse

Plastic Bottle Cap Drive!

The Bottle Cap Drive!

Mr. Forde’s Advisory is collecting plastic bottle caps, like the ones that are found on your water bottles. Our goal is to collect 1,000 bottle caps. So come on and help us reach our goal. This is only part of our community service and we need your help! We don’t want these plastic caps to hurt our wild life. You can make a difference!
November 14 – An Un-Decided Date

Please Help Us. Our Success Depends on Your Participation!
Thanks!
-The Pollution Posse

Get fired up pollution posse!

We are going to hit the ground running starting tomorrow so here is a video to fire you up!

From the Plastic Pollution Coalition....

The REFUSE Pledge
Disposable plastics are the greatest source of plastic pollution. Designed to be discarded, straws, plastic bottles, plastic utensils, lids, plastic bottles and so many others offer a small convenience but remain forever. REFUSE disposable plastics! Follow the “4 Rs” of sustainable living: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

We did a beach clean up in September!

Click here to see a slide show of us hard at work!

2009 Beach Clean-up Data

In 2009 the international beach clean up found anything from cigarette butts to 55 gallon drums (and other household appliances). We participated by going to a local event at Soundwaters/ Cove Island Beach. Internationally there was 7.4 million pounds of debris collected! That's a lot of garbage!!

Marine debris can hurt humans by exposing them to sharb objetcs like broken glass and metal cans.

The three most common items found last year were: 1) Cigarettes/butts 2) Plastic Bags 3) Food Wrappers/Containers. These can be very harmful to marine life.

What do you think we can do to make a difference and reduce this terrible amount of marine debris?

Let us know!!! --- The Pollutuion Posse

Save Our Sound!!!!

WELCOME!! We are a group of students that are trying to decrease the amount of garbage, pollution, and plastic waste in the Long Island Sound! Our class has entered in a Disney Planet Challenge to help the earth go green. You should try being green yourself too. By joining in on our project with the Long Island Sound, you yourself are being a green hero!Just the little things you do by picking up garbage when you pass it and shutting off the lights when your are not in a room can make such a big difference!!! Please help support us in our big green project by posting on our blog daily and helping the world one step at a time!