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Laurel Creek Cleanup Results

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Laurel Creek
15kg

of plastics and debris hauled out of Laurel Creek in the last 7 months by hand and by paddle. We intercept debris upstream, before it fragments into microplastics or leaches chemicals into our lakes. Help keep our waters clean:

How much debris did we remove?
≈ 3 Canada geese, lifted out of the river
lifted out of the river

15 kg of debris kept out of the Great Lakes

Everything we collect on shore or on the water helps reduce downstream pollution in our Great Lakes. Debris is landfill, tires and metal, weighed in kilograms.

Debris 15 kg

29 recyclables diverted to the blue bin

Cans and bottles removed from our watershed, counted as items rather than weighed, and diverted to the blue bin program.

Bottles 13
Cans 16

Every dot = 2 items · one column per week

1.1 hours on the water

We cleaned 1 unique site along Laurel Creek since April 17, 2026.

Volunteer hours 1.1
100+ Cleanups 1,426+ kg Debris Removed 186+ Volunteer Hours 2,269+ Items Recycled 15+ River Corridors