My name is Melanie Chavarin and I'm a freshman at CSULA. In my English we had to make something out of trash.  I gathered some trash that I found at my house and tried making a snowman(: I found a can, broken chopsticks, half a lemon, banana peel, and newspaper. I used the can as the body, the lemon for the head, the broken chopsticks as the arms, the banana peel for the hat, the newspaper as its scarf and i drew a smile and eyes with a marker. I tried my best and after I finished making it I found it funny that I had used trash but realized that trash is reusuable and can be used to make other things. I had fun doing this project especially because I used trash that was usual for an assignment, but it was a learning experience.

Super Girl Guitar :)

Hello my name is Kadi Nsona, and I'm a Cal State LA student. I have here a Guitar that I made out of a big box that used to be filled with donuts and as well I've used toilet paper rolls, feathers, cotton, yarn strings, bobby pins, and a hair clip. This project was a very fun experience for me because I never thought I can turn trash into something creative. Parts of the items that I used are 100% recyclable but I'll be honest and say that it wasn't going to a recycling bin it's mostly just thrown away with other trash. That really is an eye opener for me because why throw away something that we can reuse again?.   I chose to make a guitar because I've always wanted to be a Rockstar and it was awesome creating it as well.

Hey i caught some!!....Trash?

     Hello!! My name is Francisco Carrillo, I'm a freshman at CSULA and I'm in class Eng 95 with Ms Hernandez. I made a boat out of water bottles, batteries, tongue depressor, kabob stick and paper. All these items are trash that my family and me use on a daily bases. However, although if put together this trash can be made into art we still should recycle and help the environment. The reason why i chose to make a boat is because there are boats out in the ocean that are fishing but once they look in there nets they find more trash than actual fish. The trash you see in my picture is found countless of times in the ocean and city. We have to all take a stand and start taking care of our environment and watch what we throw away to make sure it is dispose of properly.

Desk Organizer

             My name is Jessika Rivas. I am a freshman in CSULA. Seeing how our world tears apart is an impaction of the world because we are so many and yet can cant do nothing for our world to get better. In class we are doing an assignment to think about our environment and see how we can reduce, reuse recycle. Picking up trashing was easy but thinking about how can I help the environment wasn’t so easy. I saw my water bottles and said plastic hurts animals how I can avoid that. But then I started to cut them in half and went on YouTube and I saw a lot of good ideas but one that I liked was a desk organizer. It looked like a place where I can put a pencils and other of my school materials. And then I started to put clothes that I was planning to throw away. I did four more and it looked like a desk organizer. This is a good idea because you can reuse the water bottles and use it to keep your materials clean and organized. I learned that it’s really cute and helpful and you can reuse it and help the animals be safer. This theme can relate to the class because I can teach them how to make them and more people can help the environment.

Hello everyone reading this my name is Rajah Marquez and I am writing about a project I had to do in my English 95 class. The project consisted of making art out of trash. I had gotten my trash from the park near my house. I gathered everything before deciding what I wanted to make. What I gathered was mostly was bags of chips such as takis, hot cheetos, and a new type of doritos. I also found straws and matches. I decided to make a scenery of a camping site. I cut the takis to make and used the outside to make a night sky and the inside of the bag to make stars,used doritos make to make a greenery below it, then I cut the straws to make people, I used the match box to cut fire wood, then cut the hot cheetos bag to make fire.

I learned that there is a lot of trash in our streets of LA and probably many other places. If this trash isnt picked up it then goes to the sewer and sooner or later the ocean. We as humans need to be mindful of our world and what can happen if we use our world as a dump. The theme of my art was to try to get people to realize our world is for us to use for the good not the bad we can go camping for example, but dont forget to clean up after yourself!! :)

The BUS!!!

Hi my name is Erika Martinez I'm a freshman @CSULA. I made a bus out of a juice box and bottle caps and used paper. We need to acknowledge the idea of recycling around our house and our lives. We should reuse paper if we use the back of it and instead of throwing out the juice box’s and bottle caps we can recycle them and help the environment and also make money just by recycling and also help out mother earth we live in. The reason I decide to make a bus out of this reusable Martials that I found in my kitchen house, is that the bus are hurting out environment and also humans and animals because of the fossil fuels it release and burn the process of making a bus run. We should create a more environmentally friendly transportation way so we could be healthy and also help the environment be better. We might not know it but this kills carbon dioxide around us. We need to fix this problem as soon as possible so we stop killing mother Erath and stop global warming. There are better ways of transportation is just that we need to find the ways of getting from one place to another and making bus that are better and wont hurt earth. I feel like this project made me get a better way of recycling and also the way that transpiration is killing the would we live in. 

Greetings, from Brittney Avila and Jessica Guerrero. We both attend California State University, Los Angeles and we are currently freshman. We decided to visit the central business district, which features sightseeing opportunities, many of the city's major arts institutions, sports facilities and much more. Also known as Downtown Los Angeles. As we walked through the center of attraction, we collected bottles, cups, chip bags, cigarette packages and paper. It was very disturbing to see the amount of trash on every corner. While we were picking up trash, a very nice man acknowledged us and told us we were doing a very beautiful job cleaning the community. It felt good for the both of us knowing that what we were doing was bringing joy to others. After we collected a decent amount of trash, we went home and decided to build Downtown Los Angeles with the items we collected. We chose Downtown because it is the home to our city.We feel our home should be clean and well taken care of  for our own health and well being. By keeping our community clean and recycling, we believe we can inspire other people to do the same. All it takes is one step to make a difference. We hope our message gets across and people begin to take care of their own home and community.