I'm now writing this blog for my Journalism class entitled: Opinion, Editorial and Column Writing. So for the purpose of introducing this blog to my new class I will re-introduce my reason for choosing to blog on water, trash and graffiti. This post will be my Reader's Digest Version, for the longer more in depth version, see my first blog dated: 09/19/2009.
I'm passionate about keeping our environment clean and litter free. That passion ignited when I was nine years old after watching some films in my fourth grade class (in the early 1970s) at Laguna Road Elementary School in Fullerton, CA. I was horrified as I saw the way that trash affected the ducks and fish in the lakes. I really wanted to do my part, as much as a nine year old could. With the introduction to cans, aluminum, plastics, paper plates and the like, our world was truly becoming disposable and with that meant more trash. Obviously if people were encouraged to live life on the microwaveable-run, grab food and go, they were also starting to toss the trash where ever they felt like it. Surely they don't want the paper bags and plastic folks and knives to smell up and clutter their vehicles. So with the progression of modern fast food technology along with the packaging to go with it, came the increasing problem of these articles tossed wherever was most convenient to the consumer. Here in So Cal, that could mean anywhere and everywhere someone felt like it.
I welcome your comments to my posts as well as any posts that contain links or suggestions to keeping our environment clean and our land litter free. Please refrain from any polluted language that is considered trashy as we can be passionate without expressing our views in heated expletives. Trust me, I get angry when I see some thoughtless idiot flick his/her cigarette ashes and then for the finale flick the cigarette butt out the car window. Like one police officer told me what he tells a non-law abiding citizen he has pulled over just before he executes the litter ticket, "All the world is NOT your ashtray." Well said, my friend, well said.
Kathy, good start. I like the passionate reason for getting into this topic. I'd love to see some posts (pictures, yes) on that polluted lake at the elementary school. Some before and after shots, too?
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