Cleaning up the Community ~ LS, NC, NZ & KJ

Outside in a Grand Rapids, Michigan coffee shop a bunch of people got together to clean up litter. According to Michigan there was more than 1 million pounds of trash, think how much trash that is. Thanks to all those people who helped our community stay clean and stay healthy. Miss Daphne, the Beverly School custodian said,  "Always keep your community clean."

Beverly is a clean place but not everybody is perfect. Sometimes we can litter BUT that’s ok. If everybody can clean up after themselves, then we will have the cleanest community ever. Like our custodian said above, more people should clean up like her. But it’s not just about throwing everything in the trash. It’s about also recycling if we recycle then we’ll have a better world and community for people and animals to live in. When we throw trash away it goes to a landfill and they burn it.  This smells really bad. If we litter then the trash one day may float or roll all the way to the ocean. Animals are curious and they will die or get sick of they eat a piece of trash because it’s not good for their health. We also drink water so that would just be bad. We should stop littering and make this a better world and community.

If everyone does their part we can build a community without liter, block by block. These blocks are our actions, if everyone picks up trash or throws away their trash it makes it better for the community. So throwing away trash, recycling, and throwing litter away, will be normal in our everyday lives. Miss Daphne said, it is easy to be a cleaner so how about we all pitch in and help! Then, we will build the community where no one litters, they toss their trash, and other things but, if we litter freely than everyone will accept it. We will live in a world where everyone just litters. Just think to yourself when you litter, “what if everyone did that?”

We should recycle more. About 15 percent of all trash is recycled. But we can get the percentage up. Right now Michigan does have a trash problem,  but we can fix that.  The problem is also that people do not recycle much in all of America. Out of 260 million tons of plastic 10 percent goes to the ocean which is incredible. This shows that people do need to recycle more.