Cleaning is done four weeks McKinney fifth grade junk, it spreads the word about ...

Everett Sjolseth is only in fifth grade, but is well on the way to save the world.

Glen Oaks Elementary student has the last three and a half weeks spent with their rubbish ... literally. Put on a suit with the help of mother Sheila, Everett sewed waste collection, which accumulate to show the world like a child throwing garbage over time.

The project focuses on a family project during a summer camp host Sjolseths. While the conservation Everett discovered YouTube channel Rob Greenfield, an activist based in San Diego, who created the Me paper, Greenfield was an experiment in which the garbage for a month.

After I decided to do some research and for more videos of Greenfield to take Everett's own child-friendly version of my work.

The first two weeks of the experiment - the game Garbage me - Everett tried to produce 4.5 pounds of garbage every day, according to the national average. Since the habits of existing protection in the country, which was only able to produce less than half that number, but after two weeks, he shares his suit garbage and had to make additional pockets for 25 £ waste he had collected.

For the second half of the month-long project - Keep With Me - Everett emptied the suit and began again, this time make sure that as much as possible to get. At the beginning of the second half, he felt about half a pound of produce collection every day Grade 2 weeks. But on day 10 which take less than a quarter pound of the supporting part, and was little more than a book on the pile of recycling. Ends keep me on Tuesday and in the last two weeks Everett took a piece of cardboard in their limbs tightening accounting for the preservation waste.

Everett wears the suit anywhere but home, a break from the extra weight. I had many questions thrown his way, both adults and children. And just to clarify, "No, I do not put toilet paper in there," he said. On the other hand, he said Sheila junk foods, the feeling was replaced by the same weight in a suitable container begin.

To delete your school, Everett has a presentation in Glen Oaks Superior Molly Hovan and teachers who said Sheila on board with the idea were.

While Sjolseths worked for years to reduce waste, Everett brought activism more bad habits light for the family, including father and his younger brother Erik Merritt.

Everett said his mother has "problems with paper towels."

"It was six years ago I started using Swedish rag, but did not stop the last step with paper towels until I saw from my son," she DIT.

Everett said through his experience and research, it was announced that recycling is not the only answer.

"Recycling is an expensive and high energy, so it is best to first do not produce this garbage," he said.

But that did not stop in the cafeteria push for a recycling bin that used polystyrene foam trays. And this could be a first step towards a future to spread the word.

"It could be an activist or anything," he said. "I know that kids can make a difference, and I know that when children are something that adults get their ideas and want to help, too."

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