By Levon Mix
An epidemic is sweeping across the ground of Windsor High School. Over the course of a few years trash has began to pile up all over the campus, making it look like a hurricane came through and tossed the garbage cans all over the place. Now in my senior year, I have seen this issue grow more and more every year.
People keep saying that the problem is that there aren't enough garbage cans around campus, but the thing is, there is one in every place that there is a group of people. But the real problem is, that the kids around the campus really don't care if their trash makes it into the trash can or not. When I was at the last Senate Forum one of the big topics that came up, was the trash issue on campus, The ironic thing is, that some of the people that brought up the topic are the ones that I see standing next to a trash can with garbage all around it, and no one does anything about it. They just walk away when the bell rings.
When I went out to film my anti-littering video for the morning announcements, we forgot to grab a bag or a food wrapper from home, so we thought that we would have to film it another day; but that we found a bag and a wrapper that someone got from an off campus retailer, and we were able to finish the video. When we went out to film the video it was only after break, but after lunch there is a lot more trash littering the ground around the trash cans.
Through my eyes there is only one way to stop this growing epidemic: get the kids on campus to throw their garbage away. I don't know how to do it but we as a school needs to think of ideas that can motivate or make it so that the kids want to throw their trash away. Maybe we can have a random person that walks around the campus and give some kind of ticket to a person that he/she sees throwing away their trash, and there will be a different person to hand out ticket each day, so that people won't just look for just one person every day. But I digress -- the problem is that we as a school need to unite and fight this with full force and stop this so that future students will have a clean campus to enjoy and be the home of their education.
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