is chad pregracke s passion. over the past 17 years, he has developed an elaborate system to get the job done. it started off with one boat to now we have tow boats, cranes, fork boats. at the heart of the effort is a massive 800 pound barge. the tow boat bushes it wherever we need to go. three of the barges are used to unload and store the thousands of pounds of trash that chad collects. it looked like a floating junkyard but it s much more than that. this is what we call as a crew the garbage barge. actually all of the bag we need to go through and recycle as much as we can. over here this is our recycling barge. everything on this barge gets recycled. all of the tires, the appliances, the batteries, the
he s developed an elaborate system to get the job done. what started off with just one boat has turned into the only river cleanup operation in the world. we have boats, crane boat. at the heart is an 800 ton massive barge. it s four small irbarges put together. the toe boat pushes it wherever it needs to go. three of the barges are used to unload and store the tons of trash. it looks like a floating junk yard, but it s much more than that. so this is what we call the garbage barge, but it s not all garbage. actually all the bags, we need to go through every bottle, can, recycle as much as we can. this is our recycling barge. everything on this barge gets recycled. all the tires, appliances, batteries, propane tanks, cars. 85% of everything we bring in get the row cycled.