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Heavy rains = lots of trash on Little Rock Creek
Posted on February 16th, 2023![](https://soundrivers.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/RALEIGH-TRASH-TROUT-CLEANOUT_230213_ENEWS_02.jpg)
The Raleigh Trash Trout on Little Rock Creek got a fourth clean-out this week, and the recent storms did not disappoint in filling the litter trap up.
“There was lots of trash this time around, after the big rains — tons of plastic bottles and Styrofoam containers,” said Neuse Riverkeeper Samantha Krop.
Finds of particular interest include three tennis balls and a child’s shoe, Sam said.
Preston Ross III and Tyler Owens, of The Great Raleigh Cleanup, came out for the clean-out with Sam and Sound Rivers’ intern William Wallace.
Here are the totals from the Feb. 13 cleanout:
Plastic film
61 plastic bags
27 food wrappers
3 plastic film fragments
Hard plastic
61 bottles
1 cup
11 straws
10 cigarette butts
11 fragments
23 labeled other
Styrofoam
20 cups
11 takeout containers
20 pieces of packing material
125 fragments
Metal
1 drink can
2 other
2 fragments
Glass
3 bottles
1 fragment
Other Material
1 piece of fabric
5 pieces of sports equipment
8 other (lightbulb, needle, binkie, aluminum foil, wood)
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