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Welcome to the virtual exhibition named Plastic Horizon. It was made as a part of the Erasmus+ project Kids Against Plastic Pollution.
The photographs were taken by students from five school project partners in four countries - Croatia, Norway, Romania, and Turkey.
The goal of this exhibition is to raise awareness of plastic pollution on an international scale.
Through the art of visual media, the viewer is exposed to the global self-imposed problems we are currently facing. Through this exposure, it is our hope that our students and others will gain new understanding and drive to work on this ever-expanding problem.
The photographs were taken by students from five school project partners in four countries - Croatia, Norway, Romania, and Turkey.
The goal of this exhibition is to raise awareness of plastic pollution on an international scale.
Through the art of visual media, the viewer is exposed to the global self-imposed problems we are currently facing. Through this exposure, it is our hope that our students and others will gain new understanding and drive to work on this ever-expanding problem.
Bergen, Norway
Just a few minutes from Rothaugen school, the problems related to plastic waste can be seen. Two of the pictures were taken just a short walk from our school. More awareness is definitely needed, as this project aims to raise.
Ever since the spring of 2017, ‘Slurpen’ has been actively used. ‘Slurpen’ is a floating plastic tube collector with the goal of sucking in big, small and micro plastic organisms. The bag connected to the tube is emptied by workers often. Later on they fill out a statistical form where they fill in the amount of plastic that has been collected, the country it originated from and the type of plastic they find in ‘Slurpen’. This procedure helps us to gain information and intel about the plastic pollution in our ocean. And we, the students of Rothaugen, were allowed to help them out! What did we do? We were given bags with the contents of ‘Slurpen’ within the past weeks. It was our job to sort out what we gathered and write it down in the statistical form. This is then later put into the electronic
Just a few minutes from Rothaugen school, the problems related to plastic waste can be seen. Two of the pictures were taken just a short walk from our school. More awareness is definitely needed, as this project aims to raise.
Ever since the spring of 2017, ‘Slurpen’ has been actively used. ‘Slurpen’ is a floating plastic tube collector with the goal of sucking in big, small and micro plastic organisms. The bag connected to the tube is emptied by workers often. Later on they fill out a statistical form where they fill in the amount of plastic that has been collected, the country it originated from and the type of plastic they find in ‘Slurpen’. This procedure helps us to gain information and intel about the plastic pollution in our ocean. And we, the students of Rothaugen, were allowed to help them out! What did we do? We were given bags with the contents of ‘Slurpen’ within the past weeks. It was our job to sort out what we gathered and write it down in the statistical form. This is then later put into the electronic
form. We send new pupils down each week so that we all take a small part in getting an overview of the plastic pollution problem. At “Slurpen” we collaborate with Bergen Harbour and UniResearch/Norce Research. Two of the pictures show some of the contents found in “Slurpen”.
Sotra is an island outside of Bergen. At Sotra there is a lot of plastic, and that is because there is a sea current that washes everything into shore here. When the students on Rotaugen were on a beach clean-up at Sotra, we walked for half an hour before we got to the place we were supposed to clean. When we first came there, we saw a lot of of oil cans and other big plastic products. However, when we started to dig, layers of plastic and other trash came to the surface. There were several feet down with layers upon layers of plastic. We were cleaning for hours and when we left we couldn’t even see that someone had been there. We found over 2 tons of plastic in about 3,5 hours. The last picture shows you what we found at Sotra.
Sotra is an island outside of Bergen. At Sotra there is a lot of plastic, and that is because there is a sea current that washes everything into shore here. When the students on Rotaugen were on a beach clean-up at Sotra, we walked for half an hour before we got to the place we were supposed to clean. When we first came there, we saw a lot of of oil cans and other big plastic products. However, when we started to dig, layers of plastic and other trash came to the surface. There were several feet down with layers upon layers of plastic. We were cleaning for hours and when we left we couldn’t even see that someone had been there. We found over 2 tons of plastic in about 3,5 hours. The last picture shows you what we found at Sotra.
form. We send new pupils down each week so that we all take a small part in getting an overview of the plastic pollution problem. At “Slurpen” we collaborate with Bergen Harbour and UniResearch/Norce Research. Two of the pictures show some of the contents found in “Slurpen”.
Sotra is an island outside of Bergen. At Sotra there is a lot of plastic, and that is because there is a sea current that washes everything into shore here. When the students on Rotaugen were on a beach clean-up at Sotra, we walked for half an hour before we got to the place we were supposed to clean. When we first came there, we saw a lot of of oil cans and other big plastic products. However, when we started to dig, layers of plastic and other trash came to the surface. There were several feet down with layers upon layers of plastic. We were cleaning for hours and when we left we couldn’t even see that someone had been there. We found over 2 tons of plastic in about 3,5 hours. The last picture shows you what we found at Sotra.
Sotra is an island outside of Bergen. At Sotra there is a lot of plastic, and that is because there is a sea current that washes everything into shore here. When the students on Rotaugen were on a beach clean-up at Sotra, we walked for half an hour before we got to the place we were supposed to clean. When we first came there, we saw a lot of of oil cans and other big plastic products. However, when we started to dig, layers of plastic and other trash came to the surface. There were several feet down with layers upon layers of plastic. We were cleaning for hours and when we left we couldn’t even see that someone had been there. We found over 2 tons of plastic in about 3,5 hours. The last picture shows you what we found at Sotra.
Mathilde Marjala
Eivind Bastesen
