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These are some of the pictures from the 5th grade service clean up facility.
 * [[image:river_picture.jpg width="335" height="211"]] || This was the first place we went on our trip. We are over a bridge on the Milwaukee river. We are overlooking the water and ice. On the left is John Hawk's Pub. On the right is the childrens center. ||
 * This is the inside of the Merph. The merph is a place where trash and recyling matierials are crumpled up and get ready to be made into other things. As you can seeit is pretty messy. These are some stations in the Merph. Some put the trash in the boxes and some crumple up the trash into little cubes like you see before you. || [[image:Garbage_boxes.jpg width="340" height="240"]] ||
 * [[image:Trash_in_the_river.jpg width="317" height="184"]] || This is a picture of the Milwaukee river. The river bends a little and when it does that all the trash that comes down the river gets cought in the turn. That is what the picture of incase you were wondering. We are standing over it cause we are on the bridge. It is really sad to see a river like this so dirty. ||
 * This is a picture of Lake Michigen.This is the part of the Lake where the river goes into the lake. It was really cool to see it!!!! As you can see it was a not a very clear day so we couldn't see very far out. We walked down to the end of the dock and there is a statue. || [[image:lake_michigan.jpg width="380" height="283"]] ||
 * [[image:Merph_picture.jpg width="378" height="308"]] || This is a symbol of Keep greater Milwaukee Beautiful. We went there to learn about decomposing and recycling. We also learned that it would take one million years or more for a glass bottel to decompose. We thought that was pretty cool. ||

These are five things we learned from this project...

1. We learned about how important recycling is to nature and to the world. If we don't the world will be a huge landfill!!!!!!!!!!!!

2. We learned how trash was recycled at the merph. We actually got to go inside of the Merph and see how it worked.

3. We saw the where the river meets the lake and we also saw the milwaukee river and how poluted the river is and how important t is to recycle.

4. We found out that