LANSING, MI — Volunteers will fan out across the southern part of the state beginning Saturday to give the state highway roadsides their annual spring cleaning as Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) Adopt-A-Highway (AAH) groups pick up litter from April 11 to 19.
Volunteers pick up litter three times each year, according to a press release. Statewide, there will be a summer pickup from July 11 to 19 and a fall pickup from Sept. 19 to 27.
As of last year, about 2,600 groups have adopted more than 6,000 miles of state highway through the program, the state says. An estimated 19,000 participants collected almost 40,000 bags of trash from the roadsides during the three annual pickup periods in 2025.
The year’s first AAH pickup for the Upper Peninsula and the northern Lower Peninsula will occur later this spring.
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