Be A HERO – one CAN! at a time
You can save the Earth in more ways than you think… Give a little love next time you see a piece of trash on the ground. Pick it up! and throw it away. One small gesture of kindness towards nature is all this Earth needs! Together we can save a world full of pollution, But – it starts with YOU.

Ashley Kron, Grade 8
Hughes Middle School

1st Place Winner

Keep Our Ocean Clean
Do you want to know for the rest of your life that because you threw one piece of trash into the ocean or on the floor, may end up killing a poor little sea creature? Well don’t!
Throw your trash in a trash can and help keep our ocean Clean!!!

Alyssa Haack, Grade 6
Hughes Middle School

2nd Place Winner

Your Trash Their Torment
Every year, hundreds of sea animals die from strangulation because of the floating trash in the ocean. Most of the trash harming the sea animals comes from those of us on land. You and everyone else around you can do their part by making sure trash makes it into the can, not on the ground. Make sure that you DO YOUR PART!

Julian De La Torre, Grade 8 Hughes Middle School

2nd Place Winner

Don’t Trash Long Beach
Don’t trash Long Beach! Keep it litter free! Together everyone can keep Long Beach clean if each one of us pick up a piece of litter and throw it in the trash can, that’s where it belongs, not in the beach. Some people just don’t listen when we tell them to not litter. They don’t nderstand that when it rains all the trash loose in the world goes into
the sewers and down into the ocean. This is a big problem
because it’s hazardous for animals. They get stuck into the trash and become deformed or they eat our trash so they choke and eventually pass out. Our beaches become dirty
and ugly. So make this world and Long Beach a better place by keeping it litter free!

Sarahi Garcia, Grade 8
Hughes Middle School

3rd Place Winner

LITTER affects YOU!
Litter not only affects our planet, it affects you. It pollutes all of your favorite places to go. If we don’t stop littering, all of those places will be too polluted to visit. All that litter will
build up and ruin things for us and generations to come. LITTER STINKS AND WILL RUIN ALL OF THESE FUN PLACES FOR US AND THE GENERATIONS TO COME!

Madison Delaney McCombs,
Grade 6
Stanford Middle School

People's Choice Award

Don’t Be a Quitter – Fight the Litter!
Litter is everywhere. This litter is not only affecting us, but also the animals that we share Earth with. We need to make a fighting effort to improve the way we live and save the lives of the many animals out there that are a part of our everyday life.

Caroline Quach, Grade 8
Hughes Middle School

Stop Littering … Start Cleaning
Litter stinks. It smells, it’s dirty, and it is everywhere. What can we do to stop it? Simple solution – one little toss in the trash. I encourage everyone to be responsible, stop
littering and start cleaning. Help make our City of Long Beach litter-free!

Victoria Henzon, Grade 7
Hudson International Studies Magnet School

Litter Never Goes Away …
So help clean and make Earth a clean place everyday
Litter never does go away. Trash from everywhere around the world ends up in the ocean or piles up on our land. So help clean and make Earth a place to live. It is our land, it is our choice to make the future a better place.

Reylyn Cardenas, Grade 6
Hughes Middle School

TRASH can be gone in a flash
Litter is here, litter is there. It’s everywhere! Litter can be gone in a flash. It doesn’t take 10 minutes. There are recycling/trash bins in almost every corner. How hard is it
to throw one away?

Monica Lock, Grade 8
Hughes Middle School

Home Sweet Home – What a Dump!
We need to start taking better care of the Earth otherwise this will be our future. Do your job and cleanup.

Andy Ayala, Grade 7
Bancroft Middle School

Littering is so Trashy
Littering not only makes you look bad, but also makes the earth look bad. Make an extra effort to get your
trash in the can.

Melissa Brooks, Grade 8
Hughes Middle School

Littering is Not a Game
a missed shot causes damage … especially to animals.

Jasmine Hooper, Grade 8
Hughes Middle School

Maintain and Ensure a Future for Living
- Pick up your trash
- Save electricity
- Dispose of chemicals properly
- Drive your car less
- Teach it to your family and    friends
Because Earth is our only home, not just for humans, but
for the entire system of creatures we love.

Alyshia Davis, Grade 8
Marshall Middle School

Can We Do It?
Send a man to the moon
Discover new species
Uncover mysterious, ancient places
Stop littering (let’s make this a YES) green NOT garbage

Christopher Lopez, Grade 7
Washington Middle School

TRASH
There’s still a CHANCE.

There’s only 1 Earth, and we’re 1 can away from throwing our home away. Instead of helping the planet, we’ve been doing the exact opposite, but there’s still a chance. IF we all pitch in and pick up trash we can all finally be litter free.

Wendy Castro, Grade 8
Hughes Middle School