Angier+Rd.+Sweep

Grace Ledford 2A

I worked with the Chairman of Environmental Beauty at the Fuquay- Varina Garden Club to help clean up a 2-mile stretch of Angier Road. The Garden Club does this clean-up once a quarter and works with the Wake County Department of Transportation for supplies. They are provided with trash bags, safety vests, and litter grabbers. The county then comes once the sweep is over to collect the bags of trash. From this experience, I learned that littering is still a prevalent issue in our society, despite the laws and disparagement of it. While cleaning we found many different objects, ranging from cigarette butts to fast food trash to pieces of clothing and shoes. When looking at these pieces of trash subjectively, it is extremely easy for animals to mistake them as food and die. This clean-up relates to the AP Environmental Science curriculum because it correlates to all of the vocabulary and studies on pollution. For example, people in cars are the non-point source of the litter we cleaned up, we served as the pollution clean-up and the laws in place exercise pollution prevention.