Ellis'+Wheel+Clean

On Saturday, March 24, David Childress and I attended the Big Sweep clean-up at Lake Wheeler. We were given tools to pick up trash, and we patrolled around the lake picking up any trash that we saw. It was eye opening seeing how much trash was left around, from things like cigarette butts to chip bags. It really solidifed the idea that we need to be doing more about litter and pollution, because even places that try really hard to minimize pollution (such as Lake Wheeler) still have to deal with a large amount of it. Perhaps if more money was focused on prevention of pollution, rather than the clean-up, we would see less pollution in beautiful areas like this one.