Recycling + Beach Clean Up - Service

Cleaning up garbage & Recycling

Today after school I went to pick up garbage from the large beach near my house with my friend. I have personally really enjoyed it and would like to go back when I have free time on the weekends. When I was younger I would through garbage on the floor like little plastic bags that they put around straws or water bottle caps without thinking of the consequence it may have on the environment and how it could increase global warming as I am regularly polluting the environment, not recycling my garbage. From now on at my house I’m gonna re-use the plastic water bottles I buy, re-washing them and filling water into them. Also by keeping the plastic bags you get from the supermarket and re-use them for other purposes such as putting my food containers in them to bring to school. I’ve always looked at the garbage on the beach but never once picked them up and put them in the recycling bins as I never thoroughly thought about the harm it causes to the environment and that it wouldn’t affect my life. Over time, I started realizing by reading information online that from me personally not doing anything about the garbage I see laying around, I’m contributing to the world pollution. The garbage on the beach can be dragged by the waves into the sea and potentially kill or harm the sea creatures such as fishes. This is a global issue that many young adults such as myself ignore and never take an interest in but I think we should start, it’s never too late to make a little change in the world. The more people contribute little by little to the cause of stopping pollution it could eventually decrease the issue of global warming that our world is facing more and more everyday. I will try to involve more of my friends in cleaning up the beach near where we all live as we could help keep the beach clean, recycle the plastic we find lying on the beach that never breaks down. If we do it regularly it will over time help with this global issue. Through collaborating with my friend to clean this beach today, I have learnt that even stopping pollution and recycling plastic can be fun and emotionally rewarding as it makes me feel better as a person.