My sister Alli and I have been trying to get people to stop cigarette butts(烟蒂) for seven years.
One day, we were walking in our hometown and saw hundreds of cigarette butts on the ground. They made the ground. They made the town look so ugly that we decided to start a group to make people stop it. We called it "No Butts About It"!
At first, we drew pictures with "The Earth Is Not Your Ashtray(烟灰缸)" written on them. We put the pictures around our hometown—in parks, by beaches, and along roads.
We wanted to make people understand that dropping butts does to the environment. Most smokers don't think that dropping butts harms the earth. But it does! All rubbish does.
Later, we wrote to companies and asked them for money to help us. We used the money buy ashtrays to give smokers.
We wanted smokers to the ashtrays with them so they didn't have to drop butts.
Many people have started to join our group since it. Today there are 45 other "No Butts About It" groups in America. And there are even in England, Australia and India!
Many newspapers have written about my sister and I over the last seven years. And we have won many prizes for our good work. But we are not interested in prizes. We just want to make the earth a and cleaner place for animals, plants and people.
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