( CNN ) Mike Rowe is coming to a river near you . `` Sometimes , you hear about a person who makes you feel good about humanity , but bad about yourself , '' Rowe says . On Thursday 's episode of `` Somebody 's Got ta Do It , '' Rowe meets up with Chad Pregracke , the founder of Living Lands & Waters , who does just that . Pregracke wants to clean up the nation 's rivers one piece of detritus at a time . His quota ? Always `` more . '' Read Mike Rowe 's Facebook post on how to break our litter habit . Since he founded the nonprofit in 1998 at the ripe age of 23 , Pregracke and more than 87,000 volunteers have collected 8.4 million pounds of trash from U.S. waterways . Those efforts helped him earn the 2013 CNN Hero of the Year Award , along with numerous other honors . `` Wherever you are , no matter if there 's a stream , a creek , a lake , whatever , that needs to be cleaned up , you can do it . Just organize it and do it , '' he told CNN 's Anderson Cooper after his win . Pregracke also gives Rowe a tour of the 150-foot , solar-powered barge that the Living Lands & Waters staff calls home during lengthy cleanups . The part-home , part-office , part-dumpster has seven bedrooms , two bathrooms , a classroom and a kitchen -- and just happens to be made from a recycled strip club . According to the organization 's latest annual report , Pregracke has made it his mission in 2015 to remove 500,000 more pounds of trash . If you 'd like to help achieve this goal , visit his website to learn how to help : LivingLandsAndWaters.org/Get-Involved/ .
Chad Pregracke was the 2015 CNN Hero of the Year . Mike Rowe visited Pregracke for an episode of `` Somebody 's Got ta Do It ''