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I went to Lake Wheeler Park for my action plan, to clean up trash around the park and the lake. There I was given two bags, one for trash, and one for recycling. As I walked along the entire park, I found plastic, water bottles, cigarettes, candy wrappers, bottle caps, and many other other waste. I also had to tally, on a paper that I was given, the number of times I picked up a specific things, such as bottle caps. At first, I couldn't find much trash, but as I started to roam around the entire park, I found all kinds of different things, and I found interesting how most of the trash would all be gathered in some specific areas. At first, I though the park was very well maintained, but then as I found more and more waste, I realized that regardless, people still continue to to liter. This connects to environmental science because it shows how much air and water pollution we have even though we have organizations like Big Sweep who continue to clean up our environment. We still have so many people littering and polluting the environment, especially in parks and lakes like such.