Pick It Up!

Pick Up Trash you Find!

   Whether it be your trash or someone else's, pick it up. In order to improve the health of our environment including not just our wetlands but also our water supply, our fellow animals, and the coral reefs, humans need to be willing to pick up even a wrapper. 

   Garbage and human waste has increase exponentially over the course of generations continually being added to the waste pile that is becoming this Earth we live on. 

    Many species are suffering from this garbage whether it be poisoning from the mercury of it or being choked to death when consuming or being caught in it. One species in particular is the California Condor which nearly went into extinction from the influx of human trash that polluted its native habitat.

    Another example are the sea turtles who get caught in fishing line, plastic bags, and other suck strangling trash. But they themselves are not just strangled by it but also ingest it. 

    The worst offenders to the pollution problem are plastic products because they don't break down. The majority of garbage found however has been in the cigarette bud category. Stop flinging your used cigarettes all over the place. Dispose of them in designated trash areas for cigarettes. 

    Every species has value, intrinsic or instrumental. We rely on many species for our resources to stay healthy and to be available for us to use. It is as the butterfly effect, if you remove one player from the trophic structure that is our food web, it affects everything else and could crumble in upon itself. 

    How to help? Get involved! There are many opportunities to do beach cleanups, Park clean ups, and road trash clean ups aren't just for convicts! If you don't have time for that you can still do your part by picking up any trash debris you do come across. Other ways to get involved is to have reusable grocery bags, reusable straws, have your own water bottles or coffee cups, etc. We can chip away at this worldwide garbage problem to save the Earth that we live on and share with other beautiful species.