This last Thursday marked the 2nd annual Potomac Watershed Trash Summit. The summit brought together well over 400 people from around the area to have an open discussion and learn about our local waterways and what we can do to help make our watershed trash free. It was a venue for elected officials, concerned citizens, members of local businesses and organizations to get together and strategize to help in the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s goal of a Trash Free Potomac by 2013.

As someone who attended the event, it was good to see such an age range of participants, from high school on up, from every different sector. The goal of a Trash Free Potomac by 2013 will be a huge project, and will certainly not be successful without the interest and participation from every single citizen, organization, business and government agency of the area.

We heard from a lot of different people and talked in round table style about where we begin to make this watershed trash free. Does it start with river, creek, street and neighborhood clean-ups? Does it start with regulations and mandates on product manufacturers? Does it begin with solid recycling and reuse programs? Does it start with education on our impact that we can have on the environment?

Solution: we all have different things to contribute to making this project a success. My question to you is: no matter if you live in the Potomac Watershed, the Chesapeake or even the Columbia Watershed on the West Coast, what can you do to help make our waterways trash free?

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