My Kaitiakitanga

Yesterday for one of my tasks I had to write a kaitiakitanga (guarding or managing nature). We had to make a promise statement, why this is important, a personal example of how you have kept your promise and two suggestions of how others can keep this promise. Here is my Kaitiakitanga.

You might think that not much litter is dropped at all well you’re wrong. An average of 2.25 million pieces of rubbish are dropped every single day! If this continues the earth will have a piece of rubbish every meter you walk. Gross isn’t it? The biggest producers of rubbish are China and the USA who produce 60% of the world’s rubbish. 

I promise to produce less rubbish. One way I am doing this is by bringing litter free lunches to school. 

Here are some ways to prevent rubbish ending up in the environment:

1. Put your rubbish in the proper bin! One tenth of Auckland's rubbish is put in the red bin when it should be put in the blue bin. I believe lockdown has helped people to litter less because people are putting rubbish in their bins because they are home all day.

2. You could also do little things like trying to avoid using plastic bags when you can use paper bags. If paper bags go into the environment they will decompose. 

3. Pick up rubbish when you see rubbish on the ground.

4. Avoid buying things that are individually wrapped like snacks.