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My Ecology Project Analysis

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For my ecology project I was picking up litter. I went to Giant rock which is a place that a lot of people/ tourist go to visit or camp. I chose this place, because I noticed all of the litter when I went one day with my family. I started picking up trash on October 27. Trash is a huge problem on earth, and it is very easy to help this problem.

Littering has always been a huge problem on earth, no matter the place. This doesn’t just hurt us, it also hurts the environment and the animals around us. Even though the numbers are still rising there is about 5.25 trillion pieces of debris on the ocean. At Least 100 million marine mammals are killed each year from plastic pollution. Local landfills are currently filling. If this happens the trash know takes longer to get to the final place which means that more greenhouse Gas emissions are in use. This causes global warming since the atmosphere traps heat radiating from earth to space. …show more content…

A problem that I encountered was transportation. My parents aren’t always able to take me places, because of their jobs but I got a ride there from one of my family members. Another problem that I encountered was that I wasn’t able to go to the Morongo preserve like I first planned on doing. I planned on going to the Morongo preserve on earth day, but I couldn’t get a permission slip signed to go. Another problem for me was time management. What I learned from this was that I need to stop procrastinating, because toward the end of my project. Time was my only problem.

What I learned about myself during this project is that littering is a huge problem. Some of us do it without paying attention and some of us do it because we are just lazy. It really isn’t that hard to put trash where it belongs. I need to pay more attention to the long term effects of what I do are. I may say that it’s just one piece of trash, but I’m really just adding to a way bigger

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