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Single Use Plastic Snake Scales Started!

2/26/2019

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Well we finally are under way ... The young people of Dublin 8 ( CMS Learning Centre, St. Francis CBS, Warrenmount and St Bridget's primary schools) are all coming together and reshaping all their school lunch single use plastic to create scales of a giant 30ft snake.... wonderful young talent  and lively debate (with some impromptu dancing) all day.....but the scary part is how much plastic was waiting fo me when I arrived. Each lunch consists of..
  • Chopped fruit in a sealed plastic bag
  • Sandwich in a sealed plastic bag, with a "fresh daily" tag
  • Water bottle 
  • Milk carton with Plastic straw in a plastic bag
  • Pasta pot/Granola with plastic fork/spoon
and this is EVERY day.... so as you can imagine these young people find it difficult to understand that single use plastic is something to be concerned about - it's their everyday reality!
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Creative Flair - €6m funding announced

2/23/2019

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Great to see the minister for culture Josepha Madigan and Katherine Zappone sporting some of the plastic headdress creations made in recent PEOPLE AGAINST PLASTIC workshops. Speaking last week at the National Gallery of Ireland Ministers Madigan, McHugh and Zappone announced a combined 2019 budget of €6m for Creative Youth, an initiative of the all-of-Government Creative Ireland Programme, which aims to enable the creativity of children and young people.
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Creative Flair- €6m fund announced

2/23/2019

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Great to see the minister for culture Josepha Madigan and Katherine Zappone sporting some of the plastic headdress creations made in recent PEOPLE AGAINST PLASTIC workshops. Speaking last week at the National Gallery of Ireland Ministers Madigan, McHugh and Zappone announced a combined 2019 budget of €6m for Creative Youth, an initiative of the all-of-Government Creative Ireland Programme, which aims to enable the creativity of children and young people.
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The Snake of Plastic Waste

2/13/2019

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Delighted to be working with the wonderful young people from of Dublin 8 - St Francis CBS, The Iveagh trust and the  YMCA in conjunction with  St Patrick's Cathedral
on a new arts project highlighting the sheer lunacy of our usage of Single Use Plastic.

Each of the 4 items in the daily lunches provided to the students comes individually wrapped in plastic (health and safety requirements)  and together we are collecting it (and their crisp packets) over a 4 week period to create a 30 ft Plastic snake!
How can we possibly hope to teach young people to use less plastic if we are giving them no alternatives?
WATCH THIS SPACE!
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The Snake of Plastic Waste

2/13/2019

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 Delighted to be working with the wonderful young people from of Dublin 8 - St Francis CBS, The Iveagh trust and the  YMCA in conjunction with  St Patrick's Cathedral
on a new arts project highlighting the sheer lunacy of our usage of Single Use Plastic.

Each of the 4 items in the daily lunches provided to the students comes individually wrapped in plastic (health and safety requirments)  and together we are collecting it (and their crisp packets) over a 4 week period to create a 30 ft Plastic snake!
How can we possibly hope to teach young people to use less plastic if we are giving them no alternatives?
WATCH THIS SPACE!
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    Annie Holland is an Irish artist and photographer currently engaged in artworks that tackle and highlight, the growing problems of plastic pollution.

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