MnDOT provides all participants with garbage bags and safety vests, and collects the bags of trash from each cleanup site. In 2022, more than 1,860 volunteer groups spent over 88,000 hours cleaning up 38,500 bags of trash from highway ditches around the state.Minnesota’s Adopt a Highway...
Having volunteers focus on trash pickup allows MnDOT to focus its time on safety projects, like filling potholes. And even if you don't adopt a highway, you can still help out by simply not littering. MnDOT isn't the only agency with this program. Several Minnesota coun...