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| Dive In Give Earth A Chance |
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| Our Committee for 2001 - 2002 who introduced the |
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| John Gray Recyclers' Website to the rest of the globe |
2001 - 2002
- Seated representing the Community: Sheril McField our President and Secretary, Alem Morgan our Treasurer. At the back representing
John Gray High School: Lawren Fullerton our Chairperson, Mrs Christine Whitehead - John Gray Recyclers' Co-ordinator, Anthony
Fraser our Website Co-ordinator
The John
Gray Recyclers Recycling/Environmental Club was formed in September 1996 by concerned students from the John Gray High School,
and our teacher Mrs Whitehead. They were active recyclers that cared about their environment. This club met initially once
a week.
The John Gray Recyclers' aim has been to promote active recycling in the Cayman Islands and to help keep the Cayman
Islands the beautiful paradise that it is for ourselves and our visitors. We hope very much that we will be able to encourage
everyone to take great care of the environment so that it does not become destroyed. Many coral reefs have/are being destroyed
throughout the world and we want to unite with other children/people throughout the world to try and stop this terrible destruction.
We have worked on various activites organised by the Department of Environmental Health and the Education Department.
We have participated in Science Fairs and an Art Recycling Workshop held by an Artist from Maine. We had our artwork on
display at the opening of the Cayman Islands' National Art Gallery. We have artwork currently on display in the classroom
that we use for our recycling activities as well as our Science Fair projects.
We had a recycling booth at the annual
Agricultural Society Show in order to promote active recycling.
We hold regular beach clean ups and regularly clean a
beach in North Side that becomes polluted when north easterly/westerly winds bring garbage onshore. We found a vial on this
beach that had been placed in the sea near Cuba as part of a pollution dispersal/marine life study by a United States marine
research team. Since then we have been very interested in pollution dispersal due to ocean currents and the gulf stream, as
well as other factors. When we do a beach clean up, we always check to see what type of garbage we have found and its origin.
We hold Earth Day activities every year and also participate in the World Environment Day organised by the United Nations.
The United Nations have signed our guest book and are pleased that we have started celebrating this very special day in the
Cayman Islands.
We have participated in four Pirates' Day Parades in succession, having won two second place and two third
places. Two years in succession we have distributed 1,000 leaflets about active recycling.
We have placed a question on
the UK Overseas Territories Conservations A Breath of Fresh Air Forum about the littering of reefs and shores by marine dispersal
of garbage. We have links to the Cayman Islands Department of Environment, the National Trust, and the Turtle Farm. We have
been spotlighted in the Lead Stories page of the Cayman News 27 website. We were also spotlighted in the October 2002 edition
of Whats Hot.
Our theme for 2002 was 'Dont Spoil with Oil' and we educated others of the importance of protecting our
coral reefs and our environment through our website and our activities.
Following this we concentrated on plastic six
pack holders and how if they end up as garbage they can kill our marine life. We now collect six pack holders and return them
to Bodden Beverages for recycling. We have also concentrated on the protection of the Grand Cayman Blue Iguana. We have also
created two songs about the Importance of the Protection of our Environment and these are on the Coral Reef Alliance
Website, organised by UNEP.
http://www.coralreefalliance.org/divein/eventideas/kids.html
2005 - Thank you the Seacology Foundation for giving us the wonderful
opportunity to be able to preserve Coral Reefs in Fiji and Micronesia, and for our Grand Cayman Seacology Project
at the Agape Worship Centre in South George Town. Also, our congratulations go to Jeremy Forbes our President, of the last
three years, on becoming the Cayman Islands' Seacology Representative.
Website information - we now have over
4,000 global visitors a month and our visitors are growing ... together we will preserve the world's environment
| North Side Tourism Beach Clean Up October 2000 |
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Priscilla "Grabbit" cleaning a beach of garbage at North Side.
This beach becomes polluted by garbage due to north westerly/easterly winds that bring the garbage onto Cayman's shores from
other parts of the world and the sea!
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Pirates' Day Float
Parade 2000 as described by the "Caymanian Compass"
"A libidinous iguana
was one of the main attractions at this year's John Gray Recyclers float. The Iguana had the Pirates Week crowd roaring with
laughter at his antics.
STUDENTS PROMOTE RECYCLING
A group of students from the John Gray High School recently
worked alongside Department of Environmental Health staffers to put together a Pirates Week float which emphasised the importance
of recycling.
The group, known as the John Gray Recyclers, was founded in September 1996 by concerned students and their
teacher, Mrs Christine Whitehead. Since then, youngsters from the government high school have taken part in science fairs,
beach clean-ups and workshops. However, their involvement with Pirates Week only started last year, when they won a second-place
prize.
This year's entry picked up a third-place award, with a float theme, "Enjoy, Don't Destroy: Recycle." More than
21 students took part in the effort.
The team is already looking forward to next year and wants to promote even more active
recycling in the Cayman Islands, according to Mrs Whitehead. (GIS)"
- 'The Caymanian Compass' Tuesday, 21 November 2000
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Our Recycling Club
meeting with the School Inspectors
We first created Reefy as part of our exhibition in the Science
Fair in February 1998.
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