No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)

No MOre Trash! Bash

No MOre Trash! Bash is the name of the annual effort undertaken by the Missouri Departments of Transportation and Conservation to collect roadside litter. Last year 12,000 volunteers hauled in more than 128,000 bags of trash and tons of other debris. MoDOT area engineer Tom Blair wishes that number could be drastically reduced, but says it's up to the people of Missouri. "I am begging you, I am pleading with you...stop putting that trash on our roadsides and in our parks and in our streams," Blair said before heading out to pick up more trash. "STOP IT!" Conservation officials brought along "Peanut" the turtle as their mascot, so named because she was trapped in a plastic six-pack ring for an estimated eight years, and her shell grew around it and became deformed. She was rescued in 1993 and despite having a collapsed lung, she has lived a full life. (KMOX/Brett Blume)