Members of the Missouri River Relief organization eat breakfast on the bank of the Missouri River during the early morning hours, on Saturday, Sept. 11, in St. Charles , Mo. The group organizes river cleanup operations all over Missouri, sometimes recruiting hundreds of volunteers to pull trash from the river banks. On Sept. 11, the organization pulled about 10 tons of waste from a 10-mile section of the river. Volunteering for a river cleanup means more than just picking up trash. Volunteers receive a crash course in river information and safety from River Relief coordinators. River cleanup volunteers gather trash under the shadow of an Interstate-70 bridge in St. Charles, Mo. According to River Relief coordinator Steve Schnarr, just getting out onto the river, an experience many volunteers have never had, is just as important as cleaning up trash. Volunteers transfer garbage-filled bags to the shore, where they will be sorted for recyclables. One of the most common pieces of trash found on the banks of the Missouri River is rubber tires. A River Relief coordinator retrieves recyclables from some of the roughly 10-tons of garbage removed from the river on Sept 11, 2010.