Renew Our Rivers has cleaned up 16 million pounds of trash since 2000

Renew Our Rivers was started by the Alabama Power Company in 2000. The national, award-winning campaign has since grown into community cleanups on rivers, lakes and creeks across four Southeastern states. Since its start, thousands of volunteers have removed more than 16 million pounds of trash and debris from waterways. In 2023 more than 2,900 volunteers removed 123 tons of garbage from rivers and lakes across the state of Alabama. (Jodie McGirt/Lake Martin Resource Association) Mike Clelland is the ROR coordinator in Alabama Power’s Environmental Affairs group. Clelland worked alongside the