Our Planet is the Security of Our Future

  Hello, my name is Alara. I’m 17. I have a brother called Buğra. He is 12. We walked together in the nature every weekend. This weekend we wanted to go to the seaside. We got ready to walk the beach. While walking on the way, we noticed that there was a turtle in the middle of the road. It couldn’t walk. We walked towards it to help. When we came closer, we noticed the problem.   My brother said ‘Look at the turtle sister!’ The legs and fins of the turtle are full of rubbish.’ Then we cleaned the turtle from the rubbish and gave some water to it. We bought it and went to the beach together. We were shocked when we saw the beach. Because there were a lot of rubbish on the beach. I took a photo of the beach filled with rubbish and posted it on my social media account. One hour later, some people came to help us to clean the beach. They had trash bags. We all started to clean the beach. I understood that the photo of dirty beach was affected to the people. Some of the peop...

 One day, we were solving problems on the test at the class. When everyone finished the test, we started to chat. Then one of the students began to count how many paper had a person per capita in the class during the whole academic year. She said that the number of the paper per capita for a person in the class was 371. When the teacher asked us what we would do with these worksheets, some of us said that they brought them to the village to burn into the stove. Some of us said that they would tear them to relax and throw them into the dustbin. Everyone had different opinions to evaluate the worksheets. While the other students sharing their ideas, an interesting idea came to my mind. I raised my hand to share my idea. When I stood up, everyone fell into silence. ‘Teacher, if we collect the waste papers and worksheets in the class, we can get tons of waste paper. Tons of trees are cut down to produce these papers. We can send them to recycling factories.’ My friend ideas were only w...