[MUSIC - BLEU, "BREEZEWAY"]
(SINGING) Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
Usually, when I get off of work, or when it's the weekend,
and I want to spend some time outside, I walk from my house
down to a park that's close by, or just walking
kind of aimlessly honestly sometimes.
And when I do, I normally like to bring my trash grabber
and a bag just in case I come across any trash on the ground.
Of course, here I am today in Baltimore,
and there is some trash that I've just
come across right here.
So now I'm going to use the Marine Debris Tracker
app, so that we can keep track of the kinds of trash
that we're seeing.
As I come across some trash, I normally just take out
my phone, and I go to the Marine Debris Tracker app.
I make sure I take a photo, and then I go to the category that
says Paper, Paper Bags .
I add, and then I pick up the paper bag,
put it inside my reusable bag, and keep it moving.
[MUSIC - BLEU, "BREEZEWAY"]
(SINGING) Hey.
Ooh, ooh.
So I just want to give you a chance
to see the app that I'm using, so that we
can track the trash that I'm finding as I'm walking.
So I'm using the Marine Debris Tracker app.
This is what it looks like.
So we have Plastic, Medals, Glass, Cloth even, Paper,
and Lumber.
There's even such things as Fishing Gear.
You can choose one of the categories
if you wanted to just automatically jump to it,
or you can scroll the screen so that you can
choose the category yourself.
One thing that's also really cool
is that under each category, there
are kind of like these sub categories under the sections.
So under Metal, there's aluminum or tin cans, aerosol cans,
metal or bottle caps, metal fragments.
And you see that there's a spot for you
to increase the number of those type of trash that you find,
and then a place for you to hit Add
when you're ready to submit it.
And so for the ones that I've collected,
and if you want to see the ones that you might have collected,
you can go to Items Collected at the top.
It says that I have 11 items that I have logged so far.
So you just hit this arrow.
And once you hit the arrows, you'll
see a map pops up with all of the locations
where you have logged an item.
They get a pin.
So each of these 11 pins are the ones
that I've collected so far this morning.
There is seven photos that I've logged.
There are two aluminum or tin cans, one beverage bottle,
one plastic bag, two metal bottle caps.
And then when I'm ready, you just hit Submit here.
And then it will go ahead and complete my trash trip
for the day.
[MUSIC - BLEU, "BREEZEWAY"]
So it looks like we're getting close to the water, which
means we're about to finish our trash trip.
And I can notice from here just some small items
of trash on the sidewalk and even some in the water.
And so like honestly, right here in front of me, right?
It's like a wet wipe.
So we can log this of course in our app--
take this trash up like we've been
doing, especially because now we're closer to the waterway.
And so we want to make sure that we are preventing these items
from getting into the water.
There's another plastic bottle here.
So we earlier found a beverage bottle.
Here is another one.
Plastic bottle.
Add it in the bag.
I really am collecting this stuff, everybody.
There is a plastic bottle that's in the water there.
There's another piece of plastic,
and then there's something that I can't quite
make out from here, but there is something else over there
as well.
So we know that the trash can into the water.
And so we want to prevent that by picking up as much as we
see on the ground as we walk.
It's really important that we try
to keep our neighborhoods clean, and the streets clean,
and the grass clean, and because that does go into our waterway
and affects wildlife.
And we want to make sure that we have as much
of a positive impact as possible.
So everyone, I've finished my trash trip,
and it was a really great trip honestly.
I collected this bag of trash, and I'm
going to make sure that I dump it into the trash can
when I get home.
And I challenge all of you to do your own trash trip.
Use the Marine Debris Tracker app to collect your trash,
and to log it, and track it.
The goal, remember, is to keep our waterways clean
like this one.
It's a really easy and fun way for you
to get outside and do your own science.
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