Big+Sweep+Event


 * Wake County Big Sweep: Marsh Creek **

The Big Sweep Event that I went to was hosted by the Blue Phoenix Group of North Carolina. The goal of their group is to clean up the environment surrounding their adopted area. This event was held on a small rural bridge where a stream passed underneath. Some of us went around the stream picking up the litter there and some of us went on the other side of the bridge into the woods to pick up trash from there as well. My group went into the woods and cleaned up an area that we inferred was to be used to burn trash. From there we picked up many glass bottles along with scraps of Styrofoam, gasoline and paint cans. Some other weird things we found was a car door and a television. There were a little more than 20 people who showed up for this specific event and collectively we removed at least 40 garbage bags full of trash and recyclables from the environment.



What I learned from this experience was about how much unnecessary and deliberate littering their is in our environment. I mean someone went out of their way to make a huge trash pile, pour gasoline on it and set it on fire. Through events like this people can learn how dirty our community actually is and how much work there is needed to be done for the environment.