Join Keep Pearland Beautiful for their annual shoreline litter cleanup along Mary’s Creek March 12 from 7:30 to 10 am. For more information, go to www.PearlandRecycles.com or call 281-489-2795.
Volunteers can register to clean up Mary’s Creek waterway, near Centennial Park. Supplies will be provided for all volunteers. The work consists of shoreline litter cleanup alongside Mary’s Creek.
In 2021, 54 volunteers worked 136.5 hours and picked up 308 lbs. of trash and 82 lbs. of recycling items. Litter was picked up along 1.8 miles of Mary’s Creek and consisted mostly of plastic bottles, Styrofoam and food packaging. Fun finds were shopping carts, a tire and a bicycle.
For more information on past clean ups along the creek shoreline or about KPB, go to www.mykpb.org or call 281-489-2795.
The Pearland Waterways Cleanup event began in 2018 as a way to focus cleanup efforts on the creeks throughout Pearland. When it comes to litter, waterways are typically where litter can cause the biggest problems.
Any excess water on Pearland streets collects litter as it flows down to storm drains and continues on to area creeks. Also, any trash that has made its way to waterways in areas to the north will eventually flow to Pearland. These two issues combined create huge amounts of litter in the waterways.
Cleanup events, like the spring Pearland Waterways Cleanup and the quarterly Adopt-A-Spot cleanups, can help make Pearland a cleaner and greener space. This not only benefits residents and local wildlife, but all of the waterways the creeks eventually flow into.
