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Become a StreamKeeper
StreamKeepers are dedicated waterway guardians that protect our community from the litter that’s choking our creeks and streams and carrying plastics and microplastics to the ocean. They care for the waterways in their neighborhoods, lead river and roadside cleanups, and maintain the Trash Trouts™ that protect the French Broad River watershed.
Are you already a volunteer Streamkeeper? Track your cleanups here.
Philip Blocklyn
“As a StreamKeeper, I can join a cleanup crew on the river in a boat, or in the stream in waders, or along a stream bank, or along a roadway, or at a Trash Trout, wherever. I have no particular technical abilities in anything, but there’s always a way to contribute.
We can't be choosing inaction — the problem at hand is the one I try to focus on. Saving the world is terrific. Meanwhile, we all have to care for our stretch of the creek.”
Become a StreamKeeper
Our StreamKeeper team is the difference between lazy Saturdays relaxing in a tube on the French Broad and paddling past floating plastic bottles and styrofoam to get to a part of the river where trash doesn’t ruin the view.
Some StreamKeepers devote just an hour or two per month. Others attend every cleanup. What they all have in common is the choice to take critical action to combat the litter that threatens our waterways.
We host StreamKeeper trainings twice per year. Sign up to be notified when the next training is open for registration.
StreamKeeper Interest Form
StreamKeeper Victories
This program is only a few years old, but this AMAZING team has already accomplished so much!
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42
Dedicated Volunteers
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84
Cleanup Events
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170
Hours Devoted to Protecting Our Waterways
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3,000
Pounds of Trash Collected from Rivers and Roads
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3,400
Tires Removed from Waterways
Asheville GreenWorks is known for its river cleanups, but our staff and volunteers can’t be on the river all the time. GreenWorks pioneered the Trash Trouts™ to capture litter all day, every day. The Trash Trout™ and creek-sized Trash Trout™ Jr. devices work like sieves, capturing and holding trash and plastics in cages floating on the surface of the water.
