Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful hits major milestones in 2023

The Knoxville-based Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful has celebrated several new milestones in 2018, including removing 218,729 pounds of trash from the Tennessee River. The first affiliate of Keep America Beautiful to focus solely on a river, the organization reached several milestones last year include the most volunteers in one year at 994, most volunteers at a single event at 172, most trash removed from a single site at 31,115 pounds, a nonprofit milestone of 600,000 pounds of trash removed from the river, and a lifetime milestone of plastic recycled from more than 500,000 cigarette butts.