environmental conservation

during my younger years, in my early teens to be exact, i was a member of a conservation corps. we call ourselves the youth conservation corps. it is a community based group which its main thrust is to lessen the destruction of our planet earth. we are sent to other places to train on how to do basic recycling, waste management and garbage disposal. and then we conduct a re-echo seminar in our respective communities. as usual their reaction is that, "why do i have to bother myself in segregating my garbage if i can just throw it all at once in the garbage pit." that's their response every time we do the re-echo seminar. they don't listen to us because we are just teenagers. teenager who do no know anything.

but now, those people who are against us are the ones approaching us if we could conduct another seminar on that. they are alarmed that every time it rains, the flood waters are carrying waste materials which enters their homes. they feared they might caught some incommunicable diseases. and this is really alarming, just one day of rain the flood water is so high. if they only listened to us back then, maybe the effect today would be minimal.