Over the weekend, I along with other students from SHS cleaned up litter from a creek for National River Clean Up Day. We picked up garbage that was scattered on the floor for 3 hours. The purpose of this is to prevent the ecosystem from being hurt by garbage. Animals could eat the garbage mistaking it for food, or it might not decompose. Most of the garbage was small plastic bags and fragments of soda bottle glass. This was an opportune time to clean the creek because most of the water was gone meaning we could easily clean the bottom. We found some miscellaneous items in there such as a scooter and metal pieces that were lodged in the rocks. I liked this project and hope it happens often so that the creek doesn't become covered in litter. I have seen places in India where the creeks and rivers are covered in garbage, and I hope this doesn't happen to creeks in California.
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