Welcome to Coding for a Litter-Free Community!
Hello and welcome to Coding for a Litter-Free Community! Today, you will explore how you can use computer science to help solve one of the biggest problems facing our world today: litter and waste.
In the next three activities, you’ll see some examples of how engineers are using computer programming to reduce the amount of litter in their community. Then, you’ll get to try it out for yourself!
Did you know…
- Every day around 8 million pieces of plastic make their way into our oceans
- More than 1 million plastic bags end up in the trash every minute
- 500 billion plastic bottles are used every year ? meaning there are 66 times as many bottles as there are humans on the planet
(Source: https://www.condorferries.co.uk/plastic-in-the-ocean-statistics)