No MOre Trash Bash Starts Next Month

The Missouri Department of Transportation is once again asking the public to help clean up the state’s roadsides during the annual No MOre Trash! Bash program in April.

The No MOre Trash! Bash is Missouri’s statewide litter-prevention campaign, working to clean up Missouri and make it a litter-free state through education, prevention and cleanup programs.

Roadside litter cleanup costs the Missouri Department of Transportation more than $6 million each year, with another $1.5 million worth of labor from Adopt-A-Highway volunteers, to remove litter from more than 385,000 acres of roadsides along 34,000 state highway miles.

As part of the program Mo-Dot also sponsors a contest for school children from kindergarten through 8th grade join the fight against litter by decorating and displaying a large trash can with the “No MOre Trash!” logo and a litter prevention message using a variety of creative mediums. Entries for this years contest are due by Friday.

To learn more visit modot.org/no-more-trash.