MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile Baykeeper turned a Saturday into a neighborhood spruce-up, hosting a cleanup starting at 9 a.m. at the corner of Marrion and Lawrence streets, near Three Mile Creek and Owens Elementary School.
The effort is part of the group’s “Reduce the Use” campaign, an anti-litter initiative funded through a federal grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Baykeeper runs the campaign in conjunction with the City of Mobile, the Downtown Mobile Alliance and Plastic Free Gulf Coast.
Targeting litter before it reaches the water
The idea behind Reduce the Use is straightforward: less single-use plastic and less roadside trash means less debris washing into storm drains and creeks, and ultimately into the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and Mobile Bay. Cleanups near Three Mile Creek put volunteers where that runoff funnel begins.
Volunteers were supplied with bags and gloves to collect litter from streets and greenspace around the school and the creek corridor, part of a broader push to improve one of Mobile’s most visible urban waterways.