International Coastal Cleanup Singapore 2005

The annual International Coastal Cleanup took place this morning & we headed to Kranji Nature Trail to check the event out!

We were the earlist to arrive, followed by the staffs. At around 8am, most of the participants,mainly students from various schools, arrived and we set off to the shores soon after.The students from different schools were allocated different sites where they had to collect trash from the shore & we decided to film the NUS students to see if anything interesting would happen.
I guess the NUS students were very happy about it.Look at their cheerful smiles!

Everyone was really doing their jobs, picking all the rubbish from the surface & some even tried to get it out from underground!& this was quite a lot of rubbish from just one point of the site!
The NUS students were having fun but the students from Victoria Junior College (VJC) seemed to be having more fun!The site they were allocated for ICCS consists of really soft mud which sinks up to knee height.

Some of them walked out further bravely to collect rubbish but unfortunately they were...
STUCK!

Another group of 'rescuers' approached them but...
they were stuck too!! I have no idea whether I was supposed to laugh or not but it'd obviously showed their power of unity and great friendship. *thumbs up*

And when some of them managed to get out of the mud, it's time for a big, victorious muddy hug!Others, however, managed to keep surprisingly clean!
Tom & Bernie interviewed some of the people involved in ICCS.
The bags of rubbish reminded me of a song."Bah bah black sheep have you any wool?"
"No sir, how about bags of rubbish, a stove & a giant tyre?"

A helper from Singapore American School (SAS) came towards me with a large trolley of rubbish& said:"If there is a fine of $500 for littering, then someone owes me a lot of money!!Sadly, the cam-recorder which I was holding couldnt pick up sound. =(

Rubbish were weighed for data collection
& these were the whole lots of rubbish collected by all of the participants at Kranji Nature Trail!
& there were more bags of rubbish to come!
Woah~

The muddy students cleaned up& the tired ones rested.
The event ended at about noon. All of us were tired too but we enjoyed today very much. I hope next year's ICCS will be just as interesting as today's, or maybe more interesting. =)