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A Better Community

The narrator's daughter initiates a recycling effort by setting up a plastic collection bag at home, leading to increased awareness of plastic use. They visit the Recycle Center together, noticing a cleaner street and community involvement in litter reduction. This initiative highlights the broader impact of recycling and community engagement beyond just plastic waste.

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A Better Community

The narrator's daughter initiates a recycling effort by setting up a plastic collection bag at home, leading to increased awareness of plastic use. They visit the Recycle Center together, noticing a cleaner street and community involvement in litter reduction. This initiative highlights the broader impact of recycling and community engagement beyond just plastic waste.

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A Better Community

My daughter brought a note home. I looked at the note and


smiled. “So we will have a recycling center,” I said. She started to
explain why it is important to recycle. “I know,” I said, but I don’t have
time.

She thought of a way to recycle. She set up a bag in the kitchen.


She said it would be for plastic. We would put
plastic in there. Then once a month we would
take the plastic to the Recycle Center. She said
that plastic takes us lots of energy to make. And
she said that it is hard for the environment when
people throw it out.

It seemed like a good idea. But then the


bag got full. In one week we had filled it with
empty plastic bottles.

My daughter said we should look at what we use. We are using


too much plastic. So we looked for ways to use less plastic.

I told my neighbor about this. She liked the idea. She started
keeping her plastic in a bag. We all went together to the Recycle Center
on the first Saturday. We brought our plastic.

When we got there, we saw many bags.


People had brought lots of trash. They
brought paper and metal, too. “Now that
we have this center, it is easier to
recycle,” said my neighbor.

When we were walking back from the


Recycle Center, I saw a change. The
street was cleaner. Most days I see trash in the
street. People litter. But there was no litter today. My daughter said
that another class had “adopted” the street. They were picking up litter
there and taking it to the Recycle Center.

I said this is really big. It is about more than plastic. It is about lots
of changes.

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