The Grimwades are having a family day out at the seaside. They go to the park, have a paddle and enjoy a picnic. They don’t have much rubbish, but when they find a waste bin they think twice about filling it up as in popular places like the seaside, bins can fill up quickly and spillover. Mum suggests, “Grimwade Gang, let’s go green!”

To help them go green, the Grimwades use the 5 ‘R’ words. Their choices are refuse, reduce, reuse, repair or recycle. Today the Grimwade Family decide to reduce.

This is easy for the Grimwades. To reduce rubbish in the bin, they decide to take it home and put it on the compost. They then notice a community litter group and ask what they are doing. The group are doing an organised litter pick, so the Grimwades volunteer their services.

The organiser kits out the children with gloves, a bucket to collect the rubbish and a litter picker, and they head off to reduce litter on the beach.

Hosanna talks to the Head Ranger for the beach to understand why, though there aren’t many people on the beach, there is still lots of litter. She shows Hosanna the strandline where litter in the sea is left on the beach after high tide.

Heze and Halle are shown the different types of litter and are asked to conduct a survey to find out what type of litter is the biggest problem. Heze reports that the biggest problem is fishing line, with 22 items found.

The Grimwades have gone green. Why don’t you go green too? If you have a picnic somewhere, try and use as many reusable items to contain it. And if you do have any rubbish, please take it back home with you.

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