Hayoung's Reflection

This day was the first time to gather volunteers and do the actual trash-pick up. We planned to do it two times this week, however it did not go well. By the pouring rains we had to cancel our Thursday trash-pick up. Therefore, we decided everyone to go at Friday. Gathering volunteers was not that easy. Even we sent out e-mails, we did not get any replies, and we had to ask people personally, because doing it only with our team members does not meet our goal warning other people about the seriousness of trash disposal. By our effort, we pretty much gathered friends especially the 9th graders. They were willing to help us, which was very thankful. Before the working day we took roles who is going to send the e-mails and who is going to ask for equipments (tongs, plastic bags, small buckets to put trashes in). We successfully got the equipments on the day and all the volunteers were here. We told every member of the volunteers which type of trash (plastics, papers,  ) they are going to pick, because we need to analysis them. Then, to make it more efficiently, we divided in two groups first group going to left side of the school (sideways where Emily's Café is) and the other group went to the peninsula side. I was to find plastic bags, which I collected a lot. Everyone did a great job on it even it rained a little. Especially the Emily's Café group, they did collected a lot of disposed trashes. By gathering all the trashes, we found out that we had collected plastic bags, other plastic stuffs, and paper (mostly cigarettes) the most. I noticed that it might come out this way because there are many Chinese people eating stuff in plastic bags and they normally just trash them on the ground. Also there are many many people who smokes, that those people just dispose them on the ground because they think it is small and unimportant. For our next trash-pick up, we should check the weathers first; divide people with at least one member that is good at pushing other people to work hard; and setting the picking up place more precisely (it was a bit confusing where to stop). Lastly, I felt that the amount of trashes have decreased than last year, and I am very proud that Green Police had made it! And want to do better jobs later on. :)