The Hellenic Centre for Marine Research – IMBBC has visited the kindergarten school kids of the Elia village (Crete, Greece) on 14th of January 2022 and performed a presentation, during which the value of the marine environment and the impact of plastic litter and microplastics were presented. The kids took the role of young journalists and asked questions related to the marine environment and its problems to the HCMR scientists.