Hi! We are Mark and Margot Nardone. We are the founders of trash fishing. What is trash fishing, you ask? It’s like regular fishing, but we fish for trash. It’s a way to clean our waterways and have fun doing it. Every weekend, from April through October, you’ll find us on the Detroit River removing as much trash as we can from the Detroit River. We are passionate about getting the trash out before it flows through to the Ocean.
We were lucky enough to be written up in our local magazine where they labeled us “Planet Protectors.” We love that term and we hope you’ll join us in protecting our beautiful planet.
We love to spread the word on the importance of keeping trash out of the water and inspiring others to join our mission. We do this through social media content: videos, photos and more to show people how much fun we are having and, hopefully, how much good we are doing. We also get a big boost from national and local media stories about our work. We’ve even been featured in national TV shows.
We keep it fun by creating contests and giving out prizes based on criteria like: who removes the most trash and who finds the weirdest trash. It keeps people coming back every week.
Here’s some of our other regular volunteers. They work with us every week to remove hundreds of pounds of trash from the Detroit River, and help us prevent all that pollution from making it to the ocean.
