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Nearly 100 billion plastic bags are used in the United States alone and a discarded plastic bag can take up to 1,000 years on estimate to decompose.

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In the last year alone, 9 billion tons of litter was dumped into the world’s oceans.

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Eye-Opening Statistics on Littering | Visual.ly

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Littering is a big problem that's why we need companies that haul away garbage for us. To visually see just how much waste is wasted each year I creat

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Recycling and composting prevented 85 million tons of material away from being disposed of in 2010, up from 18 million tons in 1980.

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Approximately 40% of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing, aquatic life, or swimming.

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The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year, creating a “dead zone” in the Gulf each summer about the size of New Jersey.

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Over 1 million seabirds and 100,000 sea mammals are killed by pollution every year.

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Pollution is one of the biggest global killers, affecting over 100 million people. That’s comparable to global diseases like malaria and HIV.

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https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2018/03/28/island-plastic-garbage-pacific-16-times-bigger-than-thought/33349159/

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http://www.packyourtrash.org/

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https://www.dosomething.org

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https://litteritcostsyou.org/

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What are some ways you could make your presentation stand out from others? What makes your project unique? 

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What are some ways you could make your presentation stand out from others? What makes your project unique? 

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My project will stand out from others because it’s something that affects all of us. Pollution is everyone’s problem and everyone can do something to help. It affects people, our environment, and other species in a variety of ways that we all seem to ignore. By sharing information to my classmates, I hope that it shifts their ways of thinking and inspires them to change their bad habits.

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What three pitches are you most excited to learn about and why?

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What three pitches are you most excited to learn about and why?

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I am excited to hear more about the pitches on a college application and college readiness class, self confidence and self esteem, and open mindedness. These pitches stood out to me most because they are all topics that relate to me and are things that I either need to work on or want to share with others.

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What excites you most about this project? What potential challenges or obstacles might you face? How will you respond to those? 

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What excites you most about this project? What potential challenges or obstacles might you face? How will you respond to those? 

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What excites me most about this project is that I get the chance to research about something that I’ve always wanted to learn more about. All my life I have done things to help the environment and the world around me, and now that I have time in school to teach myself more about what I can do, I can continue to do as much as I can to help the planet. Not every lifestyle change I make due to this project will be easy, such as trying to use the least amount of plastic as possible and starting to compost, but I believe that it will be worth the struggle and it will make it much more sentimental to me.

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Discuss your thoughts on 20 Time. How could this be applied in your everyday life? 

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Discuss your thoughts on 20 Time. How could this be applied in your everyday life? 

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I believe that the 20 Time Project is not only a one time project in school, but it can also be used to keep a healthy lifestyle. What I mean by this is that if you take a small 20% of your time to focus on something other than school and other than work, it can help keep your life fresh and interesting. When I am in college, I’m going to remember the 20 Time Protect and use this time to do something i’m passionate about. I can either use this time to be outside in nature, to learn something I’ve always wanted to, to learn more about myself, or even take this time to relax and de-stress. Whatever it is I choose to do with my time, I think that it will overall improve my mental health and distract me from the stress I may be facing, even if it’s just 20% of my time.

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I believe that bad ideas can inspire good ideas. For instance, when horrific events take place, such as school shootings, communities come together and society brings up new ways to solve or help this issue. I’m not going to get political with this topic, but people have and continue to come up with temporary solutions in regards to school shootings. There are new inventions like bulletproof backpacks, safe rooms, lock blocks, alarms systems, and much more. Although shootings are tragic and life changing, it is refreshing to see so many people working for solutions while political standpoints are getting into order.

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I am so thrilled to finally be diving into research on my topic of pollution and littering. As I teach myself more and more, it’s hard not to become a saddened by the information I come across. These statistics are blowing my mind. Millions of children are dying each year due to the negative affects of pollution, animals are suffering the consequences of humans wrong-doings, and the worst part about it is that it is completely preventable. I read an article that wrote something along the lines of “littering is a side affect of our convinience-oriented society.” I thought this was something worth remembering because of how true it is. Our society becoming convenience-oriented has only brought us temporary solutions to long term problems. Littering is convenient at the time, but now the world is facing huge issues like the plastic island in the Pacific Ocean that has been reported to be 617,800 square miles, according to ABC News in March 2018. If this doesn’t scare people, then I don’t know what does.

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I am still struggling with my decision on what my project will be able. I am leaning towards the more environmental route, mostly because of the new research I have been finding. I have read recent reports by The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warning us that we have 12 years to protect the Earth from catastrophic changes due to climate change. By 2030, the ocean levels will rise, the ocean will become more acidic, the air quality will be compromised, and of course, the Earth´s temperature will have risen. I want to introduce something doable to my peers. Simply disposing of trash properly has many positive impacts on communities, individuals, animals, the planet, and it is beyond easy. I am going to research the topic of how litter is effecting humans, other animals, and the Earth and see how it goes.

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Do you Believe you can inspire change? How? Why? 

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Do you Believe you can inspire change? How? Why? 

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I believe I can inspire change, but it is harder as an individual than it is for a club or group of people. Therefore, I can be a start. As an individual, I can educate others and inspire them to believe in the same things I do. In my project´s case, I want to show others how important it is to know your worth, how impactful you you can be, and how easily you can make a positive impact on the world.

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To be completely honest, my the 20 Time Project is starting off very slow and I am having trouble sticking to one idea. I´m not sure where to start and my mind is in so many different places as to what I want to research. I am not sure if I want to inspire my peers to go vegan (even for just a few days out of the week, to educate them on the rapid declination of living coral reefs in our oceans, to influence them to do their part in making our world clean and in good condition, or to enlighten them on the positive effects of meditation.