TRASH FREE BY 2013! Alice Ferguson Foundation Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative (TFPWI) MWCOG Meeting March 19, 2009.

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TRASH FREE BY 2013! Alice Ferguson Foundation Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative (TFPWI) MWCOG Meeting March 19, 2009

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Environmental Education on the Potomac View from the farmhouse/staff offices

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Where is the Alice Ferguson Foundation? Hard Bargain Farm – 330-acre education facility along the Potomac Ten-miles south of Woodrow Wilson Bridge in Accokeek, Maryland – Prince Georges County

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Potomac Watershed, DC, VA, MD, PA, WV

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Results of 20th Potomac Watershed Cleanup 392 Cleanup Sites 12,000Volunteers 285Tons 124,000 +Recyclable Beverage Containers 13,000 Plastic Bags Top Brands: 7-11 Budweiser Coca-Cola/ Pepsi McDonalds Congressman Steny Hoyer pitches in at the 18 th Potomac Watershed Cleanup, April 8, 2006! Save the Date: April 4, 2009

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Annual Cleanups – 20-Year Grand Total 2,023Tons (4,531,520 lbs.) of trash 62,000Volunteers Hundreds of Partners in four states & DC 1989 to 2008

TRASH FREE BY 2013! 21st Potomac Watershed Cleanup April 4, 2009

TRASH FREE BY 2013! After 20 Years of Cleanups… We Want a Trash Free Potomac! We want out of the Trash Business! Let’s get to the source (2005 – present)!

TRASH FREE BY 2013! How Do We Get to a Trash Free Potomac by 2013? The Anacostia is a major subwatershed. Trash Free Potomac Watershed Initiative

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Framework for Trash Free Initiative Legislation – LITTER & LAWS “ANACOSTIA” Regulation - TMDL Education - PROACT Enforcement - LEW Market-based - TFPF

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Elected Officials Sign Trash Treaty Over 100 committed to a Trash Free Potomac by 2013

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Bringing Attention to Trash!

TRASH FREE BY 2013! “IT’s YOUR BACK YARD” ANACOSTIA POTOMAC

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Thank You for Working Together and… …Taking Action for a Trash Free Potomac Watershed!

TRASH FREE BY 2013! Contact AFF