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Annual Adopt-A Highway Spring Cleanup Aims To Beat Last Year’s Numbers

Nearly 300 groups, with more than 2,600 participants, are registered to comb Mountain State main and back roads, picking up tons of trash.

Saturday’s statewide Adopt-A Highway spring cleaning should make our country roads much less cluttered. Nearly 300 groups, with more than 2,600 participants, are registered to comb Mountain State main and back roads, picking up tons of trash.

The annual spring cleanup is hosted by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the Division of Highways. 

Terry Fletcher, the chief communications officer for the DEP, said volunteers will be provided with all necessary protective gear and pick up materials. 

Fletcher said DEP is hoping to recruit more Adopt-A-Highway groups and members with the statewide event.

“We have a Youth Environmental Program that does a really great job with helping to promote this as well,” Fletcher said. “They’re talking to school groups and students across the state about ways they can join in and pitch in to help clean up their communities.”

Fletcher said tossed out trash is not just an eyesore – it’s an environmental hazard and a physical danger. 

”This stuff that you throw out of your car, it’s gonna find its way into a stream,” he said. “It’s gonna find its way into people’s yards and into our forests, stuff that can cause all kinds of environmental issues and problems.”

Fletcher said a spring cleanup goal is to surpass the 68,000 pounds of trash removed from more than 800 miles of roadway last year.

Click here for information on how to get involved.

Volunteers Needed to Clean Up West Virginia Highways

The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is taking registrations from volunteers who want to help clean up the state’s highways.

The Adopt-A-Highway Statewide Spring Cleanup is scheduled for April 29. Volunteers have until April 21 to register, and they must be at least 12 years old to participate.

The program provides bags, gloves and vests and takes care of disposing of trash that’s collected.

Individuals and groups can sign up to help on almost any state-maintained road.

To register, call (800) 322-5530 or email dep.aah@wv.gov. To leave a voicemail, give name, phone number, group name, date of cleanup, number of participants and the county where the road is located.

Adopt-A-Highway Fall Cleanup is September 24th

Volunteers can sign up for next month’s litter cleanup along West Virginia highways.

The Adopt-A-Highway program is a partnership between the state Department of Environmental Protection and Division of Highways.

More than 4,800 volunteers cleared more than 1,500 miles of roads during the spring cleanup.

The fall cleanup is set for Sept. 24. Volunteers must be at least age 12 to participate.

To sign up, call (800) 322-5530 or email dep.aah@wv.gov.

Adopt-A-Highway Spring Cleanup is April 30 in West Virginia

Volunteers will take to the highways of West Virginia later this month for spring litter cleanup with the Adopt-A-Highway program.

The program is a partnership between the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection and the West Virginia Department of Transportation’s Division of Highways.

Last year, more than 10,000 volunteers from more than 760 organizations participated in the event. They spent more than 80,000 hours collectively picking up approximately 17,000 bags of trash.

Registration is still open for organizations to take part in the April 30 spring cleanup.

To sign up, visit http://www.dep.wv.gov/dlr/reap/aah/pages/default.aspx , call (800) 322-5530 or email dep.aah@wv.gov.

 

Registration Deadline Coming up for Highway Cleanup

A deadline looms for volunteers to register for West Virginia’s annual spring highway cleanup.

The Department of Environmental Protection will accept registrations through Friday. The Adopt-A-Highway Spring Statewide Cleanup will be held April 25.

The DEP says individuals, families, churches, businesses, schools, civic organizations, government agencies and communities can participate in the cleanup. Trash can be picked up on most state-maintained roads, back roads or main routes. But volunteers cannot adopt private roads or interstates.

Garbage bags, work gloves and safety vests will be provided to volunteers.

During the spring 2014 cleanup, the DEP says more than 4,800 volunteers cleaned more than 1,500 miles of roadways.

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