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Hanover Beautiful), and one inland river KTNRB recruited
(Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful). partners to oversee
KTNRB reported success with the the Seabins, then used
product after installing two Seabin the grant money to
devices in East Tennessee at Volunteer purchase the Seabins
Landing Marina and Louisville Landing and have them delivered
Marina. In 2021, KAB announced a to each site. KTNRB
nationwide grant for Seabin devices staff will compile the
to their local KAB affiliates. KTNRB litter data reported by
received six Seabins in the grant and each site manager. Gibi
then collaborated with Keep the Shoals said the goal is to use
Beautiful in Florence, Ala. which also the data to hopefully
received two Seabins through the same identify litter trends
grant. and sources so that new
“The leadership and innovation of steps can be taken to
the Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful stop litter flow into our
and Keep the Shoals Beautiful is truly waterways.
inspirational and a model for the over 700 “We at Keep the Electric litter skimmers will annually remove 54,000 lbs. of litter in the
Keep America Beautiful Affiliates across Tennessee River Tennessee River.
the nation,” said Randy Hartmann, Senior Beautiful are very serious when we say most beautiful and biodiverse river in the
Director of Keep America Beautiful. that we’re aiming to work ourselves out nation.”
“With over 26 billion pieces of litter found of work, and coming at the litter from To learn more, visit www.
along-side our nation’s waterways, it is different angles such as litter prevention KeepTNRiverBeautiful.org/seabin.
critical to clean up this litter. The beauty and education, physical litter cleanup, Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful is
of the Seabin program is that it captures and now electric-powered filtration of a 501c3 nonprofit and is the first Keep
the ‘small litter’ which comprises almost our waterways will help us achieve that America Beautiful affiliate in the nation
nine out of ten littered items counted in end game,” said Gibi. “When you look to focus solely on a river. Its mission is to
the 2020 KAB Litter Study.” at all of the partners who came together rally communities along the Tennessee
Project Partners Oversee the Seabins to make our Seabin network possible, River and its tributaries to preserve,
it’s obvious that we’re all determined to
improve and protect the river for
In rolling out their Seabin project,
protect our precious Tennessee River, the generations to come.
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