10 Ways You Can Help the Bay
- Talk to your teacher or principal about planting trees or other plants around your school playground.
- Help your parents plant a rain garden. These gardens can help reduce water pollution by allowing rain water to be absorbed directly into the ground.
- Start a recycling program with your classmates and friends. Collect empty plastic bottles, newspapers, and cardboard boxes and ask a parent to drive you to your local recycling center once a week.
- Conserve water by taking shorter showers and turning off the water while you brush your teeth.
- Participate in a Bay clean up effort.
- Power plants are one of the biggest sources of pollution. Turning off lights and other electronics when you’re not using them decreases the amount of pollution these plants produce.
- Spend a day on or near the water. Talk to your parents and teachers about organizing a family or school trip to one of the many streams or rivers of the Bay and get back in touch with nature.
- Reduce the amount of trash you and your family produce. Talk you your parents about starting a composting program in your household. Composting allows organic products (like food) to rot and be used as fertilizer for household gardens or plants.
- Start your own Chesapeake Bay organization within your school to help raise money to Save the Bay.
- Tell your parents to donate to the Chesapeake Bay and Endangered Species Fund or to purchase a Bay Plate for $20. All of the proceeds from Bay Plates go directly into funding Bay cleanup and education efforts.
