Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Adopt-a-Highway Fall Sweep Week

{Frankfort, Kentucky}...The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet says next week is Adopt-a-Highway Fall Sweep Week, and volunteers from the more than 800 groups that participate in the program will be out cleaning up their stretches of roadway. The cabinet, which established the program in 1988, spends about $5 million and 200,000 workers hours annually to remove 96,000 bags of litter from the state's roadsides. The agency says volunteers clean some 5,100 miles of roadside every year.