Our Earth Is Worth It
CLP Project
Our Mission Statement
Cleaning up the Earth one Gallon at a Time
The earth is dirty with our pollution and littering habits. But we can fix this. Our Earth Is Worth It offers a chance for those who care about their home, community, and environment to engage in cleanup. It encourages people of all ages to go outdoors and capture photographs of the trash filled sights they see, organize a way to clean up nature, and recognize the physical impact they are making.
Those who are involved will have the opportunity to engage in a contest to pick up as many gallons of trash as possible, taking photos of the areas before and after. Participants will help the earth no matter the amount of trash they clean up - one or a hundred gallons. Hopefully, as a larger community we will begin to see an impact and start to change our littering habits as we grow more educated with how our actions affect ourselves and the world.
Why It Matters.
What happens when you throw your empty coffee filter into the trash every morning? The lid to your drink? Do you know where it ends up? Every day, the average individual person throws away around 5 pounds of trash. Out of this, not all of it even ends up in a landfill. If you drive down a highway, the chances that you will see some sort of “trash dump” on the side are surprisingly high. Forests, roads, fields, and many other places are covered with litter from humans. On the other hand, around 1.4 billion pounds of waste ends up in the ocean per year. And those pieces of trash we walk by in the streets, swim by in the oceans, throw mindlessly on the ground, those do not just go away. A fishing line can take up to 600 years to decompose, while only becoming micro plastic at that point. Our Earth is already facing climate change every day and our littering habits as humans make the Earth less enjoyable, not to mention endangers many animals that live in the communities which are being affected.
As citizens of the world we have the ability to take responsibility for our actions and learn more about how the trash we throw away is affecting the world. There are many organizations which are speaking out against climate change and organizations which organize trash pickups. Additionally, we can take further steps to clean up the places we live in by picking up trash in places that we live. The impact that this will have may be small with the individual, but with the whole the impact is immeasurable. It costs no money to clean up trash in your community, but if we do not tackle this issue now it might cost you, us, the world more in the future. I hope to involve people around the country with this cleaning process to make the biggest impact possible. Anyone can be involved - just take a trashback in your home and find a place in your community(which has trash) and clean up! I challenge you to pick up the most gallons of trash as possible. Organize a group with friends, family, anyone and clean up one of the beautiful places in your community. Next, educate people about why this is important. The positive impact our words and actions have can change the world with a butterfly effect. No matter the amount you pick up, even one piece, can make an impact.
