On the 3rd of July in the afternoon, we went to see the movie W.A.L.L.I. E. The main character is a trash compacting robot that cleans the barren-trash covered earth that humans have abandoned over 700 years ago.After that we went to the South Salt Lake Freedom Festival. There was a large field that everyone sat on in front of a stage. There were about 1500+ people there. There was a magnificent firework show. But after, me and my mom stayed while the rest of the family went home. We were part of a group of volunteers that were going to clean up the trash.
I looked around,
And was appalled,
It vaguely resembled Wallie’s environment.
Trash was strewn everywhere. It looked like everyone had collected as much junk as possible and dumped it there on purpose! It was everywhere! As in there was a coating on the ground!!!! There were plastic bags and cotton candy sticks and old glows sticks and pizza boxes and water bottles, and silly string, and toilet paper (?!), and ticket stubs, and shattered glass, and paper napkins, and empty soda bottles. And lots more. It was disgusting!!! It took forever to pick it all up.
It amazing how much junk humans can generate!
Just so much more inspiration for recycling.
3 comments:
What a great experience - I'm sure that impression will stay with you.
This is so ironic! It would make a great letter to the editor of the Deseret News.
Love Grandpa's idea. You should make it a letter to the editor.
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