Dedicated Arizona Volunteers Clear 2.6 Tons of Highway Trash in Statewide Cleanup Effort

Volunteers with the Arizona Department of Transportation’s Adopt a Highway program cleared more than 2.6 tons of trash and litter from state highways on National CleanUp Day. On Saturday, Sept. 19, more than 224 volunteers from 33 volunteer groups around the state collected 382 bags of trash from Arizona highways. This tops the 1.8 tons of trash removed during last year’s National CleanUp Day event. Members of a volunteer group in Wickenburg spent the morning cleaning their adopted mile on US 60