Clam Bayou’s New Litter Gitter
A cage-like device floating in Clam Bayou – dubbed “litter gitter” by scientists – has one job to do: report on the amount and types of waste in Florida waterways. The Osprey Initiative team, in conjunction with the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, deployed Clam Bayou’s “litter gitter” on Tuesday, May 4 in an effort to […]
Litter Gitters deployed in Bay Area waterways to remove trash
TAMPA, Fla. – A new device being deployed into area waterways could help to remove trash and protect the environment. The Tampa Bay Estuary Program and other local environmental groups are working with Osprey Initiative to install the first Litter Gitters in the Tampa Bay area. The device works as a trash trap to intercept litter and funnel […]
How the Litter Gitter removes trash from waterways
This story originally aired on FOX13 Tampa Bay. View the original story here.
Litter Gitter grabs 2,000-plus pounds in year
Tangipahoa Parish Government has signed a contract to continue funding a Litter Gitter in Ponchatoula Creek for another six months using grant funds. Over the past year, one Litter Gitter has collected 208 pounds of debris and 743 pounds of litter from Ponchatoula Creek, allowing 213 pounds of litter to be recycled and another 530 […]
Talking litter with Midday Mobile
Sean Sullivan with FM Talk 1065 talked to Don Bates from Osprey Initiative about all things Litter Gitter. They talk about how trash is making it into our waters, coordinating clean up of the watersheds with the city, and how weather events affect their work.
Volunteers hit the water in Baldwin County for the 5th annual floating cleanup
BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WPMI) — Volunteers gathered in Baldwin County Saturday for the South Alabama Land Trust’s fifth annual floating cleanup on Magnolia River near Week’s Bay. Volunteers from both Mobile and Baldwin counties took kayaks and canoes out onto the water to collect trash. “Picking up the trash, retrieving the trash, is certainly helpful from […]
More than 2,000 Pounds of Trash Collected in Charlotte Rivers
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – About a year ago the city of Charlotte received a device to help collect trash from the rivers. A “Litter Gitter” is a floating collection device that helps stop trash from flowing further downriver. Once a week, the engagement manager for the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation, Greg Nance, comes out to the creeks […]
Litter Gitter installed in Trussville’s Pinchgut Creek
A new device has been installed in Pinchgut Creek, in Trussville, and the purpose is to help keep the waterway clean. The “Litter Gitter” is one of 10 across Jefferson County. The device in Trussville was funded by the Jefferson County Department of Health, which also funded a device in Brighton. The Litter Gitter will […]
Parish tackles uphill battle against litter
Keep Tangipahoa Beautiful and Osprey Initiative recently sponsored a litter cleanup in the Manchac area to tackle a place that continues to be treated like a dumping site. Eight volunteers, including Councilwomen Kim Coates and Brigette Delatte Hyde, picked up 135 bags of trash, a commode and a motor on the low road. “Overall it […]
Above the Waterline: Finding solutions to keep our waterways clean
Trash can be a galvanizing topic for most people, especially river and nature lovers. We are disgusted at the sight of the plastic bottles and bags, single-use products, Styrofoam, and balls of every sort that float in the water—moving from one riverbank to another on voyages downstream or sinking to the river bottom. Most of […]
What do our trash traps really trap?
What do our trash traps really trap? Chattahoochee Riverkeeper takes a deep dive into the effectiveness of in-stream Litter Gitters Nearly everyone that has ventured into our region’s recreational areas has noticed a bit of trash around trails and parking lots; but what many fail to realize is that trash littered on land will inevitably […]
Removing trash from our creeks, 8th litter gitter in Jefferson County installed at East Lake Park
Here is some good news. Jefferson County’s creeks and streams are getting cleaner. Thanks to a grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation, on October 1st, a litter gitter trash collection device was installed in Village Creek at East Lake Park. This is the eighth litter gitter device placed in Jefferson County. Like every “litter gitter” installation in […]
New litter traps keep plastic bags, bottles, diapers out of Birmingham waterways
At a massive culvert under 7th Street North in Birmingham, the underground springs flowing beneath the city’s downtown corridor emerge to see the light of day, becoming Valley Creek, a major tributary of the Black Warrior River. For years it was one of the most heavily littered spots in the city, as thousands of bottles, […]
Riverkeeper, KSBB and city to trap trash in creek on way to Ogeechee
Ogeechee Riverkeeper, Keep Statesboro-Bulloch Beautiful and the city plan to lower the boom – a boom-type litter trap – on floating trash in Little Lott’s Creek. Keep Statesboro-Bulloch Beautiful, or KSBB, is a Keep America Beautiful affiliate sponsored by Statesboro’s city government, while Ogeechee Riverkeeper is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the Ogeechee […]
Riverkeeper, KSBB and city to trap trash in creek on way to Ogeechee
Ogeechee Riverkeeper, Keep Statesboro Bulloch Beautiful and the city plan to lower the boom – a boom-type litter trap – on floating trash in Little Lott’s Creek. Keep Statesboro Bulloch Beautiful, or KSBB, is a Keep America Beautiful affiliate sponsored by Statesboro’s city government, while Ogeechee Riverkeeper is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting […]
Parish cleanup despite weather
TEAM EFFORT – Major trash was cleared from areas near Ponchatoula like the sites seen here thanks to an effort from DSLD Homes partnering with Keep Tangipahoa Beautiful. Photo by Ginger Tasetet. South Tangipahoa Parish got a little more beautiful Saturday. DSLD Homes and Keep Tangipahoa Beautiful worked together for the litter cleanup Saturday on […]
Parish installs second litter device
Waterway cleanup has become a focus in Tangipahoa Parish. Tangipahoa Parish Government installed its second Litter Gitter on Saturday. DSLD sponsored the installation of this device at Selsers Creek, where it will remain for 12 months, catching litter on the creek from all the tribulations from the Hammond Airport flowing south. The Litter Gitter, an […]
Homewood installs Litter Gitter after delay due to COVID-19
Don Bates ties a knot in the rope as he connects the line of buoys to the caged floatation device of the Litter Gitter during the installation of the device in Griffin Brook along Broadway Street in Homewood on May 27. Photo credit: Erin Nelson The first Homewood Litter Gitter was installed May 27 in […]
Trash Capture in the Proctor Creek Watershed
Trash capture in the Proctor Creek watershed serves as an example of interagency collaboration and private sector engagement to advance clean, trash-free communities. The Proctor Creek Urban Waters Federal Partnership ambassador and the Region 4 Trash Free Waters coordinator work closely to leverage resources and reach goals within the community. Thanks in part to their […]
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 […]
“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 […]
Data released from Litter Gitter pilot project
In December 2019, Osprey Initiative installed a Litter Gitter device at the headwaters of Valley Creek in downtown Birmingham as a pilot project. The adjustable device intercepts floating litter from stormwater runoff. We are excited to report the data from the three-month pilot period: December 5-31, 2019: A total of 37.98 pounds / 49.5 cubic feet of litter was removed, […]
Cleaning local waterways
A device called the “litter gitter” is cleaning trash out of Charlotte’s waterways. Click here to view the story on WCNC’s news site, where it originally appeared.
The Litter Gitter Cleans Charlotte Waterways
CHARLOTTE, NC — Envision Charlotte partnered with Coca Cola Consolidated to launch “Project Litter Gitter” to help clean Charlotte waterways. They are going to analyze the garbage caught, identify where it’s coming from and try to stop the litter from clogging streams. WCCB cameras were out there when they put one of the litter gitters in […]
“Litter Gitter” Helps Clean Creeks and Streams in Charlotte
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A new device is helping get trash out of waterways in Charlotte. “Litter Gitters” were installed in three streams around Charlotte this week Trash is collected and analyzed to determine source and ways to stop it Coca-Cola Consolidated paid for all three Litter Gitters in Charlotte and an entire year of maintenance Wayne Moyers […]
Litter Gitter gets its first test as water rises on the Mill Creek
EVENDALE, Ohio — A new device is in place for the first time and is being tested as heavy rain brings rising levels of water and trash to Mill Creek. “This device is called a Litter Gitter,” said Dave Schmitt, executive director of the Mill Creek Alliance. “It has a couple of booms stretched across […]
‘Litter Gitters’ Being Deployed To Get Trash Out Of Mill Creek
Despite vast improvements in water quality, the Mill Creek still gets a bad rap. A pilot program launching this week aims to remove additional trash from the waterway as one way to improve public perception. “One of our main goals is to bring people back to the creek,” says Dave Schmitt, executive director of the […]
Freshwater Land Trust installs “Litter Gitter” at Valley Creek
We all know litter is bad for the environment, yet it continues to be a problem. Last week, Freshwater Land Trust, Osprey Initiative, River Network and the City of Birmingham installed a “Litter Gitter” in Valley Creek to help with the issue. What’s a Litter Gitter? A Litter Gitter is an in-stream litter collection device. It’s a […]
An end to littered waters in Alabama, thanks to ‘litter gitters’
MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) -News 5 Colleen Peterson set sail in the waterways of Mobile Bay with Don Bates, owner of Osprey Initiative. He invented ‘litter gitters’ which is a device that helps filter out the litter from the creeks. His company is partnered with the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (MBNEP). Rain and wind events […]