Volunteers bag 1.8 tons of litter on National CleanUp Day

Those of us involved with Adopt a Highway volunteer operations got to experience firsthand the power of volunteers coming together for ADOT’s 8th Annual National CleanUp Day on Saturday, Sept. 20. 

A hundred dedicated volunteers bagged more than 3,600 pounds of trash in a single day. That’s 1.8 tons of litter removed from roadways across Arizona.  

Check out the happy moments of the day in our Flickr album, including a lucky find by a Scouting America Troop 10 leader and a misplaced plush toy that had seen better days. 

“I feel like it is a good contribution to keep the earth clean, and for people who visit Arizona to have a good experience here,” Jett Courtright said, who is 14 and working toward his Eagle Scout badge. Jett and 13 fellow scouts worked in pairs along an adopted stretch of State Route 88 to fill seven bags and gather one large pile of construction waste for ADOT maintenance crews.

Thank you to volunteers whose combined efforts corralled 270 bags-worth of litter for proper disposal. We celebrate you and your hometowns:

Avondale
Bouse
Cottonwood
Gilbert
Glendale
Globe
Goodyear
Green Valley
Greenehaven
Kingman
Payson
Phoenix
Prescott
Sahuarita
San Tan
Scottsdale
Surprise
Tucson

If you’d like to form your own powerful league of volunteers, we’ve got plenty of adoptable miles to choose from. Please visit azdot.gov/adoptahighway.