Small Island, Big Choices

This EWWR, the Malta National Aquarium is challenging schools and visitors to rethink waste through the 10Rs. Most of us know Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, but the full list goes much further. Through games, role-play, videos and a planet that needs saving, we’ll show that the best waste is the waste we never create, and that what happens on land so often ends up in the sea.

 

Emergency State (ages 10+, 45 min)

Malta is in crisis! Teams take on North Malta, South Malta, Comino or Gozo, each facing real local problems such as food waste, littering and coastal pollution. They come up with ideas, sort the good from the bad, then link the best into a circular system, for example turning food waste into compost that helps local farms grow. Teams present their plans, and the session ends by imagining the solutions that could one day become real.

 

Unsustainable Places (ages 7–10)

A polluted beach, a river clogged with clothes, a town with no trees. Each group acts out a place in trouble, their classmates guess what’s going wrong, and the whole class works together to fix it.

 

Aquaponics (video and Instagram video)

Fish feed plants, and plants clean the water for the fish. Our video shows how the Aquarium’s aquaponics system turns fish waste into food for plants, with no chemical fertiliser and the same water reused again and again.

 

From Cup to Compost (Instagram video)

We serve a lot of coffee, so what happens to the grounds? Instead of going in the bin, they go back into our plants.

 

Get to Know the 10Rs (Instagram)

You might know three Rs, maybe five, but what about all ten? A series of simple posts will introduce them one by one.

 

Keep the Planet Whole (quiz)

How much do you really know about our planet? Visitors answer environment and waste questions.