We Picked Up So Much Litter!

Posted by Andrew Cheatley in English 1 · Giknis · E Band on Friday, June 9, 2017 at 2:41 pm

With my first blog post I talked about how the world will look like Earth from the Disney movie, WALL-E. The reason I related the future of Earth to WALL-E’s world is because in WALL-E the world is a trash planet covered in trash. There is buildings made of trash, now our Earth right now doesn’t have buildings of trash, but we do have large heaps and streets filled with trash. So how will it be in the future? Look at my old Blog Post here. In my second blog post I talked about my own research and my results. Such as my graphs histograms, and pie charts. Also how I don’t want people to just pick up litter and make the world beautiful, also I want people who don’t know the full extent of littering and it's effects, to learn that. If you want to see my second blog post go here.

There is many companies in the, making the world beautiful business. Cleaning up litter, recycling, etc. Most of these companies have huge amounts of their own research and can’t stand to see humans destroy the planet. They created organizations and began do actually do something about the problems created by humans. I love the earth and it birthed us, the least we can do is clean up our messes right? People who do clean up the world can be seen here. While I don’t have the funds or the people to clean up the world as much as these groups do, I still try and do my fair share, and with this project I was able to. My agent of change was to brings trash bags with me and walk around the school, people who knew that I had the bags would ask for one then would pick up a bunch of litter on their way home. I gave out 16 trashbags. Here are some of the images I got from the people.

This project was my first ever project where I really handled my time and got my hands dirty as well. I had 2 trash bags filled. I worked very hard on this project. I am honestly very happy Ms. Giknis gave a project like this, one where it actually matters to me. I’m sure every single student has felt like most of the projects they get are stupid, pointless etc. This was the only project where we were able to work and try to fix an problem that affects the student and the people around them. I am proud of all the work I produced. Some of the groups that I researched had lots and lots of work and really spoke to me directly, one of them you can see here. This website talks about the Anti-Litter Campaign. The ALC cleans litter in a completely different way than we are used to. Such as this one. In London, a clever team of designers and environmentalists are "tricking" people into changing their litter habits. For example, instead of dropping cigarettes butts on the ground, people are invited to vote for their favorite football player by places their rubbish in a voting bin. This is an example of how this campaign works and how they clean the world. They add a very fun twist to cleaning litter which really is appreciative.

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