Trash is flowing all over Bermuda’s open spaces from St. Georges to Somerset. If our open spaces overflow with trash, we children won’t have a place to play.Every school and perhaps some families - should adopt an open space. Visit the open space often and make sure it is clean. My school has adopted Tobacco Bay, which is nearby. We plan to visit it often. This way, we can make sure that the children will have a place to play.People are also throwing trash in our oceans. The marine life does not understand about trash and so they eat litter that people throw in the ocean. Very soon the animals die. If you stop being careless with trash, you could make a difference to these beautiful creatures.We need a place for recreation! Can you help?By Sasha Crumley –and Hanna PercyIt is important to pick up trash and keep our open spaces clean, because animals and people visit open spaces. Tourists visit us to enjoy our island’s beauty and they don’t like to see all the trash.People love to exercise and play in the open spaces and they don’t like to see garbage. Nobody likes to see or play in a place that has trash everywhere. Trash threatens our recreational spaces.In many of our open spaces, there is lots of trash, for example, beer bottles, milk cartons, soda/juice cans, broken glass and plastic bags just to name a few.Everyone loves open spaces, so why don’t we keep them clean?Here are some suggestions.n Put trash cans around open spacesn Just stop litteringn Have a trash pick upn Trash collectors can come and pick up garbage more oftenn Get a friend and pick up trash for funAfter you eat, pick your trash up and put it in a trash can