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Clean California: Caltrans Offers $250 Stipends For Volunteers Clearing Highway Litter

Caltrans announced a new Clean California pilot program on Wednesday that is offering Adopt-a-Highway volunteers up to $250 for picking up highway litter. 

The Adopt-A-Highway program has been one of the longest-standing and successful government-public partnerships in the state and since its inception in 1989, more than 120,000 Californians have cleaned and enhanced over 15,000 shoulder-miles of roadside, according to Caltrans officials.

“Clean California is all about restoring pride in public spaces and making a difference in our communities, and that goes hand in hand with volunteering,” said Caltrans Director Toks Omishakin. “Through Caltrans’ Adopt-a-Highway program, volunteers can pitch in to clean and beautify our roadsides, and we’re proud to offer an incentive for even more people to help Clean California.”

The new pilot program is expected to augment the overall goals of the Clean California program by providing additional resources to maintain and beautify the state’s roadways, according to Caltrans officials. 

Clean California is a sweeping $1.1 billion, multiyear clean-up effort to remove trash, create thousands of jobs and engage communities to transform roadsides into places of public pride and since July, Caltrans has collected nearly 2,500 tons of trash and made more than 600 conditional job offers as part of the program.

Adopt-a-Highway volunteers help create cleaner and more beautiful roadsides by removing litter, planting trees and flowers, clearing graffiti, thinning overgrown vegetation and helping prevent litter and other pollutants from entering state waterways through stormwater drains, according to Caltrans officials. 

Whether completed by an individual or group, Caltrans is awarding stipends up to $250 per litter collection event for activities such as:

  • $250 for each adopted highway segment
  • $62.50 for each ramp, or up to $250 for all four ramps
  • Up to $250 for clean-up activities at other locations, such as along bike paths or at park-and-ride facilities

Volunteers are required to submit the date, location, amount of trash collected, number of volunteers, hours worked and pictures following eligible clean-up activities to receive a stipend. 

Adopt-A-Highway participants are limited to one payment per month, according to Caltrans officials.

As part of the pilot program, stipends are expected to be available to Adopt-a-Highway volunteers in Butte, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Imperial, Nevada, Placer, Sacramento, San Diego, Sierra, Sutter, Yolo and Yuba counties. Caltrans expects to expand the program statewide in the coming months. 

For more details, click here or call 866-ADOPTAHWY (886-236-7824).


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Clean California: Caltrans Offers $250 Stipends For Volunteers Clearing Highway Litter

6 comments

  1. How about using the fine money from Pigs littering along our roads?! How about more LE giving out more tickets to Pigs littering, Vagrants & cell phone addicts!

  2. Why are not the criminals picking up the trash??? More wasted money from gruesome Newsom. Besides it takes five Caltrans workers to watch one work.

    • Wasted money, you mean like you fools who tried to recall Newsom and failed? That pointless and baseless recall cost us taxpayers $300 MILLION. You should look in the mirror before ranting your utter nonsense.

  3. Alice in Wonderland, Are you you saying the supposed $300 million was used by the FED UP Americans doing their civic responsibility to improve our State or by Pretty Boy Gel Head Newsom to defend his lying/word jumbling/fooling/deceitful//confusing scamming behaviors?! Decent humans are tired of what the Liberals are constantly doing here and from Seattle to LA, Chicago, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Kenosha, Michigan, NY, etc. which are truths/facts——you and your Liberal Cabal cannot deny that, despite your Spin/Puffery/Diversions/Accusations/deceit with the help of censoring/lying/Demonic Big Media/Big Tech/Big Liberal Politicians! The world, unfortunately, is full of more Sheeple/followers/trenders than individuals who can see/feel intelligently through the trickery/spin!

  4. It didn’t work, Bowling Bill, so Alice is correct, it was a waste of money.

  5. Duh, Fitting name! At least the decent taxpayers tried to correct a wrong/failing! Unfortunately, the Sheeple outnumber the normal/regular humans and are easily fooled , by slick deceitful talking politicians and when their “jibber jabber” hypnotizes them, all they say/think is “Duh”——we all Pay the price! What can we do with the masses like Alice & Flo in Wonderland with their Participation Trophies in sharp/pointed fingers in hand!?

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