Video #1- YOUTH MEDIA for TRASH FREE WATERS series, by 8th grade students in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York
When it rains, the litter on many NYC neighborhood streets goes into our sewer system then, out to our local waterways and beyond. This short stop motion animation and live action video visualizes just what happens to a cap, when you drop into the gutter. To protect our aging infrastructure and sewer pipes, on rainy days, that cap may totally bypass the waste water treatment plant, traveling instead through our sewer pipes to an outfall pipe, spilling into Jamaica Bay, the East River, or some other local waterway and eventually making its way to the ocean. The animation illustrates the cap breaking into small pieces, which are eaten by fish, and those polluting plastic bits return back to us in our seafood dinner!
So what SHOULD you do to keep your plastic bottle caps and litter out of our waterways? It’s not that hard. The 8th graders who created this video have a simple solution! Watch and find out.
The “Journey of Plastic Litter” was produced by 8th grade students from MS246 Walt Whitman in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The curriculum is a part of Cafeteria Culture’s interdisciplinary environmental education, YOUTH ARTS + MEDIA for TRASH FREE WATERS School Program (2016), which has been generously funded by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2, Sustainable Materials Management Section, CASD. Cafeteria Culture is most appreciative of additional support via our UL Innovative Education Award (2015) and The Fund for the City of New York.
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Post time: Jun-15-2017