> > Wouldn't be much point. Most orgs that adopt a highway just send in money to the county to have them clean it up. you'd just be making the job harder for the prison crew that worked on that stretch.
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> I beg to differ! I suppose rich areas of the country might do this, but when I was the Key Club President in high school, I was out there picking up trash on the highway for hours. They break it off into two-mile sections, but it's actually four miles of surface when you count both sides of the road. After a couple of hours, your hands get very tired of those claw things used to pick up the trash, and it's hot, and your sunscreen has stopped working (if you have my white skin, that is), and your head is sweaty because of the stupid hard hat that you must legally wear. When you come across an unwound 90-minute tape, you feel like strangling all owners of tape decks. Fifty bags of trash later, you're finally done--for another few months, that is.
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> And that, folks, is only the beginning.
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> Ell"SOMEONE has to pick up that trash"myruh

I was in key club too. Key Club/CircleK/Kiwanis are totally different from most of the organizations that adopt highways - - As community service organizations, they naturally will be cleaning it up themselves. Most of the highway miles are adopted by businesses who want their names on the sign. Those miles are cleaned up by the county, and paid for by the business.