Implementing a Call to Action to Benefit Park Visitors

According to waste management researchers at Mount Field National Park, (location) (talk more about the previous litter and connect it to Louisville) (Make us care with my own voice) litter in the park has decreased by twenty percent in only one year. (cite) This decrease in litter is a result of the park discarding their trash receptacles and implementing a new call to action for visitors, ‘pack it in, pack it out’, which states visitors must leave the park with whatever trash they entered with. Promoting environmental thinking by having visitors of parks take responsibility for their own trash is a good idea despite the fact that pet and baby waste are often left in the park. Decreasing the amount of litter in parks is essential to the health and well-being of wildlife that call the park home. Litter also obstructs the natural elegance and beauty that park’s visitors often come to enjoy. In this paper I will discuss how implementing a ‘pack it in, pack it out’ theory in Cherokee Park will decrease the amount of litter in the park and benefit the park’s wildlife as well as visitors…