Dear Editor:

We, students of Wiscasset Middle High School, want the community to be aware of how much waste we produce each day and think about how we could reduce it. Last month WMHS freshmen talked a lot about plastic, how it’s really bad for the environment, and how important it is to clean up and recycle trash, plastic, etc. These items can kill animals if they get into the environment.

The freshmen went on a beach clean up to clean the beach of all the plastics and trash that people had left behind to help keep the world clean. A lot of the findings that were found on the beach were mostly rope, lobster claw rubber bands, Styrofoam and lots of other harmful things.

To prepare for this trip, Mrs. Andersson's class went to the Wiscasset Transfer Station and one of the things that we got to see was a hill, and the hill wasn’t a normal hill, it was a hill made up of garbage. It is humongous, the hill is about 54,000 tons of who knows what. Perhaps you see if when you drive down Huntoon Hill Road.

Luckily today we transfer our waste to other places and recycle. In the world, there is so much plastic and we don’t really have a place to put it, so it just keeps adding up and it ends up spreading everywhere. We, as a community need to work together to make sure that plastic isn’t used so much and that we try as hard as we can to make the world clean and the animals happy.

Ariana Gurney,

Hannah Johnson

and Adam Giles