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My action plan was at the Walnut Creek Wetland Center for the Big Sweep Trash or Treat event on October 28th. First, we were split into a few groups and each group went to different creeks near the wetland center. There, we had to pick up all the trash such as plastic, glass, bottles, and cans that were found in the water and plants. There was a lot of trash in the area and all that garbage probably got there because there is a school and a neighborhood right next to these creeks. So a lot of people around the area have been polluting these ecosystems. I came across lots of trash and especially plastic. We also encountered waste from food and beverages. In one particular area of the creek, we found many pieces of glass. The most interesting thing that we encountered while picking up all this trash, was a mattress. There was a whole mattress near the trees inside the creek. Though the ecosystem was so polluted we were able to get at least some of it cleaned and less polluted as a team. This relates to Environmental Science because all this trash that we found, are very big pollutants to the ecosystem and to the environmental in general. They show a very negative effect on our environment in many ways and we were able to decrease this negative effect at Big Sweep as much as we could. Plastic and glass were one of the major trash we found and these substances are very harmful to the animals living in those creeks. They could consume them thinking they are food and then get harmed. It also adds on to global warming and harms humans as well as we are around polluted air and water. So it is our responsibility to take care of the environment and keep it as clean as possible.