The Garbage of UHS

BY J.S.

Look, uni high, we have a problem. A big one. And it’s not your failing grades - it’s something even trashier than that. It’s absolute garbage, you could say, because that’s what it is: we have a rubbish problem about rubbish.

So many hallways have candy wrappers on the ground and bags strewn around, posters left in disarray and leaves in places where they really shouldn’t be. Even in the deepest recesses of the school like the 263 stairwell or behind the portables there is just simply more and more garbage. 

Candy wrappers. Chip packets. Hell, I saw some Takis packets. Furthermore there’s homework, apple cores, banana peels (watch out!), broken pencils, plastic bags, trampled sandwiches, spilt prime energy drinks and some things I can’t even mention in the school newspaper (freaky) (but also ew). We are drowning in our inability to be self-sufficient.

Who’s fault is this? Yours. If you see it, just pick it up, and if you make some rubbish, just put it in a bin for god’s sake. It’s right there. Yes. You. Everyone is to blame for this, really. The school’s janitors are working hard but you create simply so much garbage even just after they’ve toiled away it doesn’t even matter.

Maybe, just maybe, those who litter, are the real garbage of UHS