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County officials are working to stop illegal dumping and littering.
WUSA9 - Prince George's Co. adopted a draft climate action plan and officials are looking for community members to get involved.
WUSA9 -Tiaa Rutherford with the Prince George's County Department of the Environment discusses how the community can help reduce litter.
WUSA9 - As the Patuxent Riverkeeper, an organization he founded in 2004, Fred Tutman is a grassroots community advocate for clean water in Maryland’s longest and deepest intrastate waterway.
WUSA9 - Central High teacher Anupama Mahajan leads the “Green Team”, a group of students passionate about learning about and bettering the environment.
WUSA9 - Prince Georgian Dylan Tuttle is passionate about the environment, organizing community cleanups. And, he’s only 6 years old!
GREATER WASHINGTON — When people litter, their trash regularly makes its way from sidewalks and ditches into waterways, where it eventually begins to break down.