Volunteers clean up trash from banks of Missouri River

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On Thursday, morning volunteers with Missouri River Aid walked and boated alongside the Missouri River financial institution, choosing up trash.

They stuffed a 20-foot dumpster with what they collected, and their work’s simply starting.

Jeff “Boot” Barrow has been volunteering with them for years.

“The river’s been flowing right here for hundreds of years and it’ll hold flowing,” Barrow mentioned. “And so for the folks which can be coming after us, I positively need to depart it higher than we now have it proper now.”

Kevin Bosie, Missouri River Aid’s operations director, helps lead the cleanup course of that may proceed for a number of extra days.

“Our hope is that our packages instill a way of accountability and take care of the river as a result of it actually does belong to all of us,” Bosie mentioned. “Hopped in 5 boats and coated about six miles a river, and we stuffed a 20-yard dumpster this morning. I believe we obtained perhaps 15 tires as properly, a mattress a fridge, you title it.”

It is solely the start. The group with exit scouting for extra trash Friday morning forward of an enormous 200-person cleanup this weekend.

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