Understanding and Revitalizing the Kuils River Catchment - Pollution Solution: Re-use, Reduce and Recycle Fairdale High School no.1

Understanding and Revitalizing the Kuils River Catchment

Community Awareness and Sustainable Practices for the Future

BY FAIRDALE HIGH SCHOOL no.1

We as the students of, Fairdale High School No.1 have been given the platform and opportunity to join the family of EMG. EMG is a non-governmental organisation, that strives to encourage and empower young people by providing them with the equipment and resources that they need.

This year as Fairdaleans of Fairdale No.1 we have learnt a vast amount of information about our planet, societies, and communities, all thanks to EMG. EMG gave us the platform and opportunity to spread our knowledge and reflect on the year's key learnings about the contamination in the Kuils River catchment.

This year was a very fun and educational year, whereby we as Fairdale High school No. 1 learnt that there are many different ways in which we contribute to the contamination.

Some things we do knowing very well what the outcome will be, such as using an item and then throwing it away. Items such as single-use plastic bags, plastic bottles, take-out utensils and urinating at the catchment.

There are of course consequences for our actions like pollution, poisoned soil, severe weather conditions, extinction to habitats and some species cannot adapt to the conditions and they die.

This is very sad, how innocent lives are affected by our reckless behaviours.

However, there is a solution to the crisis. The main solution would be greening the space, planting trees, plants, flowers, draining all dirty and polluted water and adding reliable water sources.

Greening the space in this way would promote biodiversity. It could even boost the economic sector, by attracting tourists and creating job opportunities and the best part is it would not harm the environment and this way we would not loose animals nor plants.

To link it up we as humans promote contamination. Luckily there is a solution, we can limit the amount of waste we make by using the three R's: Re-use, Reduce and Recycle. This way we live longer and better, as well as other species (animals and plants).