Missouri River Relief hits the skies looking for trash?

On March 11, a couple River Reliefers hit the skies with the Ecoflight crew. Looking for trash.

The great blue sky may seem like a strange place to look for trash, but maybe you haven't seen the massive trash deposits that the Missouri River leaves strewn across its floodplain when it floods.

From the air, you can see plumes of driftwood mixed with plastic barrels & bottles, refrigerators, toys and tires splayed across the floodplain. This is the first step in our Big Muddy Clean Sweep this fall. Figure out where the massive trash piles are, then figure out how to target them from a barge moving down from Kansas City to St. Louis.

Find out more about Missouri River Relief's "Aerial MegaScout" here

And check out the Kansas City NBC press clip here

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Check out the KOMU story about the flight.