There isn't any day that I don't spot plastic on the ground, rather than in the trash can. At school, I see plastic wrappers hidden in the bushes, under tables that we sit on during lunch, and rolling in the wind, like a tumbleweed. As I peer out from the car on the freeways and streets, I see garbage, like shredded rubber from a tire laying on the shoulder, and plastic bags and bottles in the dead grass. And no one seems to take the time to gather it up and put it to better use or at least the trash can. Everyone just drives by it, never giving it a second look. The litter sits there for days and even years, slowly breaking down into smaller pieces, but never completely goes away.
When I was younger, at first glance, I thought that people just threw it out of their car when they were done with the product. I told myself how cruel people could be and how lazy our world has become. They didn't want to put the extra effort to wait for location to properly discard it, so they did the easiest thing.
Later on, I didn't think that all people did that, but there could certainly be some that do. I drove deeper into think why this occurrence of so much waste could possibly be on the ground. It didn't happen to fly out of the trash and make it to the freeway. It had be the wind. It will pick up the item and carry it to a new location.
The real initial cause is the laziness of our civilization. The amount of garbage reflects it, like the islands of trash in every single ocean reaching to the size of Texas. Laziness is the easy way out for people and is natural for people to chose that path. They don't think of the possible chain reaction that can happen. All they think is that it is the fastest way to get it out of their hair, but it just contributes to another problem. It's like passing the hot potato in a circle. It will find it's way back to you.
Our world is becoming plastic, and we need to fix it before all we are given left is only plastic because we killed and destroyed everything else.
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