17-year old dives head first into pollution
Grade 12 learner willing to take environmental issues into his own hands.
A 17-year-old learner hopes to inspire the next generation to take care of our environment because it is the only one we have.
Johannesburg North resident, Nicholas Petrovic is a Grade 12 learner and head of environmental affairs at Dainfern College.
Together with the Dainfern Parents’ Association, he helped organise a successful annual ‘swimathon’ at the school to raise awareness of the damage plastic is wreaking in our oceans.
“The aim was to replicate all the plastics in the oceans to create awareness. With all the plastics that are being produced, only 9% of it gets recycled and the rest ends up in our oceans and [on our] beaches. We try to teach the younger generation about littering and how our plastic ends up in the ocean affecting the marine life and their habitats,” he said.
The school filled the swimming pool with hundreds of plastic bottles and some learners ‘swam’ through the plastic to symbolise the struggle our marine life faced every day.
Nicholas aims to study medicine at the University of Cape Town after his final year at Dainfern College.
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