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MISSOULA- The questions are stacking up over a car in Missoula. You might think it's loaded down with junk, but its driver thinks otherwise.

Robert Oscar Walker said the first item he decided to put atop his Dodge Colt Vista was a toilet.

"I thought it was a new one, but it wasn't. It was a used one," he said. "But it was heavy. I have it on the front part of my car."

The toilet is buried among a heap of what the rest of town considered trash: a lost shoe, scratched CD, an old metal helmet and much, much more.

"This is an ongoing work of art and it changes all the time, so, it's kinda fun," Walker said.

He recently added a colorful, knitted blanket.

"Look how pretty this is? You know, somebody took hours to make that, see?" he said. "So when you throw that in the trash, you're just goin', ‘Too bad about your artwork.'"

Walker finds what the rest of Missoula discarded, often times digging it out of the garbage himself.

"You could call me a hoarder if you saw my trailer and my yard," he said. "I got two storage units full."

He keeps everything he finds because he disagrees with sending it to the landfill.

"Waste isn't waste unless it's wasted and that's what we do," he said.

Every chance he gets, he's spreading his message, one object at a time.

"Sell it, trade it. Give it away, Reuse it whatever way we can."

And the possibility for more uses for "trash" is building on top of Walker's car.

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