"My mum showed me videos of all the plastic in the ocean, and how it has built up over time. It is not good," Reef said.
"I don't want it to get to the point where there is little to no ocean wildlife left."
One of the videos Reef watched has been online since March.
"It says the garbage patch is now the three times the size of France and contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic. I want to recycle because it is an important part of our lives now.
We need to be doing more of it before it is too late."
Reef and Blake are joined in their campaign for more recycling bins by fellow students Tripp Biggs and Munahid Shah.
Mr Freke said that while they can tackle certain areas of waste, without a council collection for plastic recyclables it makes it more difficult.
Hamilton News contacted Hamilton City Council, which said that only certain schools qualified for residential recycling collection.
"As a legacy, some schools have access to the residential collection, but not many. The collection provided by council is intended to be for households and not organisations as the volume of waste and recycling is quite different.
The schools can collect their recycling and take it to the tip or can access private collections," Charlotte Catmur, waste minimisation advisor for the council said.
"At the moment we are looking at how we may be able to bring schools into our new waste plan, but we want to get it rolled out first."
Mr Freke said that while there may be added costs to included schools as part of the
collection system, it could be worthwhile in the future.
"There is a cost on the ratepayer and obviously kids may not make that connection but I guess is it a more worthwhile spend than putting a piece of artwork in Garden Place," Mr Freke said.
"We do have a number of systems in place in terms of that we recycle all of our paper through Full Circle which is great because the pay off for us is that they give us trees which we plant.
"With organic waste we are looking at how we can do composting, so we're looking at that environment standard which is full loop, so stuff that is coming on to our site, we manage on our site rather than sending the rubbish away."
He said there is awareness among the school's students now of the dangers that plastics pose on the environment, and that the school's student council is looking in to different ways to minimise waste.
"The key part of how we encourage students to learn at our school is through an inquiry process.
"It's to try and have a social outcome on the area you are working in, whether it is Endeavour School or your neighbourhood.
"Think global, but act local." Reef, Blake, Tripp and Munahid had suggestions of their own, including posters and more resources for households and schools.
"Blake and I came up with the idea of putting posters on rubbish pins to try and make people aware about it as well," Reef said.
Blake suggested that households should have bin for paper waste as well, while also saying community facilities should have recycling bins available.
"At parks and playgrounds there should be recycling bins with these posters on," Blake said.
The four students said it is time for everyone to play their part and start saving the world by recycling.
