Research Paper On Bye Tobags

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Almost a full year ago I became a member of Zoo ALIVE, the St. Louis Zoo’s volunteer educator program (ALIVE standing for Active Leaders In Volunteer Education). Over the course of the past year I have assisted with many different areas and programs the zoo offers, such as: an early childhood class, the play area (wild wonder outpost), summer camp, our stingray area (caribbean cove), birthday parties, holiday events, and my favorite by far, the bye to bags campaign. The bye to bags campaign was started by Zoo ALIVE teen volunteers that partnered with The Ocean Project in an effort to educate zoo visitors about the dangers of plastic trash in our oceans, specifically plastic bags. Even though I was not one of the teens to initially start it, as it started a year before I joined Zoo ALIVE, I quickly became interested and involved in the campaign. Our goal is to convince zoo visitors to start using reusable bags instead of plastic bags when they go shopping. Before I started volunteering to work at the bye to bags booth I already knew plastic bags were bad for the environment. However, …show more content…

Visitors that stop by the booth are asked to sign the bye to bags pledge, indicating that they are going to make the switch. During a shift on a steady day I can sometimes get thirty or more signatures. Depending on whether they actually make the switch or not, that’s more than 40,000 plastic bags kept out of the ocean. Working with bye to bags makes me feel like together we are truly making the earth a cleaner, healthier, and just generally, a better place to live. It has defiantly affected the way I run my life personally. Now, when I go shopping, I often just ask for no bags at all, as I very rarely buy that much at once and if I’m ever planning to buy a lot, I have a big stack of reusable bags in my

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