CAS Service International Clean Up Week

October 3rd 2023

As an introduction to the CAS service, students participated in an international competition, “Trash Art Awards”, launched by “The Trash Traveller”, who joined us at the beach and inspired us with some of his projects.

“Everyone was invited between September 16 and 24 to clean wherever they were; it didn’t matter if it was a beach, river, city or on a mountain. Cleaning the world is not possible if we do not tackle root causes, such as more awareness about littering or single-use packaging. Therefore, we clean to raise awareness after The Trash Traveler's motto, “with fun and creativity,” and emphasise the need for reusing and refilling what we already own. The collected trash is turned into an art piece, and a picture is uploaded to our platform.

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Disclaimer: Everyone’s a winner! We do not host this challenge to compete but to bring more importance to raising awareness as a collective. Everyone’s a winner for the planet and, fortunately, art is subjective!”
Source: https://thetrashtraveler.org/the-trash-art-awards/

In small groups, students created their artwork. After taking a photograph for the competition, they placed all the rubbish in the recycle bins and uploaded their work for the competition. We invite you to take a look and their projects below:

The Eye
"The eye represents how society should open its eyes to the very large problem of pollution of the environment."

The Smoking Turtle
"This is our turtle who is in a sea of plastic. Around its head, there are cigarettes to symbolise how polluted the ocean is, and since it's so polluted, in a way, the turtle may as well be a smoker. This is a metaphor for pollution and what it does to wildlife."

The Bird
"Nowadays, many birds are affected by mistaking trash in the oceans and beaches for food, which leads them to die of starvation and with their stomachs filled with plastic as they’re unable to digest it. This is why we created “Bird” to represent the idea that, unfortunately, these days, birds are made of plastic."