As a human, it is typical to experience any festival at least once. When you think about festivals, what is the first word that comes to mind? Many people would say excitement, amicableness, fantasticalness, and more.

Festival is well known to draw a lot of sound effects to people. Unfortunately, these seemingly good festivals have a very harmful effect on the environment. The environment is struggling with plenty of those factors from festivals. The most fundamental problem is a large amount of trash used for festivals. Local festivals resume due to eased social distancing and the number of disposable items discarded. The big problem is that many people still do not think it is a severe problem to throw trash away on the ground and not clean it up correctly (recycle).

Not only the trash from festivals, but we also face many other problems. Fireworks festivals are usually held near the beach, but there are remains of fireworks all over the beach, so there is a limit to crackdowns, and plastic takes 500 years to rot. So, if that large amount of plastic waste is inadvertently thrown away, how many hundreds of years will it take for them to rot altogether? 

Now it is the time for us to be changed. Nowadays, we (humans)are sacrificing innocent lives to achieve our benefits. Earth is our home, family, and friends. It could be anything that you love. We must protect our environment.

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