One Sunday afternoon, I was watching Dave from our balcony as he paddled back to our condo, and his kayak was TOTALLY loaded down with all kinds of trash. Huge Styrofoam blocks were bungeed down and bags were filled with bottles and cans. My initial thought was, “he is going to need a bigger boat, or a lot more help!” So we started organizing informal group cleanups with friends on waterways and beaches. Each time we would do a cleanup, people would come up to us and ask one of two things. ‘When is the next cleanup’… and ‘Do you know my friend ____ who does cleanups?’ There were so many people who were interested in joining us on cleanups AND there were already pockets of people doing this kind of thing, but no one was connected and there was no centralized place for everyone to find upcoming events.