Journal 13 and 14

Red Sox Spring Training

My service learning couldn’t have been more enjoyable! Hanging out with cool friends and people while helping out the environment at the same time, what could be better than that? Not much! This semester I did my service learning at the Red Sox Spring Training stadium. I was a part of what they call the Green Team. As a member of the Green Team it is your responsibility to go around the stadium and collect any type of plastic recyclables that you find or that people hand you. Already at the stadium there were so many recycling bins, but we were still able to collects tons and tons of plastics and recycle them. Some fans that were at the games loved the fact that there was a Green Team while others didn’t really care. As I said before there were already so many recycling bins around the stadium and even though there were a lot of team members too there were still so many people who still didn’t recycle their garbage. The worst was when I would see someone throwing away their plastics in the garbage can when the recycling bins were directly next to the them. At times this got EXTREMELY frustrated and I wanted to yell at them and be like “Hello! You could have recycled that!”  It really amazed me at times that people didn’t do it, when it was so easy to do! Other than that frustrating aspect I really enjoyed doing this as my service learning project instead of just going to a nature preserve and picking up garbage or weeds! Personally I think that there should be more service learning projects that are fun to do like the one I enjoyed doing!