Eleven-year-old Lewis Queensberry has been picking up garbage for as long as he can remember.

We actually started in the stroller. We used to walk around the neighborhood right after he was born, and we would pick up trash with a little Walmart bag, said his mother, Kathy.

Once he was old enough to walk, Lewis started collecting litter on his own. For his third birthday, he asked for his own grabber claw.

At first, we were just going around my neighborhood doing all that. Then we came to roads, beaches, all that, Lewis said.

Lewis is now a veteran volunteer with Keep Pasco Beautiful, a nonprofit that works to protect the environment through education, litter prevention, and community cleanups. The organization is the Pasco County affiliate of the national Keep America Beautiful program

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