Homecoming weekend is over. 

We won our homecoming football game, we partied hard and we got all of our homework done (hopefully). 

Throughout this weekend, we at The Daily Eastern News noticed a problem: Eastern students celebrating homecoming do not like to clean up after themselves. 

The wind at the game blew plastic bags and cups into the air, which will become more of the countless garbage already littering our earth. 

The plastic cups lined the lawns of various Fraternity party houses long after the lights went out and they played ‘Closing Time’. 

It is our responsibility to make sure this trash does not end up on lawns, on streets, or in the lake; it is up to every one of us to keep campus and the earth as clean as we can. 

This means recycling even when you do not feel like it or it is not easy. 

It means watching how much trash you are creating in a day and thinking about where that trash will end up. 

It means taking less plastic shopping bags and using real silverware and plates over plastic ones. 

This weekend highlighted how much trash Eastern students have been disregarding and how little care they tend to show campus and the surrounding areas. 

If we do not make an effort to clean up and recycle, no one will. 

A million people thinking ‘I’ll just throw this one cup on the ground’ still equals one million cups littering the streets. 

Hold yourself and each other accountable in all you do, especially during weekends as busy as homecoming can be. 

Your trash is your responsibility and laziness is not an excuse for littering.