For five years now, Chad Pregracke, a 26-year old Illinois resident, has been on a heroic personal mission to clean up the Mississippi. His efforts have won him an award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
"For five years now, he has been hauling junk out of the Mississippi River" - refrigerators, washing machines, even a van. His team members "also have hauled in the top half of a school bus. One 1950 International Harvester truck. And at last count: 3,608 tires, 1,012 steel drums, 64 television sets, four canoes and two prosthetic legs...He started his river cleanup mission when he was just a few years out of high school...Now there's a nonprofit foundation, a board of directors and a roster of corporate donors to fund a $300,000-a-year budget...He's won a prestigious award from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. His work has been featured on CNN and in Time and Life magazines."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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