“There are even drains outside on the curb! When someone comes to your house to work on the yard, they put fertilizer, which is poisonous. When the rain collects fertilizer, it goes to the river and hurts the fish living there.”
~ Grayson O’Daniel
“R.R.R. is important because it can reduce the amount of pollution. The Rs stand for Reuse, Reduce, and Recycle. Reuse means to use the same over and over again. Reduce, just reduce trash. Recycle, you should know what that means. Well, fine, it means to reuse your trash. I hope I’ve convinced you to save the environment.”
~ Brandon Lloyd Smith
“Save the planet! By turning off the water while you’re brushing your teeth helps a lot.”
~ Noah Rogers
“You can also save electricity by turning off lights. Fun fact: you can save up to 10% electricity by just turning off lights.”
~ Kellen Gornall
“We all need to do our parts and make the Earth healthier and greener.”
~ Tyler Coleman
“We should stop making power plants, because the power plants produce steam and that will make acid rain. Acid rain is when chemicals get in rain and that is part of water pollution and air pollution. If acid rain gets into ponds or rivers, the fish and the frogs will get sick and some of them will die.”
~ Harshid Balachandar
“Millions of people take trees to turn into paper and throw the paper away instead of recycling it. There is one bad effect of that, paper isn’t getting recycled so you should recycle paper.”
~ Srinivas Chilakamarri
“We need to stop pollution and we can stop now! We can use bikes more or if we need to, the buses! If we don’t stop pollution, some of the animals might not survive!”
~ Cole Spankowski
“There is a big chunk of trash in the sea as big as Texas and it is making the animals sick, so make sure that you do not throw trash in the water.”
~ Roman Hargis
“When you are in the restroom and you wash your hands, make sure you unroll just enough paper towels to dry your hands.”
~ Seena Cuddapah
This article originally appeared in the April issue of the EAST COBBER magazine, on page 18. Click HERE to access the digital edition.
