Cost of Roadside Litter in Missouri
Missouri Department of Conservation and Missouri Department of Transportation sponsor the No MoRE Trash! annually as part of their ongoing statewide anti-litter campaign. This statewide event focusses on the roadside, parks, neighborhoods, rivers, streams, trails and other places.
Trash Bashing Facts
- $6 Million MoDot spends annually top remove litter from more than 385,000 acres of roadsides along 34,000 state highway miles.
- $1 Million the Missouri Department of Conservation spends to clean the states forest, conservation and river areas.
- $1 Million in volunteer efforts to pick up litter along Missouri highways annually
- 65 Incarcerated crews spend over 133,000 hours per year removing litter.
- $16.7 Million per year saved by using incarcerated crews.
The Past
- 2010: $3 Million per year to clean up illegal dumping in Kansas City in one site
- 2012: 689 tons of litter from waterways and dedicated over $3 million dollars’ worth of volunteer time to litter removal statewide. Annual volunteer efforts to pick up trash on Missouri highways are valued at $1.5 million.
- 2014: 688 Tons of litter removed and $3.4 Million in volunteer time
- 2015: 60,000 bags of litter and several truckloads of debris were picked up during the Trash Bash.
- 2017: $6.8 Million was the cost of litter clean up
Illegal Dumping Costs
- $500,000 camera cost to to track illegal dumpers in Kansas City.
- $2 Million Cost of illegal dumping in Kansas City
- 16 million tires have been cleaned up in Missouri since the department began the scrap tire cleanup program.
Resources:
Dumping videos are available online at http://www.dnr.mo.gov/env/swmp/dumping-videos.htm. Missouri Stream Team: 800-572-2322 or www.mostreamteam.org
Source: http://www.greenecoservices.com/cost-of-roadside-litter-in-missouri/
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