Visit Baltimore Meeting & Event Planning Guide Winter/Spring 2020 - Sustainability Issue | Page 8

Sustaining OUR FUTURE Baltimoreans are working hard to maintain our natural resources and reduce our carbon footprint so that future generations can thrive. 10 90,536 native plants and trees planted by the National Aquarium in 2018 BILLION oysters planted: The Chesapeake Oyster Alliance’s goal to reach by 2025 20+ 676,016 URBAN FARMS PLASTIC BAGS collected from the Inner Harbor by Mr. Trash Wheel, one of Baltimore’s three (soon to be four) beloved, googly-eyed trash interceptors and more than 100 community and school gardens in the city 9,516,582 pounds of upcycled materials diverted from landfi lls into a retail warehouse by local nonprofi t Second Chance 6,000+ TREES PLANTED in Baltimore by the Tree Trust 6 75,000+ pounds of food donated to the Maryland Food Bank in 2018 by the Baltimore Convention Center, through its sustainability-focused Diversion by Donation program B A LT I M O R E . O R G 1,200 ACRES of parkland in Gwynns Falls Leakin Park, the third-largest urban wilderness park in the U.S. 250,000 megawatt hours of solar power per year supplied to Johns Hopkins University through a new partnership between the university and energy company Constellation