Baxter Stream Clean Up

Earth Day 2026 litter pick up success! Thank you to the Fort Mill High School Men’s soccer team and members of the FMHS Beta Club for volunteering! There were 46 volunteers who removed 481 pounds of litter.


Keep York County Beautiful
York Soil and Water Conservation District
Action For Nature
PalmettoPride
Fort Mill Stormwater Department
Pamela Evette
Buzz Jacket
York County Recycling
South Carolina Department of Public Health
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
Fort Mill High School
EarthDay.org
Henry Kalungi
Fort Mill High School Men's Soccer
South Carolina Litter Control Association

What’s the “street value” of 2 keys (asking for a friend!)

York County Recycling
South Carolina Litter Control Association
Fort Mill Stormwater Department
PalmettoPride
Pamela Evette

(It’s a Miami Vice fan’s “Dad Joke”, we have found drugs in the past on litter pick ups, WE KNOW exactly who to call!)

MLK Day of Service 2026! Thanks to anyone who tried to make a difference today!

30 degrees this AM. 2 hours of work for 1 person, there’s plenty out there, go make your own difference!

January 19. 2026 - “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter," - MLK. In this ten minute walk this morning, I picked up an overflowing bag of litter.


Please do your part every day, not just today.

PalmettoPride
Pamela Evette
York County Recycling
EarthDay.org
South Carolina Litter Control Association
York Soil and Water Conservation District
Keep America Beautiful
John Muir Association
SC Adopt-a-Stream
Keep York County Beautiful
Fort Mill Stormwater Department
Environmental Education Association of South Carolina
Action For Nature
Rock Hill Clean & Green

New Year, but same habit she started years ago when I started this project. My mom dropped off her plastic film today at our local Harris Teeter. ❤️

Registration is open! Want to provide service for the community? Individuals, organizations and businesses can participate. It's your county! https://www.yorkcountygov.com/DocumentCenter/View/9651/26-Polar-Bear-Litter-Pickup-Guidelines-and-Fillable-Registration

And here’s the article about the tires and the associated chemicals found in our waterways in the United States and new testing methods.

This is why the PHD student at the Clemson Toxicology lab was interested in my samples at my collection sites. The waterway that I was working in was next to the interstate and the waterways were connected to the Charleston Harbor where she was working.

https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/new-test-measures-toxin-tires-marine-life-helping-understand-risk-marine-species-andelatnt

New Test Measures Toxin from Tires in Marine Life, Helping Understand Risk to Marine Species and Ecosystems NOAA scientists develop method to track toxic chemical in finfish, shellfish, and marine mammals.

Anyone remember my time getting help from the PHD student at the Clemson Toxicology lab? This was the material she was working on, tire fragments in our waterways. She was interested in my microplastics found in my samples but also tire fragments because the areas I cleaned up were near the interstate. Although this article was out of China, similar research is happening here!

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/scientists-disturbing-discovery-human-urine-000000754.htmlag

Scientists make disturbing discovery in human urine samples: 'We urgently need to classify [this]' "Can be unexpected and far reaching."

Maybe a step in the right direction!?!?!

Coca-Cola rolls out innovative 'reverse vending machines' for college campuses: 'Will soon be a part of everyday life' "Hearing directly from students ... will give us honest, human insight."

Danielle - do your part. Please secure your loads. My grandparents’ yard is not the recycling center. Don’t be a litterbug! Keep SC - litter free.
York County Recycling
EarthDay.org
John Muir Association
SC Adopt-a-Stream
South Carolina Litter Control Association
York Soil and Water Conservation District
Keep America Beautiful
Fort Mill Stormwater Department
Keep York County Beautiful
Environmental Education Association of South Carolina
Action For Nature
PalmettoPride
Rock Hill Clean & Green
Pamela Evette
Keep Lancaster County, SC Beautiful
BSA Distinguished Conservation Service Award (formerly W.T. Hornaday award)

Sunday, July 13, 2025 - I picked up a bag of trash in my grandparents’ yard today on Highway 5.


York County Recycling
EarthDay.org
John Muir Association
SC Adopt-a-Stream
South Carolina Litter Control Association
York Soil and Water Conservation District
Keep America Beautiful
Fort Mill Stormwater Department
Keep York County Beautiful
Environmental Education Association of South Carolina
Action For Nature
PalmettoPride
Rock Hill Clean & Green
Pamela Evette
BSA Distinguished Conservation Service Award (formerly W.T. Hornaday award)
Keep Lancaster County, SC Beautiful