I conducted a photo survey of plastic bags and other trash in a small area of Tacony Creek Park along Cresentville Road from Hammond Ave to Adams Ave on Sunday, April 26, 2015. This map shows this area of the Park.
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- Plastic bag in Tacony Creek Park tree by Hammond Ave.
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- This plastic bag will stay in Park for a long time.
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- Steep bank makes cleanup very difficult.
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- Steep bank makes cleanup very difficult.
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- Steep bank makes cleanup very difficult.
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- Steep bank makes cleanup very difficult.
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- Steep bank makes cleanup very difficult.
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- Pedestrian and vehicular littering
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- Stormwater carries plastic bags to Tacony Creek
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- Tacony Creek Park: Cresentville Rd & Hammond St
Groups like the Tookany-Tacony-Frankford Creek Watershed Partnership have many volunteer cleanups throughout the year. Unfortunately, the litter load is too much for the volunteers and the City’s Streets and Parks & Recreation Department to keep up. We must begin to reduce the plastic trash load by reducing the use of unnecessary plastic in our.
Please help protect Tacony Creek park, our neighborhoods and creeks by supporting Councilman Mark Squilla’s Philadelphia Single Use bag fee bill 150373 before Philadelphia City Council.
Please let you City Councilor know that you care about our Parks, Creeks and Rivers an that you support Bill 150373.