Proposal

For my senior project I am hoping to successfully clean up a location in the Belmont area that is heavily used. There are locations all over where trash just sits around and no body does anything about it. I am hoping that I can organize a group of volunteers, along with P.J. Gallagher, in order to make a place usable again. This idea came to me over the summer when running throughout the area. Some of the trails and playgrounds were unusable because of all the litter surrounding it. I am hoping that with this project i can bring people back to Belmont, which was once a happening place that is now a place that people fear to go to because of all the beer bottles and cigarette butts that lye on the ground. In doing so I hope to use pictures of before and after to demonstrate the effectiveness of my project. In order to make my project work I am going to need a lot of volunteers. To obtain these volunteers i would like to put fliers the school and the community. I also would like to buy a section of the Springfield Sun for an article asking for volunteers to help me with my project. The newspaper article is a stretch because of the cost it might be. Prior to creating the fliers i will need to make a set date on which to go out to the park to clean up. I also will need to get a permit from the city to make sure it is okay for me to be there on the date and time i choose. Materials will need to be gathered to make things possible. Paper, staples, a permit, rubber gloves, a lot of people and hours of planning, preparing, and cleaning will be needed to make this event possible. For this project I am researching the effects of litter on our environment. I choose this topic because i am very passionate about our environment. Seeing litter or watching people litter makes me upset knowing the costs of what is happening to our world do to litter. One bottle wont change much, but on a large scale with millions of people dropping one bottle does. With doing this research I am hoping to answer many questions, but the big one is: what are the effects of plastic waste in our environment? I already know basic information about the topic, like plastic six-pack rings get caught on a bird's beak or how fish will get in-tangled inside a plastic bag. I am hoping to learn much more about what happens to these animals or the effect on vegetation. Obviously I will benefit from the from the research, but i am hoping that classmates and anyone else who hears my project will learn what happens when they throw the plastic bottle on the ground rather than in the recycling bin. Finally the environment will hopeful benefit too because people will realize that littering is so harmful and be more aware of the issue. In this research i will use sources like BBC, which is a non western source from the United Kingdom. This is a valid source because it in just like CNN in the United States. Another source is //Time// magazine. This magazine always contains useful information on almost any topic throughout the world. Finally i would like to use an online data base for my research. Data bases contain scholarly sources that are highly useful.