Me and the environment

Since I was a kid, my family taught me that protect the environment is an important and essential

thing for being a better human being. My mother and my father always told me “never throw

trash on the ground, because that’s bad”. Maybe the first time that she taught me this, I don’t

understood why, because other times I had seen trash in parks or in the streets, but when I was a

little bit older, I finally understood: places looks horrible when they are dirty, because no one can

enjoy this places and garbage kills the plants.

I think that this is the first time when you can learn about the environment: your parents, and I will

try to pass this knowledge to my children one day.

I you ask me, how green I am? I answer you that I’m not a green person… if you are thinking

in recycling things. I don’t do this not because I don’t care, but in Rancagua, there is not much

places where you can carry your recyclable garbage. However, I always try to reduce my

carbon footprint: I share the car with other persons, I don’t use taxi because I prefer the public

transportation; I also try to turn off the TV and the lights when I’m not using it; I don’t waste

water, I walk from my home to the bus stop (like 15 minutes) every time I can; I use the bicycle to

make short trips and reuse the super market bags and try to use a cloth bag to do the shopping.

I would like to do more things to help the environment, but I think that these little things would

help a lot if more persons would make them...