Fresh Air

While I was working on a project for Biology I discovered some ridiculous facts. I had to do a comic strip on an a current environmental issue and I choose to do this thing called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch which is a garbage pile in the ocean filled with approximately 3.5 million tons of trash (roughly the size of Texas). Two things really stuck out to me when researching this, one that 80% of this garbage pile is plastic and two that less then 5% of plastic is recycled globally! Knowing these two things have been eating me alive at night with ways that I could try to help. I think I wanna try to set up a Green Club at school with about five main ideas that have been spiraling in my head. One is to set up a recycling system throughout the school with creating recycling bins that are easily obtained and find a way to get it a recycling plant. An idea occurred that maybe we could make some money off of this because I know back in the old days that you could receive money by bringing in glass bottles and such. This would hopefully help with the transportation costs. My second idea is to create tiny projects on things like what you can and can't recycle and helpful tips on ways to improve your daily habits so you can become more Eco friendly and display them on posters around the school. My third idea was inspired by this commercial http://entenza.com/demand which makes me want to try to raise money and either send it to an organization that helps with clean energy or take it into our own hands and possibly plant new trees. These are rough ideas but some desire in me really wants to make this happen. I know this would be a ton of work and require a lot of help but my goal is for this to work out and help with our Earth a little. I mean it's my home..