Microplastics in the water have increasingly become a problem.

By 2050, there will be more plastic containers, pieces by volume than fish in all the oceans of the world.

Anything that's grown here, high water event, it's going to end up in the river.

You could be so far removed from here.

You could be seeing Mountain Top or in the Back Mountain.

Anything around there will get caught up and end up in another stream that will end up in the river.

So that's one of the reasons we do this type of work.

My name is John Mayday.

I'm the volunteer executive director for the Riverfront Parks Committee.

Well, we, what we're walking through here is one of my favorite places because it overlooks the river and it overlooks, the, the Market Street bridge.

You'll notice, some of these trees that are planted here.

We planted these through here, through some of our Earth Day events.

Oh, they do a little fishing.

Good.

You know, when I come down here, when I'm down through here, when we do our cleanups, I'm always reminded of that first day we were here.

When I was here.

You know, all these many years back in 1990 or so, when we had all that trash here and, you know, the major cleanup, 3 or 400 bags.

And now look where it is today.

It's really changed.

35 plus years ago, when we walked from the the arches of the Market Street bridge down towards the Olmstead Trail.

We picked about 400 bags of trash over the time that has diminished.

And that's to the work of all these volunteers.

35 years ago, people would say, it's a dump.

Look at it today it's pristine.

And that's because people became involved and helped out and worked at it.

People will come down here, stay late at night and dump stuff.

Some people will just dump bags of trash.

This is ending up in your food source.

The other thing is, animals and fish think they're food.

They eat them.

They can't digest.

They die if we don't act now.

Microplastics will keep breaking down and spreading, ending up in our rivers and into our oceans.

But by coming together, we've shown that we can make a difference.

When you're doing something.

Think about the impact of what it is you're doing, the consequences of your decision, and how you can make a difference.