(lively music) - Fish for Garbage seeks to create a legacy of pollution-free waterways and shape the next generation of watershed stewards.

Board member Aaron Smith is here with more information about the first cleanup event of the year.

Hi Aaron, thanks so much for being here.

- Hey, thank you.

Happy to be here.

- I know you're a board member of Fish for Garbage, but how long has that organization been around?

- So it started in 2015.

- Oh okay.

- And since then we have cleaned up over 65,000 pounds of garbage from over 200 miles of river banks and lakes.

- Wow.

Yeah, you've done a lot.

I know your first cleanup is the Lower Provo River.

- It is.

- And that's coming up the 29th?

- Uh-huh, the 29th of this month.

And it will be at Mt.

Timpanogos Park.

And hopefully the snow will be cleared away in time for us to really make an impact on it, but it's one that we really look forward to every year and find a lot of garbage and attracts a lot of volunteers and families.

- I imagine it's kind of a fun thing for people to come do.

- Absolutely.

It's a lot of fun for everybody, especially for families and kids and friends.

There's always great prizes at the end and there's always lunch provided at each of the cleanups and it's always a good time.

- Great, and I bet you find a lot of interesting things in those rivers.

- There is definitely a lot of interesting things from mattresses to construction equipment to just about anything you can imagine.

It's coming outta the river.

- In a river, and I know then you've got three more cleanups planned, too, so you've got a lot going on in the rivers in Utah.

- Yeah, this year we have the Provo cleanup and then one at Strawberry Reservoir as well as the Green River and the Weber River, as well as two out-of-state this summer.

- [Mary] All Right.

- We're really looking forward to.

- Great, well have fun with those and thanks for coming on.

- Awesome, thank you.

- And if you'd like to know more about those cleanups it's the Fish for Garbage.

The first one is April 29th from nine to noon.

Just meet at the Timpanogos Park in the Provo Canyon.

And to find out more, go to fishforgarbage.org.

That's fishforgarbage.org.

I'm Mary Dickson.

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