It's 92Lbs Cleaner Today

[Daniel Lazenby]

Thank you Cody S. and Bill W. for coming out and supporting Four Mile Run Conservatory Foundation cleanup event. (Cody and Bill subscribe to the TPFR Forum.) Overall the community turnout was great for the 26 March cleanup of the eastern section of Four Mile Run (4Mr). One community volunteer arrived in chest waders and walked the run bank pushing debris to within reach of volunteers on the bank bagging trash. 

Plastic in its many forms made up a majority of the collected trash (1.0L soda and 0.5L water bottles, aluminum cans, various kinds of wrappers, bags, styrofoam, etc). While the poundage may seem small, the volunteers collected a considerable number of bags of trash. Think of it this way. It takes about 45 plastic 0.5L water bottles or 23 plastic 1.0L soda bottles or 30 typical aluminum soda cans to equal one pound.

If just ten pounds of the weight collected Sunday was 0.5L water bottles, that would be over 450 plastic 0.5L bottles removed from the run and the Potomac River.

Daniel Lazenby

TPFR - Community Service Chair

All humans live downstream of pollution

[Owen Williams]

Amazing work, Daniel! Thanks for the efforts of Cody and Bill and yourself to clean up our urban fishery.