My name is Daniel. I live in Tennessee. When I was 7, I found some plastic (塑料的) bottles on a riverbank. I felt worried because I knew plastic bottles and other rubbish could be ___1___to animals in rivers. Now I’m 13, and I work to keep rubbish out of rivers.
The Tennessee River is ___2___ polluted with plastics and other rubbish. And I want to do something to help stop more ___3___ . I do some ___4___ cleanups with others. We go along the riverbanks. Sometimes we go to places that we can only reach by boat. We often find plenty of ___5___ , such as broken toys and plastic bags.
Doing cleanups makes me really ___6___. I know I’m making a difference and ___7___ lives—not just animal lives, but human lives as well, because it continues up the food chain (链条).What happens to them happens to us.
Last year, I set up the Cleanup Kids with my friends to call on kids all around the world to ___8___ rubbish. People take pictures of the rubbish ___9___send them to us, so we can know how many pieces they found. We will ___10___ our goal (目标) of 1,000,000 pieces at the end of this month.
We’re never too young to change the world. Kids are a small part of the population, but we are 100% of the future.