the man you're looking at
went for a morning run and came back
with 7 000 pounds of trash
that he collected from a creek
who is this guy why does he exercise
like this and why is there a christmas
tree
floating down a creek
in kentucky usa i found
curtis hi i'm curtis aka
creek runner 242 and i've pulled over 7
000 pounds of trash out of the creek so
far one day on his morning run
along the creek he saw something
unbelievable
a mattress was flowing down the water
he couldn't believe his eyes so he came
back the next day
and saw the same thing again and again
and again
and it wasn't just mattresses but also
beds carpets and even gates
floating on top of a creek heading
towards the river it really baffles me
how some people they just
they just don't care and they will
literally i've seen them throw
stuff right out their window the truth
is
that people do not know where to dispose
big items
and they end up throwing them in the
creek because it's easy
but what they don't realize is that this
trash
will float down the creek into the river
and eventually
into the ocean poisoning the planet
that there was so much trash piling up
years and years and years of trash
building up over time and these creeks
are basically the source that runs into
rivers and eventually into oceans
eventually a lot of this trash that's in
the creek will end up
probably an island of trash somewhere
out in the ocean
so curtis decided if no one will pick
this trash up
he will he's trapped on his helmet his
running shoes his knee pads took a trash
bag
and started picking out trash while
doing
his morning run what i generally do is
i pick all the trash that i can and then
i sort of
jog the bags back in so that's kind of
where the running part comes into play
and so he ran in and ran and ran
every single week two three times a week
without fail and picks up a total of
seven thousand pounds of trash from
crazy things like carpets
mattresses bottles boxes pipes
and even a christmas tree yes someone
threw a christmas tree
in a river and i actually found it on
christmas day
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the work wasn't always so easy it's hard
to run
on rocks and pick up trash and stop and
continue
and there were times when curtis would
injure himself
seriously i basically stepped on a piece
of sharp glass
that stabbed through my shoe into my
foot
and it caused my foot to swell up and i
couldn't go into the creek for
at least a week but he never stopped he
even went
one step further what he took out of the
streams
he didn't just throw in the landfills
instead
he made it into art in his hand
anything can be turned into something
beautiful
a door a piece of wood or even a
satellite take
things like scrap metal and trash that
otherwise would be
either thrown away or discarded and
actually
make it into art so it sort of fuses
these two things together my love for
picking trash
with my love for art now he doesn't run
alone anymore
he's creating a group of runners so that
together
they can get more and more trash out of
the water
today is pretty exciting day it is
our first group cleanup
this is everything we've pulled the
entire push mower
and uh there's a muffler a couple of
tires we have to stop
trash at its source a polluted
mindset leads to a polluted creek
that can go to pollute the river pollute
the ocean pollute the animals and
pollute
the entire planet my number one message
for anybody who is dumping trash
please stop you're not only hurting
other people and wildlife but ultimately
you are hurting yourself
in the long run that is why people like
curtis
who stop trash at the source are the
reason
humanity is beautiful
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