Adopt-A-Highway volunteers will take to the roadsides again starting Saturday through Sept. 28 for the third and final scheduled litter collection of 2025.

Adopt-A-Highway is a Michigan Department of Transportation program designed to help keep the state’s highway roadsides clean and attractive. Participants adopt both sides of a section of state highway roadside to tend for at least a two-year period. A minimum 2-mile stretch of roadway is recommended.

For the safety of all, motorists should watch for these volunteers, who wear high-visibility, yellow-green vests required by federal regulations while working in a highway right of way. The MDOT provides the vests and trash bags for free, and arranges to haul away the trash afterwards.

The popular program began in Michigan in 1990 and ha

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