Stormwater Education: What’s the Big Deal About a Candy Wrapper?

Municipalities use a children’s book in educational outreach programs to explain how nonpoint pollutants entering storm drains can flow all the way to the ocean.

In the book All the Way to the Ocean by Joel Harper, James tosses a candy wrapper to the curb.

“Hey, what are you doing?” his best friend, Isaac, asks. “Did you just drop your wrapper into the storm drain?”

“Yeah, what’s the big deal?” James says.

“It’s a big deal because...

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