The majority of individuals who are angry about pollution either file a petition, send a letter, or just complain to anyone who will listen. Few believe that getting a boat and beginning to remove the trash yourself is the only practical approach. Even fewer transform that one choice into a movement with tens of thousands of volunteers and dozens of rivers. That is essentially the trajectory of Chad Pregracke's career, which started off as a simple annoyance at what he kept seeing beneath the surface of the river he grew up next to rather than with a big strategy.
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