Hauling the unbelievable amount of junk out of rivers

Mitchum deodorant held a contest to find the “hardest-working _______ in America.” The winner, as featured on the Good News Network site, is Chad Pregracke.

According to the story, he’s hauled over 6 million pounds of trash from rivers over the past 12 years — including an astonishing 775 refrigerators. I don’t know if he cleaned up the site of an abandoned fridge factory at one time, but that’s an average of more than 60 fridges a year — a fridge every week, and sometimes two! That’s too many fridges in the river.

Here’s his nomination video — click pause at the very last second to read the fine print. It’s worth it.

You can see more nominees at the contest website.