On February 19, 2022, AYLUS Pearland volunteered at Keep Pearland Beautiful’s Cigarette Cleanup Event from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm. At the start of the event, Keep Pearland Beautiful gave volunteers a presentation regarding the procedure of collecting cigarettes as well as spreading awareness of the environmental impact of wrongfully discarding cigarettes. Then, volunteers were divided into small groups of four and assigned different intersections throughout the Pearland area to clean up and collect cigarette butts. In total, AYLUS Pearland members were able to collect over 3000 cigarette butts and helped clean up debris such as plastic packaging and bags along the side of the roads.
Volunteers that attended were Zixuan Liu, Aoyu Jin, Chenyu Jin, Kate Liu, Fiona Ren, Haoqi Zhang, Wendy Yin, Ray Huang, Jiaqi Ren, Aila Jiang, Tina Dong, Elizabeth Hu (3 hours)
Reported by Kate Liu
