English 101
My
artwork that is based on the trash that I collected from the beach clean-up
resembles my life. I decided to do my art project based on a soccer ball
because soccer is my passion and is something I play on my free time. As I was
walking along the water at Dockweiler beach, I noticed that a lot of people come
to the beach to smoke and throw the remaining part of a cigarette on the sand.
I also notice many burnt cigarettes were coming out from the sea because the
remaining of the cigarettes is flushed into the beach by sewers, or drains. The
majority of trash in the beach was burnt cigarettes and bottle caps. I also notice that even though there are many
trash cans locate along the sidewalks, many people yet decide to not pick after
themselves. They decide that it is better to litter or leave there trash where
they were sitting along the sand, that is including the left over cigarettes.
There are many smokers’ receptacle, safe disposal of cigarettes butts, located
nearly everywhere in the beach, yet I also notice people decide to throw them
away along the beach sand.
The message I am trying to put out there
for people to understand based on my art project which is do not litter. There
are many ways littering can get into our beaches, but if people would take
control of where they throw their trash away, we would not have a big issue of
our sea animals dying because of human’s mistakes not picking up after
themselves. The left over cigarettes left at the beach are a threat to the
wildlife. As I stated, burnt cigarettes
are flushed into the beach by sewers, or drains, so many fishes, birds, whales and other
sea animals could mistake the cigarettes butts as food and will harm them
making them ill or kill them. I think educating people on the choices that they
make is one of the most effective ways to change behavior.
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