Beach-cleaning in Trondheim.

Marine life across our common seas are treathened by the increasing amount of waste, plastic waste in particular, filling the oceans. It is crucial that we prevent the waste from entering the water. Today we therefore participated in a beach cleaning exercise at the Korsvika beach in Lade, Trondheim. With the purpose of increasing the awareness of the problem. It was an interesting experience and we got to learn a lot from some divers about what they do and what they find. There was also some really delicious sea food made from some blue shells and vegetables. That was a lovely meal prepared by some really great chefs at the beach. The most fulfilling part was being able to get rid of some of the micro plastics at the beach which usually cause a lot of damage to the aquatic life and the birds around the beach.

Students from Akosombo participating in the beach-cleaning exercise.

In Ghana, a lot of the beaches are very much littered with plastics and a lot of people dump their garbage at the beaches and do other things which make the beaches quite dirty. I think the main problem is the negative human factor because of these bad activities which cause damage to our environment. By involving the people, especially those who live close to the beaches, we can help to keep the beaches clean and also organising clean-up exercises like the one we had today will be very helpful in dealing with the problem of sanitation on our beaches.

A chef cooking sea food at the beach.

Divers coming back onto the beach after their dive.

More cleaning.

Edem Yegbe.
President, Eco-School Club
Akosombo International School