shell diver and began to notice the heaps of debris in the
waterway — one that supplies drinking water to 18 million people in more than 50 U.S. cities.
“I saw thousands of barrels, thousands of tires, cars, trucks and tops of school buses... I got sick of seeing it and just wanted to do something about it,” he said.
Pregracke got a small fund from a company in 1997 and spent that summer cleaning a 35mile stretch of the river by himself. He would transport the trash by boat and sort it on his parents? lawn to be recycled. By year?s end, he had singlehandedly pulled around 45,000 pounds of trash out of the river.
His nonprofit now has a fleet of boats.
And while he has resources and knowhow, he depends on each community he visits to supply the manpower needed to get the job done. At the cleanup sites, Pregracke?s humor creates cheerful atmosphere — something he knows is necessary for the work that they do. His team uses motivational speeches and music to get the volunteers amped up (陶醉).
“We do everything in our power to get people excited about it,” Pregracke said. “We want people to leave feeling good about what they did so they’ll contribute more here.”
Pregracke views his work as a different kind of service to the country.
“A lot of people call me a conservationist or an environmentalist, but the thing is I’m no different than anybody else,” he said.
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