Gittin’ litter: city installs in-stream trash collection device
A Litter Gitter, installed by the Fresh Water Land Trust, collects bottles and other debris that flows in a creek off 7th Street North in Birmingham on April 9. Photo by Erin Nelson. When it rains in the Birmingham-metro area, runoff flows into Homewood creeks and streams through the stormwater drains — including lots of […]
Freshwater Land Trust awarded EPA’s Trash-Free Waters Grant
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA – Freshwater Land Trust and partners were recently awarded a $500,000 project grant over three years from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Trash-Free Waters program. Freshwater Land Trust is one of seventeen recipients and one of three recipients located in Alabama. The major goals of the funded project are to remove trash in or about to enter waterways, specifically […]
What is a Litter Gitter?
The Litter Gitter is more than a catchy name – it’s a device that’s changing the way we tackle the challenges posed by litter in our waters. When it rains, stormwater runoff flows into drains and pipes that feed into our creeks and lakes, carrying with it litter and other types of pollution that degrade […]
“Litter Gitter” on Birmingham’s Valley Creek captures over 148 pounds of trash
I don’t know about you, but nothing upsets me more than seeing trash in a creek. Well, that’s all about to change thanks to a dynamic public-private partnership led by the Freshwater Land Trust. Litter Gitter According to the group, in December 2019, a business called the Osprey Initiative installed a Litter Gitter device at the headwaters of […]