Trash-Or-Treat+Big+Sweep

On Saturday, October 28th I attended the trash-or-treat big sweep at the Walnut Creek Wetlands Center. The purpose of this clean up was to raise awareness for the amount of pollution that we do not give much thought, and to clean up a nature/biking trail that was property of the wetlands center. We had three different bags, one for recycling, one for glass, and one for trash. During the cleanup, my small group filled up a couple of bags of trash, a couple bags of recycling, and one bucket of glass items. We ended up finding a great deal of things that nobody would ever expect to find in the woods. We found four tires, a scooter, and a whole lot of over interesting things. This event has really opened my eyes to the amount of trash there is in our every day lives and how it has become so normalized that we typically do not notice it anymore. I encourage someone who has not gone to one of these cleanups to try it, as it is really eye opening.