Katherine- Journal entry- November 12,2020

Today I was walking around my neighborhood with my little sister, suddenly I saw that in the garbage dump there was a lot of garbage accumulated on the ground, since many times people throw away badly tied bags and the garbage ends up coming out of the plastic bags. The most worrying thing is that this dump is near the river and this garbage lying on the ground is not picked up by the garbage truck because it is not inside the bags and ends up being washed by the rain into the river. This is why whenever I see the garbage on the ground I decide to pick it up and put it in a bag so the garbage truck can take it away. It is very sad to see that many people do not care to observe what happens with the garbage in our community, this is why I want to be different by teaching my little sister how important it is to take care of the environment by doing small works such as collecting garbage. I am an IB student who has developed empathy towards the environment from a very young age and now I love to help nature by doing different actions, maybe many people do not bother to clean up their communities but if we all managed to do it it would be a big change our environment.