Do you know the word “litter”? Some people don’t throw their trash into a trash can. Instead, they throw it on the ground. That is called “littering.” It makes the streets and parks look messy. It’s also bad for the environment. I went to a park the other day, and there were a lot of white tissues on the ground. Why did someone litter like that? Why didn’t they take their trash home? Then I looked more closely. Those white things weren’t tissues. They were flowers from a magnolia tree. The large white flower petals fell to the ground and looked like litter, but that isn’t litter. The flowers are biodegradable and will return to nature.     (116 words)

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