Hello I am Anilorac. You can see me as the writer of this blog.

My background: I am a tenth grade student at Environmental Charter High School and I belong to this organization known as Green Ambassadors.

You may have heard of us or you may have not. As Green Ambassadors,we have done a lot for being teenagers. I personally have started, with my fellow students, a waste free lunch system at my school; I have also planted trees in Lawndale and my school, and many other projects like help out in organizations and have also gone to Disney studios.

I want to help other teenagers have their voices be heard about plastics. I will admit they are a great invention but with that said we don't use them properly or even know how to dispose of them. According to the Container Recycling Institute 25 billion single-serving bottles are used each year and out of those, 22 billion will go straight to a landfill. Also this was a real shocker that plastics contain petroleum I bet you didn't know that but not many people do so now, you know something some don't.

Currently we are working on a project known as Bring Your Own. The name what does it mean? Well we want all our school to stop using plastic forks and bring their own forks. The basics - we are making pouches for our forks that way students will want to bring them in a nice little pouch.

According to Algalita Marine Research Foundation only 3.5% of plastics are recycled in any way. This means that all the plastic we consume,bottles and FORKS are not all getting recycled like they should. They are all going to landfills.

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