Judy and everyone: Count me as one of the many who are fed up with the folks who litter. Think of all of the things that could be done with the money that is spent cleaning up after people who litter. Every since 7-11 moved to Charles Street, the litter on my block has increased. No surprise there. Maybe what we need is to pressure stores like 7/11 and fast food places to begin an anti-litter campaign. Until then, my neighbors and I continue to pick up others' trash. We would be knee deep in it if we didn't.<br>
<br>I gather people litter because they think someone else will clean up after them or, as a friend recently overheard a man say to one of his kids at the bus stop on Greenmount and 33rd, it will just "blow away." Thank goodness the kid didn't listen to her father's advice to leave a wrapper on the ground and threw it in a nearby trash can. <br>
<br>Thanks, Judy for sending this around. Dawna Cobb<br><br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:09 PM, judy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdydee@verizon.net" target="_blank">jdydee@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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(July 19, 2012) – The citizens of
Baltimore have spoken. They are
tired of the trash from litterers
flowing into Baltimore’s waterways.
Baltimore’s Department of Public Works
(DPW) heard the call and recently
installed
five storm drain trash catchers </span><span>around
town
to snag litter before it goes down the
storm drains and into the city’s
waterways. </span></div>
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people litter, most of it goes down
our
storm drains and winds up in the
water –soda bottles and cans,
McDonald’s
burger containers, you name it,”
said DPW Director Alfred H. Foxx.
“The
installation of these types of
devices is a part of our ongoing
effort to address
trash removal in both the northwest
branch (Inner Harbor) and the middle
branch
of the Patapsco River.”</span></span></div>
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<div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5;font-weight:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size:13px;color:#232323;font-style:normal"><span>The storm
drain trash catcher (also called
a catch basin) is an inlet to the
system that typically includes a grate
where
stormwater enters the catch basin, and
a sump to capture debris and other
associated
pollutants. </span><span>W</span><span>hen
it
rains: a retractable screen on the
drain opens; a second screen inside
the
drain captures the trash where DPW’s
maintenance workers vacuum.</span><b><span>
</span></b><span>Baltimore
was selected by the California
contractor <a href="http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTIwNzE5LjkxNjQ2NzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTIwNzE5LjkxNjQ2NzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzA4MzgwNiZlbWFpbGlkPWpkeWRlZUB2ZXJpem9uLm5ldCZ1c2VyaWQ9amR5ZGVlQHZlcml6b24ubmV0JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://wcstorm.com/" style="color:#1d5782" target="_blank">West
Cost Storms, Inc.</a> — who provided
the labor and materials for the
installation at no cost — as a site
for product testing. </span></div>
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Fayette and Port streets location,
DPW’s
partner Blue Water Baltimore recently
joined community members, BANNER
neighborhood's Leanna Wetmore and
street artist Adam Stab to decorate
the storm
drain trash catcher with some original
artwork: <a href="http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTIwNzE5LjkxNjQ2NzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTIwNzE5LjkxNjQ2NzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzA4MzgwNiZlbWFpbGlkPWpkeWRlZUB2ZXJpem9uLm5ldCZ1c2VyaWQ9amR5ZGVlQHZlcml6b24ubmV0JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&101&&&http://dpwphotoshare.smugmug.com/Events/Storm-Drain-Art-Fayette-and/23563606_57FjtC#%21i=1905888220&k=vs9qGMS" style="color:#1d5782" target="_blank">a
Maryland crab</a>. </span></div>
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about Litter: </span></b><span>According
to
Keep America Beautiful <a href="http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=ZWFzPTEmbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTIwNzE5LjkxNjQ2NzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTIwNzE5LjkxNjQ2NzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzA4MzgwNiZlbWFpbGlkPWpkeWRlZUB2ZXJpem9uLm5ldCZ1c2VyaWQ9amR5ZGVlQHZlcml6b24ubmV0JmZsPSZleHRyYT1NdWx0aXZhcmlhdGVJZD0mJiY=&&&102&&&http://www.kab.org/site/PageServer?pagename=focus_litter_prevention#WHOWHY" style="color:#1d5782" target="_blank">2009
National Litter and Cost Survey</a>:<b><span></span></b></span></div>
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<li style="color:#232323"><b><span>Litter
cleanup costs the U.S. almost
$11.5 billion each year</span></b><span>,
with businesses paying $9.1 billion.
Governments, schools, and other
organizations pick up the remainder.</span><span></span></li>
<li style="color:#232323"><span>The
presence of litter in a community
takes a toll on the quality of life,
property values and housing prices
by 7 percent.</span><span></span></li>
<li style="color:#232323"><span>Confection
(candy, gum, etc.) ranks at the top
by 53.7 percent followed by
cigarette butts at 29.8 percent as
litter dropped at “<b>transition
points”</b> or where items must be
discarded before entering, including
in storm drains. </span></li>
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information about DPW’s new storm
drain trash catchers,
please call <a href="tel:410.545.6541" value="+14105456541" target="_blank">410.545.6541</a>.</span></div>
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