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| Trash collected by Viridian Energy volunteers |
With over 100 individuals from Scouts, church groups, and companies volunteering at this event, we needed to spread the workforce over the landscape. I took a group to a nearby municipal park where a tributary draining the main commercial hub for the region originates. Because of the commercial activity in this stream's headwaters, we can always count on collecting plenty of trash on the floodplain.
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| Round Meadow Run, the tributary where I worked, near its mouth |
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| Viridian Energy volunteers |
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| Round Meadow Run (foreground) joining "my" creek (right) |
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| "My" creek is too large to ford easily, so volunteers from Planet Aid used a downed tree |
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| Heading back for lunch |
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| The three Planet Aid volunteers; it's not apparent in the image, but Dave (center) had fallen in the creek |
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| Very pregnant Lavonne (left), our marketing guru, and Kali distributed t-shirts |
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| Lunch in the picnic area |
4 comments:
What a terrific event, Scott. Major kudos. It's great to see people coming together to work on such a worthwhile project.
I've got to admit that when I first clicked on your post the impression I had of your first image was that of a group of people standing behind the carcass of a whale.
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Scott: boy, that looks like a lot of trash to me! Great clean-up job!
Carolyn: While the amount of trash collected by my group was respectable, it was by no means any sort of record for the area where we were cleaning. When the cleanup has been preceded by a big flood, we can easily get twice as much trash as I showed in my picture.
My volunteers from Viridian Energy said that our creek was way to clean for them already. They said that they had volunteered at a similar cleanup in Pennington, NJ two weeks ago. They told me that there were so many plastic bottles at the Pennington site that it literally was impossible to tell where they had cleaned even though they had spent 2-1/2 hours gathering bottles. And, I suspect all those bottles will flush into the Delaware River (and the Atlantic Ocean) with the next flood. So disheartening.
I can see the whale, now that you've pointed it out, Packrat! Whales occasionally get lost and come up into the Delaware estuary, but they could never get up our little creek, so I'll have to settle for a plastic replica.
By the way, all of our trash (including what was collected on Saturday) is hauled to co-generation incinerator, so it will produce some electricity instead of ending up directly in a landfill.
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