After the end of the military training, the first year of high school was on vacation, from noon on Friday on the 14th to Sunday afternoon on the 16th, which was two and a half days old, which can be regarded as a reward for the hard military training of high school freshmen for two weeks.

The students in the second and third years of high school did not have this treatment, and after the official reform of Xibei No. 4 Middle School to a vacation once a month, everyone needs to stay in school honestly for the three weekends in between.

However, for the students in the second and third years of high school, staying in school is not boring and lonely, after all, they can play ball, boxing, sandbags, cards and books in school, but they are also comfortable.

Although September has entered the autumn, but the weather is still very hot during the day, the ice cream in the supermarket has become a hot commodity, as soon as it is time to eat at noon, many students go to the supermarket to buy an ice cream to eat, sometimes they will buy some other snacks, and with the best-selling ice cream, a problem will follow, that is, the school's garbage began to increase, and there was a lot of random littering.

Lin Ping, as the principal, hadn't paid attention to this matter, but he began to pay attention to it when he received a letter from a student that day.

Dear President Lin,

I am a student of our Xibei No. 4 Middle School, I love our school, and I hope that our school can have a better environment and civilized atmosphere.

However, I found that there has been serious littering in the school recently, which is not only because of the lack of quality and civilization awareness of some students, but also because of the objective reason that there are too few garbage cans in our school and the distribution is unreasonable.

Therefore, I hope that the school can add more garbage cans and strengthen the quality and civilization education of students and daily management.

A student

After receiving this letter, Lin Ping immediately paid attention to this problem, and then went to observe it himself, and found that as the student said, many students in the school littered because of the unreasonable distribution and small number of garbage cans, especially the phenomenon of littering ice cream packaging.

For this reason, Lin Ping specially called Li Xinguo, director of the General Affairs Office, to talk about this matter, and said: "Director Li, your General Affairs Office will purchase a batch of garbage cans, and I request that from tomorrow, there must be a garbage can on every floor and every corner of every road in our school, and at the same time, the interval between every two garbage cans in our school shall not exceed 20 meters......

"Huh?" Li Xinguo said with a questioning face, "Principal Lin, there's no need for this......

Lin Ping smiled and said, "Of course there is, haven't you seen that the littering phenomenon in the school has been a bit serious recently?"

Li Xinguo said with a smile: "I think the trash can in our school is enough, but the distance between the two trash cans should not exceed 20 meters, which is a bit exaggerated." In addition, this littering is a problem of the quality of some students, so let the class teachers carry out education well, and then let the teachers of the political and educational office and the discipline inspection department of the student union supervise more, and catch the littering students to criticize and educate them fiercely, and then warn and report to make an example of them. ”

Lin Ping shook his head with a smile and said, "Director Li, you have deviated from the essence of education. Yes, littering is indeed a problem of the quality of some students, which is a subjective reason, but this quality is based on objective conditions. Everyone says that foreigners are of high quality, but what is the reason for the high quality of foreigners? A very important reason is that the objective conditions are good, that is, the so-called 'good people know etiquette and etiquette, and they know honor and disgrace when they have enough food and clothing.' ”

Lin Ping continued: " There was once a foreign social science group did such an experiment, they selected a park for the experiment, first set the park's garbage can interval to 20 meters, there was almost no littering in the park, after a week, reduce the number of garbage cans, the interval between the two garbage cans was adjusted to 40 meters, then there was a slight littering phenomenon in the park, and after a week, the number of garbage cans was reduced again, the interval of the garbage cans was set to 60 meters, and the phenomenon of littering in the park skyrocketed。 Therefore, the quality of foreigners is also based on objective conditions, if you don't even provide garbage cans, it will inevitably lead to littering. ”

Li Xinguo nodded thoughtfully.

Lin Ping smiled and said: "Of course, we also do want to carry out quality and civilized education for students, and we must also let the teachers of the Political and Educational Office and the Discipline Inspection Department of the Student Union increase the investigation and punishment of uncivilized behaviors such as littering by students in schools, but we must create the premise and objective conditions for students not to litter, so that we can strictly investigate littering and punish those students who lack quality in order to convince students." If our school doesn't even provide garbage cans, and forces them not to litter, isn't that a good woman's way of cooking without rice?"

Li Xinguo nodded and said with a smile: "Principal Lin, you are thoughtful, I will ask people to survey the layout of the trash cans on the campus, and then estimate the number of trash cans needed, and purchase a batch of trash cans." ”

Lin Ping nodded and continued: "By the way, the trash cans purchased should be the kind of classified trash cans that are divided into 'recyclable garbage' and 'non-recyclable garbage', don't use the kind of mixed and unified trash cans. ”

Li Xinguo was stunned again, thinking about why Principal Lin, a young man, had so many bad requirements, but he still nodded and said with a smile: "Okay, the sorting trash can, I remember, Principal Lin." ”

As a result, a large number of brand-new garbage cans were quickly arranged on the campus of Xibei No. 4 Middle School, and the interval between each two garbage cans was no more than 20 meters according to Lin Ping's requirements, and the existence of a garbage can was guaranteed at the corner of each floor and each road, so that the garbage cans could be seen everywhere on the campus of Xibei No. 4 Middle School.

After the new garbage can is arranged, there is no civilized quality education and strict investigation activities, the phenomenon of littering in Xibei No. 4 Middle School has dropped significantly, and when the school carries out civilized quality education and announces the strict investigation of littering, the phenomenon of littering in Xibei No. 4 Middle School disappeared overnight, and the students consciously threw the garbage into the garbage can on the side of the road, and rarely saw the wandering "man-made garbage" again.

To enhance the quality of civilization, we cannot rely solely on propaganda and education, but more importantly, we must create sufficient objective conditions.

As a simple example, most people know the dangers of discarded batteries from an early age: a No. 1 battery rots in the soil, which can make a square meter of land useless forever, and a single button battery can pollute 600,000 liters of water, which is equivalent to a person's lifetime drinking water.

The battery packaging also says that you should dispose of the discarded batteries at a dedicated battery waste recycling center, and public service announcements often promote not littering discarded batteries.

But the problem is that many people live so long without seeing where there is a dedicated battery waste recycling office in their city. There should not be many places in China that have special battery waste recycling places, only a handful, which causes the vast majority of people to only mix waste batteries and ordinary garbage together and throw them away.

Thunder and rain alone will not work, environmental protection can not only rely on public welfare publicity and citizens' personal awareness, more importantly, to create objective conditions, the establishment of appropriate and reasonable recycling methods. There is not even a recycling place for waste batteries, how to keep citizens from littering waste batteries.

Of course, from 2019 onwards, from Shanghai began to carry out strict garbage classification measures, which is undoubtedly an important progress in China's environmental awareness and the improvement of citizen quality, with sufficient objective conditions, the subjective quality of citizens will inevitably be significantly improved, just like waste batteries, they should always appear in the special waste battery recycling place, and should not be mixed with ordinary garbage.

After the purchase of the new garbage cans in Xibei No. 4 Middle School, there was also a special garbage classification propaganda department of the student union, but in 2012, Xibei, a small place on the 18th line, could not be so advanced, Lin Ping only asked the students to be able to distinguish between 'recyclable garbage' and 'non-recyclable garbage' and strictly dispose of the garbage in accordance with the requirements.