As I walk to class on Monday mornings all I can notice is the trash around campus that has been left for someone else to clean up. Sometimes this trash will sit there for weeks until the wind blows it away. Students don’t respect their campus and the people who must clean up after them. Gettysburg College students are fortunate to have cleaners Monday-Friday that clean up the building they live in, and landscapers clean up the campus. This is not just happening at Gettysburg College; it is happening around the world. College students litter more than every other age demographic.

At Gettysburg College, litter is everywhere, students don’t throw away their garbage and it is harming the environment and creating more work for employees.

Check out my radio minute recorded with fellow student in my Environmental Journalism class, Sarah Gilsoul.

Meet the Author!

Hi! I am Julia Phillips a junior Environmental Science major with a focus in policy and a minor in Political Science at Gettysburg College. I have been interested in the environment since I was a child and loved spending my days outside. My senior year at Holderness School in New Hampshire I did a senior thesis on pollution and marine life. I was able to do an internship at Loggerhead MarineLife at the conservation department in Juno Beach where I did a beach cleanup collected the data and sent it to NOAA. I also got to help make a fact sheet to help people in the area be aware how harmful plastic is to turtles. After this, I knew I wanted to major in Environmental Science and help animals!

Citation:

Litter in America: Prevention Tips & Solutions. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.dumpsters.com/blog/cleaning-up-litter