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1. How wide and deep is the Mississippi?
2. What kind of trash is in the Mississippi River?
3.Where is the trash taken?
4. How many people does it take to clean it up?
5. Does the community water come from the Mississippi?
6. What other waterways does he clean up?
7. Why are people throwing trash in the river?

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Chad Pregracke
Operation Cleanup

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Why the Hero Got Started with the Foundation

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Why the Hero Got Started with the Foundation

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Chad began cleaning up the river because he was tired of seeing piles of trash in the waterways. He noticed this trash while he was working as a Shell driver. "The Mississippi River provides drinking water over 18 million people in over 50 cities."

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He has removed 67,000 tires.

He has removed 218 washing machines.

He has removed 19 tractors.

He has removed 12 hot tubs.

He has removed 4 pianos.

He has removed 1,000 refrigerators.

70,000 volunteers have joined his program to help.

Every year, he conducts 70 cleanups. Fifty communities benefit from these cleanups.

He teaches high schoolers about the dangers of pollution.

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Visit livinglandsandwaters.org
to help or donate.

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Toner, Kathleen, and Erika Clarke. “Taking out the Rivers' Trash, One Piece at a Time.” CNN, Cable News Network, 18 Nov. 2013, www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/cnnheroes-pregracke-rivers-garbage/index.html.

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1. "The garbage got into the water one piece at a time, and that's the only way it's going to come out."
2. "I'm creating a chance for people to go out there and do something positive. Talking is great, but it doesn't do much at all. Action is what I'm all about."

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Chad Pregracke and his nonprofit have removed more than 7 million pounds of garbage from 22 rivers across the country.