The Osprey Initiative story officially began in the fall of 2017. Don was participating in a volunteer cleanup with his employer, Thompson Engineering, and the Mobile Bay National Estuary Program (MBNEP) of the Maple Street Tributary of One Mile Creek in Mobile, AL. Over 200 bags of litter were removed that day from a 400-yard section of the canal. The majority of the litter was from stormwater runoff. If this was recovered in 400-yards, how much litter remained in the hundreds of miles of watershed?

Don had already been thinking of an economical, tactical solution to prevent this very issue. Unfortunately, a few more rains would bring litter back to the place they had just cleaned. It was time to start developing his idea for a long-term solution.

Our Mission

We don’t just collect litter, we use patented technology to collect data to determine sources and solutions.