MARQUETTE, MI— Drivers should be on the lookout beginning Saturday as Adopt-A-Highway volunteers pick up litter across the state.
Participants in the Michigan Department of Transportation program will clean highway roadsides from July 12 to 20 during the second of three scheduled pickups this year.
The Adopt-A-Highway program began in Michigan in 1990. Today, around 2,600 groups have adopted more than 6,000 miles of state highway. Last year, volunteers collected more than 36,000 bags of trash.
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.
