On the 30th April Green School members took to the school campus and beyond to carry out a clean-up as part of the annual National Spring Clean event run nationwide by An Taisce (The National Trust for Ireland). Primary school students conducted a clean-up of the school grounds whilst secondary school students from St. Kilian’s and LFI focused on Roebuck Road, Clonskeagh and the lane way between UCD and the back of St. Kilian’s.
Although the roads at first glance seemed reasonably clean a substantial amount of waste was found lurking under hedgerows, in ditches and along the curbs. Students found everything from old cans and bottles to plastic wrappings and papers and collected in total more than ten sacks of rubbish. One group of students even retrieved a handbag which had been dumped in a residential area. All the volunteers were equipped with bags, grabbers and gloves supplied by An Taisce and donned their school jerseys for the day. Some neighbours stopped to congratulate the students on their efforts. Luckily the sun was shining on the day making the job a little easier for all involved. Well done to all who volunteered for making the campus and the local environment a cleaner place and raising attention to the issue of littering and recycling.
Green School Member Ciara Connolly talks about taking part in the National Spring Clean:
“On the 30th April 5 people from the Green School Committee led by Ms. Kavanagh, took part in the National Spring Clean. Sebastian, Shomik, Victoria, Juliette, Ms. Kavanagh and myself walked as far as Spar and cleaned around the surrounding area. It was good that we did this because some places were really filthy. We collected loads of waste in the little time we had and had lots of fun too. It was a great thing to do to help the community and improve our environment. We all agreed we want to do more clean ups in the neighbourhood in the coming year.”
National spring clean team
