Nine Mile River Cleanup Results
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Nine Mile River
4kg
of plastics and debris hauled out of the Nine Mile River in the last 2 months by hand and by paddle. We intercept debris upstream, before it fragments into microplastics or leaches chemicals into our lakes. Help keep our waters clean:
How much debris did we remove?
lifted out of the river
4 kg of debris kept out of the Great Lakes
Everything we collect on shore or on the water helps reduce downstream pollution in our Great Lakes. Debris is landfill, tires and metal, weighed in kilograms.
Debris
4 kg
6 recyclables diverted to the blue bin
Cans and bottles removed from our watershed, counted as items rather than weighed, and diverted to the blue bin program.
Bottles 4
Cans 2
Every dot = 1 item · one column per week
1 hours on the water
We cleaned 1 unique site along the Nine Mile River since August 23, 2026.
Volunteer hours
1
Who we met along the way
We're not just removing debris — we're protecting habitat.
Where we spotted them