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On Saturday, April 14th, I volunteered at Walnut Creek Wetland Park's Big Sweep to help pickup trash in the area. We were given gloves, trash grabbers, trash bags, buckets for glass, and a recording sheet to document the different kinds of trash we picked up. From 9 AM to 12PM we walked on different sides of the street and found many objects such as tires (both used and unused), a toilet, a couch, and an old school television. There were smaller things too, such as cigar wrappers, fast food trash bags, glass bottles and broken glass shards. It is depressing the amount of trash people throw into the environment when they could donate things like furniture to those less fortunate, and could throw away their smaller trash in a trash can nearby. After picking up and disposing of the trash, we listened to the head of the Walnut Creek Wetland Park talk about how to properly dispose of various harmful substances. local fire department and grease disposal companies on how to properly get rid of grease and other harmful substances. This is related to environmental science because it helped to reduce water pollution and ground pollution as well as began to restore the natural balance of the surrounding ecosystem in the Wetland.