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Every year, thousands of volunteers come together to pick up trash from local streams, creeks, rivers, parks, and neighborhoods as part of the Alliance’s Project Clean Stream.
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In recognition of the National Day of Service on Wednesday, September 11, The Alliance kicked off the fall 2024 Project Clean Stream season in Pennsylvania, Annapolis, Washington, DC, and Virginia!
Every year, Project Clean Stream (PCS) hosts several trash pickups, drawing tens of thousands of volunteers to come together with the common goal of cleaning up and promoting the health and restoration of their local waterways.
The Alliance kicked off yet another year of Project Clean Stream. So far, we’ve held 23 events and collected over 6,500 pounds of trash from the Chesapeake Bay watershed!
During cleanup events, there is usually a plethora of visual litter that is quite easy to collect. However, at second glance, you can discover just how much trash is camouflaged within the environment!
The Alliance kicked off our 21st Project Clean Stream season this past weekend! Collectively, we gather over 1200 pounds of trash throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Join me in celebrating the four community events we hosted.
As I thought about the spring season, I wanted to celebrate the 21-year history of engaging local communities. So I rallied four site captains, one from each of our office locations, and challenged them to create a kick-off event that would encourage collective effort in removing trash from local communities.
Of the 69 events we hosted, 39 got back to us with their results. Based on the results submitted by our site captains, we removed roughly 68,834 pounds of trash from entering our waterway with the help of 1,095 volunteers. With that being said of the 30 events of results that weren’t recorded- we can estimate that over 100,000 pounds of trash were removed this PCS season. That’s almost twice as much as last year!
This spring will be my last time coordinating Project Clean Stream as I take on new responsibilities in our communications department. I wish it were possible to shake the hand of each of the volunteers and site captains and tell them how they helped form my own sense of community. My time has with them has shown me the importance of getting your loved ones, your community, and even strangers to form lasting relationships by, of all things, picking up trash.
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