SPOONS!

11/26/2009 08:53 Filed in: recycle | Justin
justin
Recently, I became a member of Greene Keene Teens. My friend Lucy, the president and founder of the club, got me involved. After learning that there was a club meeting coming up, I decided to try and brainstorm about the club’s ongoing topic, disposable cutlery in schools. I consider myself to be somewhat of a visual and artistic person, so I thought about the issue that way. The best way to bring about change is to wake people up, I believe. The 31 billion plastic utensils disposed in the USA alone every year have to be heard. Their screams must be heard. The screams are loud. These screams must be expressed artistically, through an event of sorts. My idea is to try and collect as many plastic spoons from schools and businesses that would like to get involved. Thousands upon thousands of spoons would be a great way to represent the innumerable waste of cutlery plastics every year.

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As a club, we could take each and every spoon, and draw frowning faces on them to depict how each and every spoon disposed is sad, because each and every one contributes to waste. With thousands of sad spoons, we could turn heads. Make an event out of it. We could set them up, in lines, in a field, to represent how truly countless the waste is in our environment. We could get sponsors to donate a small amount for every spoon set up. The event would be in the public eye, somewhere that everyone can witness. After the event, we could ask visitors to pick up a few spoons, to try and get them to visualize that the mess we are creating is not an easy thing to dispose of. By realizing the issue of plastic waste is hard to dispose of, hopefully people would cut down on disposal in the first place. The goal would be not only to change the ways of the people, but of schools across America who go through hundreds of plastic utensils every day.