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Campaigners are calling for a national litter strategy after most spots they surveyed in England over the last decade were blighted by the issue. Teams from the green group Keep Britain Tidy ...
Sign posted by the U.S. Forest Service in the Los Padres National Forest. California posts the maximum fine on its roadside signs. Litter in the United States is an environmental issue and littering is often a criminal offense, punishable with a fine as set out by statutes in many places.
Keep America Beautiful cleanup volunteers in 2021. Keep America Beautiful is a nonprofit organization founded in 1953. It is the largest community improvement organization in the United States, with more than 700 state and community-based affiliate organizations and more than 1,000 partner organizations.
An adopt-a-Highway sign in Colorado. The Adopt-a-Highway program, and the very similar Sponsor-a-Highway, are promotional campaigns undertaken by U.S. states, provinces and territories of Canada, and some national governments outside North America to encourage volunteers to keep a section of a highway free from litter.
According to Ecology’s litter study in 2022, there are about 73,580 pieces of litter (1,579 pounds) per mile every year on interstate highways. That same year crews collected over 5.4 million ...
Oct. 21—On Wednesday, Caltrans announced a new Clean California pilot program that will give Adopt-a-Highway volunteers up to $250 for picking up highway litter. As part of Gov. Gavin Newsom's ...
ODOT currently spends $10 million per year collecting trash along state and U.S. routes outside municipalities and all interstates except turnpike
The campaign is credited with reducing litter on Texas highways roughly 72% between 1987 and 1990. [1] The campaign's target market was 18- to 35-year-old males, which was statistically shown to be the most likely to litter. While the slogan was not originally intended to become a statewide cultural phenomenon, it eventually did become one.