Nicodemus Wilderness Project -- Global Registry of Apprentice Ecologists

Living in a world where trash is an every day thing that seems to never stop, can be frustrating. Listening to people complain about the problem is even worst in my opinion. Why?? The reason is simple, donâ€™t whine do something about itâ€¦. That is what I like to say and do. In the past five years I have helped in clean ups and volunteered at church recycles at home, but I decided to finally take it to the next level. Organizing trash pick ups seemed so easy when it came to my head.

One afternoon on the bus I noticed that our neighborhood had a lot of trash and decided to organize a clean up. so a week after I had started my school food drive, I started my clean up project. I worked my way up the ladder in order to have a place for us to meet. I made some simple flyers and got them printed out at school, I feel very lucky since the secretaries were so very kind and made copies for me. every day after school would come back to my side of town and pass the flyers out to the students of this area. I also contacted the city of Houston to find out where I would drop off the trash.

Once I felt I had everything ready I realized I needed water for them. At first I contacted a water company but it was too late the date was approaching and there was no time for that. Instead I bough water for us. For my final step I contacted the city of Houston volunteering coordinator in order to make sure the volunteers got the hours they would deserve. The day after that I took the trash to the dumpster and sent the e-mails to everyone thanking them for their hard work. Soon after that I received their certificates and passed them out but by that time my schools food drive was reaching its end and it was time for me to deliver the boxes of food to the Houston food bank.

The reason why I picked trash clean-ups is because of what it can do. Trash is a large part of global warming and leaving it there will contaminate the soil which will then prevent trees from growing in the area. None the less if the people donâ€™t stop littering in that area our work will be pointless. In order to spread the word I talked to some of the students that walk through that area to remind them to spread the word. â€œDonâ€™t mess with Texasâ€ is once of my favorite slogans to anyone who litters.