TY YSI group from St. Conleth’s Community College in Newbridge 18/19. Our global issue is Plastic Pollution. We want to reduce the usage of single-use plastic.
Kildare, Ireland
Joined February 2019
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Today, Shane from @AidTheOcean came down from Sligo to help us out with a lake clean. We collected 7 bags (after we put the clear ones inside the green ones) from around Dara Park and the lake itself. A huge thank you to Shane and the rest of our TY class for the help! 💙 #ysinow
We are extremely proud of our fellow YSI team for launching their EP! Please share and support. 💙 #ysinow
OUR EP “DON’T IGNORE THE SIGNS “is out on iTunes now!!! It will be out on other music platforms over the next few days so stay tuned. Huge thanks to everyone who made this possible 💛💛💛 itunes.apple.com/ie/album/do… What are you waiting for ?!?! @st_con_cc_newb @HopedCharity @YSInow
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It wasn’t the best weather but we still managed!
Today some of our TY class went around our school collecting litter on the grounds. We ended up with 17 bags in just one hour. We’re still going onwards and upwards and won’t stop now! #ysinow #lessplasticmorelives @YSInow
We have made a little advert slip to promote our gofundme. We plan on going around our estates and dropping these in the mailbox because our project affects everyone so we all must get a chance to do something about it.
Here’s the link to our gofundme: gf.me/u/sc6n5i 💙
@TTNewbridge @SocDemsKS @Fiona_Kildare @Cris_P_KE @ShamrockSpring @fionamacky please retweet to help us spread the word 💙
It was very nice to meet with Dara from @KildareCoCo today. He listened to our ideas about getting a @Refill_Ireland water machine in our town as well as improving our new skatepark and thought it was a great initiative! 👍💙 #ysinow #LessPlasticMoreLives
Water in a can bottle?? 🤔
We recently discovered this amazing idea when we visited GMIT for an architecture presentation. We were really happy to see this and hope more stores start selling these. They’re a great substitute for plastic bottles!
#lessplasticmorelives #ysinow
Source: RTE
SuperMacs have begun taking steps towards a better and greener fast food joint by replacing plastic straws with paper ones across all the outlets! Who is the next business to join them ? 👀
#lessplasticmorelives #ysinow
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Amazing work done by Shane in Sligo! 💙👍
What a great weekend, we collected 330lbs at Cartron Bay & a massive 1100lbs today At the Low Sea Wall (we cleaned there fully just 3 months ago)
Totalling a whopping 1430lbs(648kg)
Thank you to everyone who gave us time out of their bank holiday weekend. #EarthDay #aidtheocean
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Single Use Plastic
A significant quantity of plastic packaging cannot easily be recycled – it will end up in Landfill, our Rivers, Oceans and in our Hedgerows.
@ysiLPML
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Thank you 💙 Change needs to start from somewhere and we decided it must start with us. #LessPlasticMoreLives
How inspirational are you @ysiLPML thank goodness for TY students . We hear you and hopefully #LE19 candidates will too. We want their support for a @PosterfreeIE TT area. @KnocklyonNet @NIALLfresh @TallaghtComCo @DodderAction
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Please do take a few minutes to fill out this survey, we did!
Survey time! If you could take two minutes to fill our this survey about plastics, that would be great thank you! 🌍♻️ #plastic @UCDEarth @ucddublin @UCDGreenCampus @UCD_Geography @ucd_biosoc @ucdscisocial @PhysicsUCD #sustainabledevleopment docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
Amazing work that’s going on down in Sligo!! 💙👍 #lessplasticmorelives
Wow what support we got today on the #SickOfPlastic campaign! 1274 people signed the petition and loads joined in to show support.
The #shopanddrop in Tesco Sligo was a big success thank you to everyone that took part.
#aidtheocean #plasticfree #timeforachange #PlasticPollution
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Great to see our fellow students getting involved in YSI Week 💙💙 @YSInow
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We wanted to link YSI with the Special Needs Unit (SNU) as part of Autism Awareness Month in our school for YSI week.
We decided to host an Easter egg hunt. There were 12 clues, we used plastic bottles to store each clue and they all had a fact about plastic pollution in them.
Source: ourworldindata.org
We generate and use so much plastic only for one tenth of it to be recycled more than once. The other estimated 90% goes straight to the waste stream... We couldn’t believe it.
Things have got to change.
#lessplasticmorelives #ysinow #plasticfree
Pleased to help @st_con_cc_newb students Victory and Claudia kickstart their campaign for Plastic bottle bins across Newbridge #LessPlasticMoreLives @ysiLPML
Yesterday, we met with our local TD @Fiona_Kildare and told her about our ideas to get different kinds of bins to get into our new skatepark. We were very pleased to meet her and thankful for the advice she gave us. 💙 #tellyourTD #lessplasticmorelives @KildareCoCo @TTNewbridge
YSI SPEAK OUT TOUR SOUTH DUBLIN 2019
It was a really great opportunity and we’re glad we got the chance to be a part of the programme this year. Thank you ysinow… instagram.com/p/BvfIDKshntM/…
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