Missouri River Relief

The last stop of our Big Muddy Clean Sweep was our biggest clean-up yet at the confluence of North America's two longest rivers: the Missouri & Mississippi. We have deep roots in the area, with many great partners helping get the word out. That makes for a super-effective clean-up. Over 300 volunteers removed an estimated 14 tons of trash from the Confluence.

Missouri River Relief returned to the state capital to celebrate 10 Years as a river clean-up machine!  This river clean-up truly kicked off the Big Muddy Clean Sweep, our flagship project to clean the Missouri River via a trash barge across the state of Missouri.

Our "River Clean-up" barge finally arrived in the state capital after a few delays in getting it up the river.  The weather couldn't have been better, and we truly had one of the best events of the year in Jeff City!

It's our biggest tradition of the year, the Kansas City area clean-up!  Even more exciting, the event also kicked off our 10th anniversary flagship project this Fall, The Big Muddy Clean Sweep, a cross-state clean-up from Kansas City to St. Louis.

The tri-state Siouxland area loves their river, and a group of local organizers has been working with us for to develop their own annual Missouri River clean-up event.

This year 97 volunteers joined us to clean up the river. On a four-mile stretch of river, they recovered 3.5 tons of trash!

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We hadn't made a trip to the Omaha/Council Bluffs area since 2007, so it was due for a big clean-up. When we got a call last fall from Bob Toy, an employee at Union Pacific Railroad, wondering if he could work on a clean-up with us, we decided we were coming back.

After months of planning (followed by weeks of the high river unravelling our planning), the game was on. 94 volunteers showed up that day and removed an amazing 5.83 tons of junk from the riverbanks.