THE PARSIPPANY GREEN TEAM
A local effort to save our Oceans from Plastic Pollution
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Our Lives Matter too...
Don't send your trash to our Home…
Our Home is Ocean...
Fix it at your Home...
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Dear Mr.President
In your Trillion $ Infrastructure budgets, please keep our home in your thoughts...
Our home is the ocean...
The Majority of plastic pollution in the Atlantic Ocean comes from the US only...
New estimates predict tells that the Atlantic’s total plastic load is around 220.4 million U.S. tons...
The US Streets/Highways storm drains are major contributors from land sources...
Please help to fix the storm drains with no grates as a green Infra, to prevent this plastic pollution and save lives of these innocent species...
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Dear volunteers please keep up your good work...
Adopt a Street and help your Oceans...
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About us

“KeepMyStreetGreen” is a local effort to save our Oceans from Plastic Pollution by doing it through an “Adopt A Street” Program by volunteers. This project was started as an Innovative Community Project in Parsippany, NJ by its Green Team, as part of the Sustainable Jersey goals commitment and is planning to expand into more towns in NJ.
Our mission is to keep our streets and businesses free from plastic pollution which can enter our waterways through storm drains.Our first goal, to make Parsippany the first town with 99.99% compliance in the state of NJ.To achieve this mission we will collaborate with our residents, Green Teams, environmental clubs in schools, elected officials and business community members. This will improve our quality of life and environmental sustainability of our community and our waters.
Do You Know How Serious Is Ocean Pollution?
You may think that our oceans are just fine and aren’t being affected as severely from pollution. You are mistaken. Here are some facts to back up our claim.

>> There are approximately 5.25 trillions bits and chunks of plastic garbage located all around our oceans.

>> Also, about 8 million tons of plastic debris are continuously disposed of in our oceans every year.

>> 269,000 tons was the estimate of floating plastic trash bobbing in the surface of our oceans from a study in 2014.
LEARN MORE HOW PLASTIC TRASH IS AFFECTING MARINE LIFE
How Bad Plastics Are Polluting Our Oceans?
>> The amount of plastic has been massively underestimated,

>> As per new study reported in 2020, Researchers estimate that the Atlantic’s total plastic load is around 220 million U.S. tons.

>> There is at least 10 times more plastic polluting the Atlantic Ocean than previously believed.

>> An estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic hover dangerously in the ocean waters, equal to 80,000 tons and it keeps growing every year.

>> Plastic waste kills up to one million seabirds, 100,000 sea mammals, marine turtles and countless fish each year.
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How plastic is reaching our Oceans?

ONE OF THE MAJOR SOURCES ARE LAND BASED SOURCES LIKE…STORM DRAINS

How our streets are responsible?

This is a very common sight in our streets. During the last 100 years, we have engineered our streets to keep them free from flooding.

However, we have created thousands of miles of storm drain highways, which carry millions of gallons of water into streams and oceans. The same engineering marvels, because of our negligence, are carrying millions of pieces of plastic debris into our oceans.

How you can help protect the oceans?

Protect storm drains from plastic pollution:

To keep our storm drains free from plastic debris and other hazardous materials, volunteers will be picking plastic debris monthly under the “Adopt A Street” program. Keeping clean streets is not only a street beautification program, it is a program to save our next generations too.

We can address this problem locally at a community level How?

ONE SIMPLE SOLUTION WE CAN DO IS : “KEEP MY STREET GREEN
“KEEP MY STREET GREEN
Is a simple concept keeping our local streets free from plastic pollution and stopping run-off plastics infiltrating into storm drains

Our simple goals

Keep Our Storm Drains free from Plastic Debris

Keep Our Storm Drains Free from other trash/garbage

Keep our streets free from cigarette butts

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We have a seamless mobile app to track and log volunteer activities.

Have a little Compassion to save these innocent species…

You may not be able to fix the whole Ocean Pollution.

But you can at least fix your own Street pollution.

If you want to participate as your Town Admin or Team Lead/Volunteer, Please get in touch with us

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