Each year, dam owners and hydroelectric power producers capture and remove tons of man-made debris, trash, and garbage from our lakes and rivers.  This reduces the load on what is entering our oceans where there is currently a large focus on cleaning the oceans of the floating trash and plastic.  The most notable of these efforts is that of the OceanCleanup® which is targeting the 5 large swirling trash fields in the ocean.  Inland, however, is challenging and this is where dam owners have a tremendous opportunity to tout their contribution in preventing plastics and other trash from reaching the ocean where it will break down into microplastics to disrupt the global food chain in incomprehensible ways.