The D.C. Department of Environment has $125,000 — federal stimulus funds — to help curb water pollution and dirty stormwater runoff into the city’s Anacostia river.
The funds in this grant program will go toward an effort to devise a public or policy strategy for reducing the amount of litter that ends up in the Anacostia River. After the D.C. Council passed a bill earlier this year that added a 5-cent tax to plastic bags distributed by mostly food vendors and grocers to address the river’s biggest trash offender, DDOE now hopes to focus its attention, and this contract, on the remaining big three trash items found: beverage bottles and cans, snack wrappers and expanded polystyrene foam.
The grants are targeted for nonprofits, educational institutions, and federal and local government agencies. By Verdana Sinha, Washington Business Journal.
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