UBB Removed 879 Pounds of Trash from the Schuylkill River

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Location: Bartram's Garden Philadelphia PA

Date: April 03, 2012

A record-breaking 65 volunteers spent a beautiful spring evening cleaning up the banks of the Schuylkill River at Bartram’s Garden.

We nearly had enough parts to build a car with all of our weird trash submissions, which included a car engine, car hood, part of a car door, tires, a plastic duck, a bottle capper, and the back of a TV. Surprisingly, we only picked up one bag of plastic bottles, where we are usually inundated by shoreline plastic. 

We Would Like to Thank:
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Alpha Chi Rho brothers from Drexel University
Penn Environmental Group, Alpha Phi Omega, & Seas Green from University of Pennsylvania