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Friends of Upper Delaware River Receive Grant
Have you ever heard of the Japanese Knotweed plant? Me neither, so you are not alone. But the Friends of the Upper Delaware River have and they are on the alert to make sure we know about it too.
The Japanese Knotweed is a damaging and pervasive and invasive plant that is currently spreading throughout the watershed.
Friends of the Upper Delaware River in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, National Park Service, New York League of Conservation Voters, Stroud Research Center, and Shippensburg University received a federal Delaware Watershed Conservation Fund grant in 2019 to educate the public and better understand the impacts of the spread of Japanese Knotweed in the Upper Delaware River watershed.
Bottle bill states see drop in related litter, 2020 study finds
For all of the communities reporting observed increases in litter over the last year, Keep America Beautiful has an updated estimate on the scope of the problem: 50 billion pieces across the U.S. The organization this month released a report on its extensive 2020 research campaign, which for the first time measured litter along waterways in addition to along roadways.
KAB estimated the amount of litter along U.S. waterways and found it exceeds the problem along roadways (25.9 billion pieces of litter versus 23.7 billion). Across roadways and waterways, about 39% of litter is believed to be made of plastic.