Big+Sweep+Oct.14

Big Sweep is a prestigious event that takes place many times throughout the year. Here I cleaned up litter from polluted areas of a stream and a surrounding marsh. We not only picked up all the trash from the forest but we sorted it out based on whether it’s recyclable or not. I was surprised by the variety of items we found laying around: from soda cans to gas tanks. In fact, we even spotted a TV which was a hassle to transport. I learned of how polluted a forest can be and how dangerous we make an animal’s habitat. Before I came to this event I only thought you could find this much trash in a place like a landfill. But coming to Marsh creek enlightened me about the pollution the wild life has to succumb to due to humans. This event relates to environmental science because we were cleaning up pollution from the environment itself.