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