Write a 3 page paper on “A Litter Experience Goes A Long Way”.
First you may enlist the services of others to complete this experience, than locate a one-half mile stretch of roadway and pick up (use heavy plastic bags) all the litter you and your friends can find along one side of the roadway. Once you have picked up all of the trash along the roadway chosen, lay it out and put it into the following categories: 1) plastic, 2) paper, 3) aluminum, 4) glass (these are recyclable) 5) non-recyclable. Now estimate the percentage of the total for each category of litter (by weight or volume). Did you find anything that you could use if you wanted to? What was it and what use could it be put to?