Need in Portland, ME
Green Youth Team Environmental Action
Where: Portland, ME
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The Green Youth Team gathered for pizza after Liturgy on December 18, 2022 with Ben Hansel as our guest. Ben works for an Environmental Consultant Firm hired by local Maine towns to research and document the sources of Trash pollutants entering our wastewater systems, as mandated by the State of Maine. Those pollutants are hazardous to our clean Maine water reservoirs and wildlife in brooks, streams, rivers, lakes and ocean. Ben helped us to install an app that his company created to track and document the locations. We used our pickers, gloves and trash bags to collect several bags of trash and along the way; we sang Christmas carols to the neighborhood. It was a fun event and we all learned a lot thanks to Ben Hansel and our Green Youth Team.
What's needed
- Participate in environmental cleanup events, such as collecting trash with pickers, gloves, and trash bags.