The American Red Cross offers the chance to donate your blood for a good cause. They also provide other services, which can be found at www.givelife.org. Toys are another good donation. Many kids go through their childhood without the enjoyment of playing with toys. The next time a big cleaning day comes around, set aside all of your childhood toys and put them in boxes. Churches and schools are great places to donate your old GI Joe figures and your building blocks. Helping each other means helping to create a better environment.
Over 70% of our earth is water. Americans who enjoy the earth"'s waters and beaches also have a stake in keeping it clean. Many organizations have been formed to help stabilize water and beach contamination. The Surfrider Foundation is one of many organizations who advocate the federal Beaches Environmental Assessment, Closure and Health Act, which sets nationwide standards for beach water quality. If you want to help keep the trash off your local beaches, Pack Your Trash is another organization that protects and keeps the beaches and waters clean. Our earth"'s oceans are polluted daily, whether is be simple trash, toxic waste, or oil spills. All of these items have effect on our ocean, ocean life, and our own life. Imagine summer is coming, the sun is hot, the waves are up, and there is a sign saying, ""beach closed to contaminated water."" This is a nightmare for any American, and of course the question comes up, why? On every city street there is a storm drain. As rain falls over roads, parking lots, construction sites, and industrial or commercial sites, it becomes contaminated with oil and grease, heavy metals, pesticides, litter, fecal matter, and pollutants from vehicle exhaust. This polluted runoff flows into storm drains along roadsides and into our oceans. Along with polluted rain comes trash. Countless Americans liter down storm drains daily which leads to more contaminated waters and more deaths of sea life animals.
