Article Source: LA Youth

Brandie Hanson, 18, North HS in Torrance (2009 graduate)

My junior year I saw girls in the bathroom turn on all the faucets, wasting water, just for fun. After lunch I would walk through school and see the janitors picking the recyclables out of the trash cans, even though we have recycling bins all over campus. It made me wonder what were people thinking, were they even thinking at all?! The janitors have other things to do!

I felt that the students at my school needed to pay more attention to the environment. So on a whim at the end of junior year I applied for the new ecology position on student council. When I was chosen I was shocked and excited that I got the opportunity to start a new tradition, Ecology Week. My goal was to make more students care about the environment.

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