Big+Sweep+(oct.+28)

The Big Sweep event is a project to help clean up the environment little by little, one step at a time. On Saturday, October 28, I went to the wetland center to help pick up trash around the creek by Carnage Middle School. While I was there, I picked up several shoes, bottles, beer cans, and more, inlcuding the skull of some sort of animal. The other volunteers had also found buckets, tires, and other car parts. The quantity of garbage collected was disturbing and awful. I was shocked by the overwhelming amount of trash that there was. After the 3 hours of collecting tennis balls, shoes, and much more, I realized the importance of people paying more attention to their environment. I realized that no matter how often the group of people from 86it work to clean up the area around them, unless we all do something, not only in the U.S., but all over the world, the environment will not improve. This event relates to our class because we not only went out and cleaned the streams, but little by little we are trying to improve the quality of the habitat for organisms that live there as well as fix what we, as humans, have already damaged.