We went out collecting plastic and got a good haul. Although the school is fairly central and the town clean-up crew comes past regularly, most of the plastic came from fast food snacks. It mainly got caught in the bushes, which should serve as a refuge for wildlife…

Pupils from the eighth grade at Schiller-Gymnasium went to Grunewald and managed to get 5 full bags of plastic in two hours.

Another day, while looking at abiotic factors in Grunewald, seventh-graders collected several bags of rubbish. Similar to the inner city, the rubbish was mainly plastic bottles, food takeaway packaging, and tissues. For some strange reason, people also carefully pick up dog excrement, wrap it in plastic bags and then leave it hanging on a bush or on the side of the path,