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Grace Jung

Mr.Ermert

Senior Literature 3

February 6, 2019

Revermann, Susan. “How Does Littering Affect the Environment?” What Students Learn

From Dissecting a Cow's Eye | Education - Seattle PI, 21 Nov. 2017,

https://education.seattlepi.com/littering-affect-environment-6802.html

In this article, Susan Revermann informs the different ways how littering can affect the

environment by sorting them out into different sections. Revermann gives many resources of

how drastic littering can be even if it was intentional or unintentional. In each information, she

provides detailed information about how each littering can impact the world and around us. The

article is about the different ways of littering influence the environment by informing what the

outcome would be to litter. She divided her resources into four different categories; Marine

Litter, Land Litter, Contaminated groundwater, and Monetary Cost, giving a helpful explanation

of why littering is a negative thing. This article provides primary sources because it gives me

more than enough information to get informed. It also gives me several big ideas of what I want

to do and gives me usable ideas for my final project.

Laverty, Amanda. “8 Ways to Keep the Earth Clean.” Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, 2018,

https://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/8-ways-keep-earth-clean.html

In this article, Amanda Laverty informed the different ways people can keep the

environment and the earth clean by sorting them into eight components. Lavery gives resources

of how different ideas can change the environment even if the idea is not solving the whole earth

problem. She lists different ways to help the environment and explains it in brief sentences to
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organize the layout. She shows practical things people can do in their daily lives to decrease the

community from getting polluted. She starts with how the earth gets damaged and polluted and

inform us about how much ocean gets polluted. Then, she lists the things people can do on daily

basis to not make caring for the earth not as hard. This article gives me ideas that could be

obtained easily and gives me more knowledge about my capstone project. I can see that small

changes make a big impact on society.

Berry, Michael. “Environmental Management: Cleaning and the Environment - Article.” CIRI, 8

Feb. 2012, www.ciriscience.org/a_269-Cleaning-and-the-Environment.

In this article, Berry shows the benefits of the environment and awareness of them

throughout by giving various information about the cleaning and mindset of people about such

topics. She separates the article into two different topics; cleaning the environment and the

environment itself, by creating a more understandable article. He explains each section

thoroughly by creating different sections within the section that was already made. This article is

about how the environment and cleaning the environment is important. He informs how much

the environment is important to us to connect with our needs and scarcity. To get his message

across he uses different information that supports the section before. Then he explains the

importance of cleaning and the purpose of it and how to clean the environment the right way.

This article will provide me with great help because not only it gives information about the topic,

it also gives me the right ways to clean the environment. I can use this information to think of

more supportive ideas that wouldn’t harm ourselves.

Bateson, M., Robinson, R., Abayomi-Cole, T., Greenlees, J., Abby O’Connor, & Nettle, D.

(2015). Watching eyes on potential litter can reduce littering: Evidence from two field

experiments. PeerJ,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1443

In this article, the group of people shares ideas about a project experiment about littering

on school campuses and how the watching eye can decrease the rate of littering by acting more

sensitive about it. These authors give an experimental report of their ideas and how the idea

turned out to be. They sectioned the article into scientific steps including graphs, data analysis,

and data recording. They did two different experiments to be sure of their hypothesis and the

factual response they found. This article is about the psychology researchers making experiments

on different occasions on campus to see if the watching eye would reduce littering and becoming

sensitive. Their experiments were compared and contrasted to confirm the exact solution and

discusssed the outcome. This enhances my project because this shows me that peer pressure and

group work is more powerful than single. This gives me the idea that I should gather people and

work as a group to be more productive.

Long, J., Harré, N., & Atkinson, Q. D. (2014). Understanding change in recycling and littering

behavior across a school social network. American Journal of Community Psychology, 53(3-4),

462-74.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10464-013-9613-3

In this article, a group of psychologist finds out what is causing students to litter and how

an individual’s beliefs and behaviors are shaped by peers and people around them. They

investigate the change in behavior across social networks by recycling interventions in different

high schools. The authors' mixed method design combined the focus groups and social network

analysis that measures different networks and behaviors. This article shows how the people all

around you can change behavior and how parent’s encouragement for recycling behavior is

crucial. Littering is one of the behaviors of social networks and the research show how they are
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clustered into one. They inform how the people that spend time with can condition to thinking in

different ways. This article is valuable because it shows how peer pressure can lead to behaviors

and through this we can use social networking. Since social networking is very influential I can

use this idea as making the group and positively influencing others to join as well.