Purpose:

The world is in great need of a big cleanup and starting from your community around us, you can change the world. Our purpose is to make life on land better, to benefit animals and people, and to improve the climate around us.

Overview:

Students from the Sterling School, Charles Townes Center and a teacher's son are starting a small group to go around in pick up trash in their communities. By this little impact, others will be influenced to start their own group. They hope to accomplish as much as they can to make a world a better place.

Why?

According to SCDHEC, “South Carolina generates about 4.2 million tons of this type of trash/garbage in a typical year.” [!] That is only in South Carolina alone! According to saveonenergy, " “The average American tosses 4.4 pounds of trash every single day." That might not seem like a lot, but there are 323.7 million people living in the United States. In total that amounts to: 1,424,280,000 pounds of trash, to put that into perspective that's the weight of over 4,000 blue whales! And that is just the trash we properly dispose of. We are trying to do as much as we can to help this problem and you can too.

How?

You too can help by simply not littering or if you want to make a bigger, better change for the world you can volunteer to cleanup litter yourself or even with other people. If that may be too hard for you to do and you want to do more, you can get a litter tracker app like the Greenville litter tracker app. For more information on how to help, click the links below.

Links

• https://www.epa.gov/landfills
• https://scdhec.gov/environment/land-and-waste-landfills
• https://www.greenvillecounty.org/LitterPrevention/
• https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/various-littering-facts.php
• https://litteritcostsyou.org/9-interesting-facts-and-statistics-about-littering/

10 Facts About Litter

• Litter can decrease property value by 15%!
• 11.5 BILLION dollars are spent each year cleaning litter!!!
• Some litter may stay only for a few months but others will stay upon the face of the earth forever, an example would be tires.
• Litter kills millions upon millions of animals every year most of them marine animals and sea birds
• Litter decreases litter quality which ultimately leads to use of more fertilizers therefore decreasing litter quality further
• 50% of littered items are cigarette butts
• The most common object found during litter clean-up is fast food litter
• most people who would deliberately litter are those between 18-34 years old
• sources of litters could be motorists, pedestrians, uncovered trucks, and boaters
• Litter does cause severe accidents