Littering: Should We Go To Clean Up America?

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Rachel and Colton live in a small house down the road from the school. On the way to school, Colton was eating and threw his wrapper out the window.
“Stop littering Colton.” said Rachel.
“ Why?” asked Colton. While he was driving to the school.
“ Because its trashing our community.” said Rachel.
“So you're trying to convince me to stop littering?” asked Colton. While parking the car in the school parking lot.
“ Colton we should convince everyone to stop littering, because of the causes it does to our community.” said Rachel. Sitting waiting for the bell to ring.
“ So if everyone works together we can clean up the community?” said Colton. Opening the car door about to get out.
“ Yes!” said Rachel. Grabbing the door handle.
“ So let get started
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Sadly, littering has become too common in the community as people have lost the ability of responsibility. People need to guide other people letting them know how littering destroys our community. Because young adults tend to litter in the United States, the Redwater community should design a program of volunteers to clean up America.
However, littering has became a huge problem in the modern society. Everyone has littered it is a bad habit we all have by throwing our trash on the ground and letting the wind catch it to blew away. Everyone knows how wrong it is but we skip over that and do it anyways. Many people don't realize what littering does to our community. “ The findings from our research indicate that litter and littering remains an important national issue ( Schultz and Stein ).” “ Down the years many of our Americans have started to litter in our community turning America into a
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“Littering tracts rodents in the community due to all the trash. (Rea 117).” “ Littering causes health problems to the people (Rea 117).” Litter on the ground kills plants and animals. All that it takes is for an animal to get stuck in a harmful piece of litter. “The community suffers paying millions of dollars to just clean up the community(“ Must Our” ).” “Americans don't understand how much littering in the community cost just to clean up their trash (“ Must Our” ).” There are many solutions to stop our community from looking like a trash can. “A free nonprofit organization helping stop the littering in the community (“ Must Our” ).” That means many people can volunteer to help clean up our community. “ Provide recycling stations in the community (Rea 120).” This can help littering by making people use the recycling stations.” The more people that we get involved to help clean our community (Rea 121).” “ The more groups we have to lend a hand and clean up the community (Rea 120).” “ The community groups can pick different areas in the community to clean up every month. ( Rea 120).” To help clean up our community

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