This is Kid Governor’s Cabinet Member Nava, and today is Global Recycling Day! My platform, Reducing Littering, is perfect to focus on today as we celebrate! Specifically, the 3rd point in my plan incorporates recycling: “Inviting 5th graders to decorate trash and recycling bins in their schools to promote clean school environments”. Decorating these bins can encourage students to use them!
Did you know that according to the Environmental Protection Agency, the average American throws away 4.4 to 5 pounds of trash and litter every day? That’s way too much!
To reduce this, we must start recycling more, limit our trash use, and pick up trash and throw it where it needs to go!
You can even create art out of trash! You can make a paper flower or even a sculpture. You can also ask others to stop littering, and remind them not to put trash in recycling bins or recyclable items in trash bins!
What you do to make our Earth clean saves animals, us, and almost every living organism! Please try to recycle in order to keep our world clean and safe.
Thanks and have a happy Global Recycling Day!
Nava Ekstrand
Kid Governor’s Cabinet Member