Watch for volunteers cleaning roadsides

Motorists should be on the lookout beginning Saturday as Adopt-A-Highway volunteers fan out along state roadways picking up litter.

Participants in the Michigan Department of Transportation program will clean highway roadsides from July 15 through the 23rd during the second of three scheduled pickups this year.

The popular Adopt-A-Highway program began in Michigan in 1990 and has grown to involve more than 2,900 groups cleaning more than 6,000 miles of highway. Every year, volunteers regularly collect more than 60,000 bags of trash.

The year’s final Adopt-A-Highway pickup is scheduled for the fall, from Sept. 23 to Oct. 1.