Trash

Everyone nowadays is talking about cleaner surroundings, cleaner air, cleaner water. I'm not going to give a solution that will instantly clean the world but I will give a small tip on how we can do our part to become part of the solution and not become part of the problem.

When you eat a piece of candy, what do you do with the wrapper? Whatever you do with it, don't throw it on the ground! If there's no garbage can around, put it in your pocket or you bag and throw it away later on in the day when there is one around.

For those of you who smoke, when you open a new box of cigarettes, you take off the plastic wrapping right? What do you do with it? Please don't throw it on the floor! Again, if there's no garbage can, keep it for a while and throw it away later on. Now, when you're done smoking a stick, you're left with a cigarette butt. You can't really put that in your pocket. If you can find a way to dispose of it properly and not just flick it away to the street or off the side of a building where you might hit someone or hit someone's car (yes, it happened to me), please do. But of course if you can quit smoking altogether, that would not only help the environment, it would also help you!

So I'd like to end with a quote from a Filipino comedian, Leo Martinez, who gives environmental awareness a comedic twist. Ending a sketch about picking up trash he says, "It's not hard to pick up your own trash. Because, you know, if you can, the trash can."