How One Man is Cleaning Up Our Rivers, 3.5 Million Lbs at a Time

GreenDimes One Person, Big Difference Series

In 1997, Chad started Living Lands and Waters where a bunch of full-timers go out and clean the Mississippi river.  Here are some of the biggies (and interesting ones) just in a year!

30,000 bags of trash

22,000 Tires

615 refrigerators

33 messages in bottles (now that’s not trash, is it?)

18 tractors

7 football fields of Styrofoam

3 school bus tops

1 jet ski (figured there be more)

What’s cool is that Chad says he sees less and less trash every year over the past 10 years, so the program is working.  Btw, if you jump on their site, there's a more in-depth video from CBS.

Thanks Chad,

Sanjiv