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= Wake County Big Sweep: Raise the Lot =

Raise the Lot is the first-ever fundraiser for Wake County Big Sweep. This is a program that encourages volunteers to remove litter from the environment every fall and spring. This event was held a little corner in Downtown Raleigh, where there are many booths to check out on littering, how to prevent littering and to the wildlife that has been affected from littering. The booth that I worked at was the "Big Sweep Brackets", which are helping little kids make bracelets inform them not to litter, and the "Litter Ranking", that has kids guess the rank of each litter object. Unfortunately, only a minor of visitors were at the event.

What I have learned from this event is that littering can affect the environment, by the danger of a wildlife animal of mistaking it for food, which causes the population of the wildlife animals to decline rapidly. Most of these visitors didn't realize that straws and stirrers ranked number five in the most littered material on earth, yet was surprised me was the kids correctly guessed the cigarettes as the number one ranked litter that has been littered around the world. Through this kind of event, we can teach kids and adults the different ways we affect the environment and how we can prevent these kinds of mistakes when we throw recycled materials away.

Helping the little girl to make a bracelet (I apologize for the hat covering my face)