Statewide Roadside Cleanup Planned, Volunteers Needed
Harrisburg – PennDOT is seeking volunteers for this year’s Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania, which begins March 1 and runs through May 31.
“Cleanup events like this have been a great success in improving the quality of life for Pennsylvanians by creating cleaner roadsides and communities,” said Secretary Barry Schoch. “Many dedicated residents return year after year to show their support, and I encourage more Pennsylvanians to show pride in our state through these great opportunities.”
Interested volunteers can find a listing of cleanup events, resources for organizing a cleanup group and other information at www.gacofpa.org.
Many of PennDOT’s 7,100 Adopt-A-Highway groups, who collect trash year-round, also join in this event. Visit www.dot.state.pa.us and click on “PennDOT near you” for the phone number of the nearest PennDOT District Office to sign up for Adopt-A-Highway.
Last year, more than 159,000 volunteers collected 7 million pounds of trash from 13,140 miles of roads, trails and shorelines during the Great American Cleanup of Pennsylvania. Additionally, PennDOT’s Adopt-A-Highway volunteers picked up more than 3.5 million pounds of trash along more than 10,000 miles of roadway during the cleanup event last year.
PennDOT provides gloves, trash bags and safety vests to cleanup volunteers.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Statewide Roadside Cleanup Planned, Volunteers Needed
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10 comments:
I think the gas companies should volunteer their employees services in this effort. Since they have been in the area I have noticed a large increase in the roadside trash.
Simple everyone on welfare should be out there picking up trash with a jacket on saying they r on welfare. Let them earn their $ I'll bet it would take care of a lot of our countrys problems
Make the PennDOT workers do it. Isn't that what we pay them for?
No thanks, I think the people I am supporting are quite capable of getting out there and earning the money they collecting every month.
I think the WELFARE RATS should be made to give something back to there community first.THEN MAYBE I WOULD JOIN IN
can't have those on welfare out there picking up liter. someone might hit and kill them and we can't have that happening.
7:53 don't the taxpayers write YOUR paycheck?
Yeah keep spewing the welfare rhetoric... Write your elected Governor "upper deck" Tommy and complain to him. He`s the guy who just gave them a raise.
I would rather have PennDot keeping the roads clear, then picking up trash..
Penndot workers have more than enough time to pick up trash. I work for penndot, and can testify that I barely do 10 hours worth of work per week.I have made the suggestion to go out and do this, but cannot get my lazy Co workers to get any ambition. They would rather sit inside and read or play cards. If 80 percent of our employees weren't lazy we could save the state millions by doing other projects, that they normally pay contractors to do.
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