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Trash Out On The Street Research Paper

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When you drop your Doritos bag or In-N-Out cup, or even a whole Domino's Pizza box out onto the street or sidewalk; you may not think much of it. You might not even think about it again. Because once it’s out of sight, it's out of mind. These things you throw out onto the street can take hundreds, thousands, and even a million years to decompose. Although people don’t dump all their trash in the street; a lot of them throw a few pieces each time, and eventually, it all just accumulates into large strips of trash alongside the street. All this trash in the streets has the potential to cause detrimental effects to our environment. In efforts to reduce the amount trash out in the streets, my partner Erick and I decided to pick up the trash. Unsure of …show more content…

As Erick and I were picking up trash, many people would ask what we were doing, and why. Our response was “We are saving the world.” When other people see someone doing something good, it usually influences them in doing that good thing, or at least gets them thinking. As we were trying to dig under the bush for the pile of cups in the back, some of our peers decided to drop their things and volunteer to help us clean up for a bit. Something about seeing your peers engaging in something good to help the environment encourages them to participate. Educating people on the effects of littering and what it can do to the environment can be a major start in preventing all this accumulating trash in the streets. Letting people know that just one piece of trash will eventually build up and could make them think twice about stuffing the tree with their bag of chips. Or that just one battery or plastic bag or bottle cap we found lying on the back street of Woodley, could have been enough to kill an endangered animal both on land and in the

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