We have a serious plastic stormwater trash problem that is hurting our local creeks, Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers as well as the Atlantic Ocean. This photo gallery shows my 10/13/14 trash survey along the West Deptford, NJ Delaware River bank. (PDF here)
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- Delaware River Bank Trash – W Deptford NJ (10/13/14)
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- Close up of survey area.
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- Polystyrene – Fish & birds often mistake for food
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- High tide carries floating trash to bank, gets caught as tide runs out
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- Plastic litter dropped on land carried to River by stormwater
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- This trash will keep moving as it gets refloated with next high tide
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- Drift wood and drift trash
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- Drift trash never looks good
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- Beautiful River, ugly trash
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- We have to stop this!
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- Old tire – Notice greenish algae buildup.
Pennsylvania and New Jersey litter gets washed into local creeks during rain storms and makes its way down stream to the Delaware where it gets moved around by wind and tide. Some gets caught on W Deptford’s river shoreline.