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05.05.2009 12:04 pm

A faster way to pick up litter

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

 

It used to be, prisoners, highway workers and volunteers got stuck picking up the soda cans and fast food wrappers along highways. This spring the Missouri Department of Transportation has begun using a litter-picking machine to pluck up trash.

The Barber Litter Picker attaches to a tractor and uses a rake system to…

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01.22.2009 6:23 pm

Neo-Nazi group adopts a highway

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

A neo-Nazi group is participating in Missouri’s “Adopt-A-Highway” trash pickup program, taking advantage of a free speech court fight that the Ku Klux Klan won four years ago.

The Springfield unit of the National Socialist Movement has committed to picking up litter along a half-mile stretch…

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