LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) – The Michigan Department of Transportation says motorists should be on the lookout beginning Saturday as Adopt-A-Highway volunteers fan out across the state picking up litter.
Participants in the MDOT program will clean highway roadsides from July 13-21 during the second of three scheduled pickups this year.
The popular Adopt-A-Highway program began in Michigan in 1990 and has grown to involve more than 2,900 groups cleaning more than 6,000 miles of highway. Every year, volunteers regularly collect more than 60,000 bags of trash.
Volunteers include members of civic groups, businesses and families. Adopt-A-Highway signs bearing group names are posted along the stretches of adopted highway.
When working in a highway right of way, Adopt-A-Highway volunteers wear high-visibility, yellow-green safety vests required by federal regulations. MDOT provides free vests and trash bags, and arranges to haul away the trash.
Sections of highway are available for this public service project, and interested groups can get more information on joining the program at www.Michigan.gov/AdoptAHighway
The year’s final Adopt-A-Highway pickup is scheduled for the fall, from September 21-29.
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