We certainly ended our cleanup season on a high note thanks to spectacular fall weather, the beautiful Stump Island Park and the best volunteers any organization could ask for. Throughout the weekend we removed 2.3 TONS of trash from 10 miles of river with 123 volunteers!
Join us for a Missouri River cleanup at the Weldon Spring Conservation Area boat launch on Saturday, September 16th. We'll see you on the river!
207 volunteers came out for a day of stewardship to help us remove 318 heavy bags of trash, 15 tires, and a staggering 61 large chunks of Styrofoam. In total, we removed over 6 TONS of trash from the river. Thank you all so much for joining us to clean up the Big Muddy!
We had a successful week on the river in Kansas City! In spite of the weather warnings, we had a great turnout Saturday morning for our large-scale cleanup out of Riverfront Park with 189 volunteers! We also hosted a cleanup out of LaBenite Park the Thursday before with our Title Sponsors, Evergy Green Team, where 33 of their employees joined our crew for a day of stewardship. In all, we removed 8.36 tons of trash from 18.2 miles of river with 231 volunteers! Thank you so much to all our volunteers, sponsors and partners who made these cleanups possible.
With a beautiful view of Missouri's capitol building, 229 volunteers helped us remove 109 bags of trash, 33 tires and a huge load of scrap metal from the banks of the Missouri River at Wilson's Serenity Point at Noren Access in Jefferson City.
After 2 education programs, a trash scout, and camping through 4 storms, we were very heartbroken to cancel the cleanup and festival. We would like to thank our sponsors, partners, crew, and friends from the Washington Area River Council for the hard work and support to make these large-scale events happen. We greatly appreciate all […]
180 amazing volunteers joined us bright and early Saturday, removing almost 5 tons of trash out of a 10-mile reach of the Missouri and parts of the Mississippi River! Thank you to all of those who drove the extended drive through the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area to aid in our cleanup efforts.
Working with members of the river communities that we visited, a total of 11 cleanups were organized throughout the project. 343 volunteers managed to pull out 847 bags of trash, along with 382 tires of various sizes! The tonnage for the whole Big Muddy Clean Sweep project ended up totaling 23.6 TONS of trash!
Our hearts and dumpsters are full after such an amazing week in Sugar Creek, MO at LaBenite Park. With the support of the entire community and the help of over 200 volunteers, we were able to make a huge impact on such a great stretch of river downstream of Kansas City. Unfortunately, this stretch of river is no stranger to mounds of trash and single use plastic washing down from the streams draining the metropolitan area just upstream, but with the help of 186 volunteers we were able to remove a staggering 247 large bags of trash from 10 miles of river, totaling an estimated 5.1 tons of trash.
What a huge success in Kansas City. This was our first time back to the area since 2018, and we were itching to get back to our large-scale cleanups and see our Kansas City friends. The heat—and some rain—couldn’t stop our crew and volunteers from coming out to clean up the Big Muddy with us. We had a total of 166 volunteers came out to clean up along nearly 10 miles of river along Kansas City out of Riverfront Park. In just one day, we picked up and removed 6 tons of trash, including over 2 tons of tires that were dumped under the I-435 bridge. Our hardcore volunteer crew members arrived Wednesday to help set up camp, host a Sunset Cruise with sponsors on Thursday, scout the river on Friday, and then execute our cleanup on Saturday. Thank you so much!
