Couches, hot tubs and tons of trash clog the Colorado River. A volunteer armada fishes it all out

Volunteers in kayaks on a river loaded with trash found in the Colorado River.
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Volunteer kayakers, canoers and other rafters float down the Colorado River near Grand Junction, Colo., each year to clean out hundreds of pounds of garbage during the Grand Valley River Cleanup.

Bags and piles of trash line a river bank under fluffy clouds.
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