Horner is a manager for the Alice Ferguson Foundation’s Potomac River Watershed Cleanup, which has its annual cleanup day scheduled for April 10. At the event last year, volunteers pulled 270 tons of garbage out of the river, including 41,122 plastic bags and 2,095 tires.

Do you see the river improving?
I feel like trash is still a major problem on the Potomac. Every year it does tend to get a little bit better in part because of cleanup, in part because of legislation that gets passed, I’m speaking specifically of the bag fee in D.C. We at the AFF believe we can be trash free on the Potomac by 2013.

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