United By Blue Removed 266.5 Pounds of Trash from the Schuylkill River
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Location: Bartram's Garden Philadelphia PA
Date: August 07, 2012
On Tuesday, August 7th, the banks of the Schuylkill River were packed with an assortment of random trash items and over 60 fellow Philadelphia community members.
Our Weird Trash Collection
A plastic chicken and waffles accompanied with a real can of whipped cream
A farmer Ernie stuffed doll (he was sans Bert)
Baby doll leg
A bucket of kitchen knives
Pedicure Toe Separator
Trash Tallies
Plastic Bottle Count: 847
Aluminum Cans: 63
Glass Bottles:38
We’d Like To Thank These Folks for Their Help
Our regular Bartram’s volunteers and new friends
buildOn students
Levi’s employees
Ikea South Philly employees
B Lab members and fellow B Corporations- Recyclebank, Barber Gale Group, and One Village Coffee (along with their delicious iced coffee)
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