It was a beautiful, breezy morning, perfect for a creek cleanup. After enjoying one (or three) delicious donuts, we put on safety goggles and gloves, and grabbed some trash bags. We were ready to go! The trail seemed pretty clean at first, but the more we walked, the more trash we saw. Especially common were cigarette butts, broken glass from beer bottles, and food packaging like juice bottles, yogurt cups, ziploc baggies, and a boba cup. One of our weirder finds was several yards of fishing wire tangled around a tree branch. In total we collected a whopping 13.69 pounds of trash! Afterwards, volunteers discussed why they were there and why they thought the cleanup was important. Reasons ranged from local to global; Carolyne Geng said she wanted to encourage people to visit the creek more, while Riley Chou cited the Great Garbage Patch, and how our little actions may lead to massive consequences. Indeed, our local action was just one step towards a global vision of a cleaner earth.
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