Keep Chester County Beautiful: Adopt or Sponsor a Highway

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Adopt or Sponsor a Highway

Pennsylvania's Department of Transportation (PennDOT) offers a variety of beautification programs to reduce litter from Pennsylvania's state-maintained roadways.

Adopt A Highway Program

Adopt A Highway is a program that is managed by PennDOT where volunteers beautify roadsides, two miles at a time, twice a year, for two years. PennDOT provides safety vests, bags, gloves and signage for volunteers to help remove litter from Pennsylvania's roadsides.

Benefits of Adopting a Highway

PennDOT posts a sign with your/your group's name acknowledging your service.
Groups who adopt a highway receive FREE gloves, vests, trash bags, and "litter crew ahead" signs all year round from PennDOT.
Can conduct as many clean ups a year as you wish — but a minimum of twice a year on your timeframe.
PennDOT will remove bags of collected trash after results are reported.
Locating a road, registering an event, and reporting results are all simple.
Achieve cleaner roads in your township and county in the state of Pennsylvania.

PennDOT Adopt a Highway Participants

Keep Chester County Beautiful would like to thank the following groups for their participation and dedication to keeping the county litter free.

Do you wish you didn't see litter on our roads? See about joining in with one of these organizations (or sign up your group) who have already adopted stretches of roadways in Chester County to help keep it looking beautiful!

Coatesville 2nd Century Alliance
ADAM HORNER FITNESS
Afrisa
ALL4 LLC
ARM Group LLC
Avon Grove High School Football Team
AVON GROVE LIONS CLUB
AXA
Barclay Friends
BOY SCOUT TROOP 16
BOY SCOUT TROOP 20 / PACK 20
BOY SCOUT TROOP 95 (2 locations)
BOY SCOUTS TROOP 62
Brad Pedrow
BSA Troop 22
Caliber Service Management
Calvary Lutheran Church
CarShop Chester Springs
Charles River Laboratories
Charlestown Township EAC
CHESTER COUNTY CORVETTE CLUB (3 locations)
CHESTER COUNTY ENGINEERS LOCAL 542
Chester County Litter Lifters
CHESTER COUNTY TRAIL CLUB (4 locations)
CLEAN CONCEPTS CARPET CLEANING
COATESVILLE ROTARY CLUB
CONESTOGA COLLISION LLC
COVENTRY LIONS CLUB
Dan Maskarinec
Delaware Valley Paving
DHS-West National Honor Society
Dr. Shri Nanasaheb Dharmadhikari Pratishthan (6 locations)
EAST COVENTRY TOWNSHIP EMPLOYEES
EASTTOWN DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE
ELDREDGE, INC.
ELI'S WARRIORS (2 locations)
EMPLOYEES & MGMT. OF NEUBER CONCRETE
Employees of Johnson Matthey
Eric Gallagher (2 locations)
Eurofins PSS (2 locations)
Fallricks Fudge
Fellowship Farm
Forget Me Not
FRANKLIN SPORTSMAN'S ASSOCIATION
GANNETT FLEMING, INC (2 locations)
GHD
GIRLING
Great Valley Democrats
GREEN VALLEYS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
GROVE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Helping Hands
HENDERSON High School Environmental Club (2 locations)
HIGHLAND ORCHARDS, INC.
Hindu Swayam Sevak Sangh (HSS USA) Exton/Downingtown Chapter
Holy Ascension Antiochan Orthodox Christian Church
Howell Engineering, Surveying, and Environmental
HSM of America
HSS - HINDU VOLUNTEERS (2 locations)
In Honor of Bianca Roberson Merge With Mercy
ISLAMIC SOCIETY OF GREATER VALLEY FORGE
IT Pros
Jennersville YMCA
JM Health Plans (2 locations)
JOSEPH ROBINS
J-S All Things Plumbing
Judy Bennett
Kennedy Home Inspections (3 locations)
Kennett Square Family Dentistry
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS COUNCIL 1333
L0bster Systems
Litter Lifters of West Vincent
LuluBee Adventures
MAIN LINE UNITARIAN CHURCH
Manfredi Farms, LLC
MARSHALLTON CONSERVATION TRUST
MORINA FAMILY
Mt. Pickering Masonic Lodge
Nicol Baker & Family
NORTHBROOK CANOE CO.
Octorara FFA
Optical On Point
PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE AVONDALE
PEOPLE WHO USE TRASH CANS
PERNA & ABRACHT, LLC (2 locations)
Pi Epsilon Alpha Sigma PEAS Incorporated (2 locations)
RESIDENTS OF BRITTANY HILLS
RIDGE FIRE COMPANY
ROTARY CLUB OF CENTRAL CHESTER COUNTY
Rotary Club of Kennett Square (2 locations)
ROTARY CLUB OF POTTSTOWN
Rotary Passport Club of West Chester
Russellville Grange
Ryan Strope
RYAN TYLER STATE FARM AGENCY (3 locations)
Sam Stanton LLC (2 locations)
Save the Schuylkill
SCHUYLKILL TOWNSHIP E A C (2 locations)
SECCRA COMMUNITY LANDFILL (2 locations)
Siena Gold Farm, LLC
St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church (2 locations)
St. Matthews United Methodist Church (2 locations)
ST. PETER'S KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
Stephanie Rarick
Swayne Campbell Testa VFW Post 5467
T.K.E. FRATERNITY at WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY
The Bowers Family
The Employees Association of SCI Phoenix
The Job CentervTHE ROBIE CONTRACTING & LANDSCAPING CO.
The Seidenberg Family
The Shumates
The Sidebottom Family (2 locations)
Thomson Lodge No. 340
THORNDALE ROTARY CLUB
TREMBLAY FAMILY AND FRIENDS
TROOP #4, BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
TWIN VALLEY ROTARY CLUB
UPLAND COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC.
Uwchlan EAC
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5467
VIRTUAL FARM CREATIVE
Walls Family
West Bradford Litter Lifters
West Brandywine Township
WEST CHESTER CYCLING CLUB
West Pikeland Township EAC
West Whiteland & West Pikeland Democrats
Westtown EAC
WESTTOWN GOSHEN ROTARY
Wildflower Farm
Your Friends on Grandview Circle
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Epsilon Omega Zeta Chapter

Sponsor A Highway Program

While PennDOT's Adopt-A-Highway program uses volunteers to maintain adopted sections of roadways, Sponsor-A-Highway involves businesses contracting with one of two approved vendors to perform roadside litter removal. These vendors manage litter removal programs throughout the Commonwealth and have cleaned over one million miles of US highways and interstates. The PennDOT approved vendors are Adopt a Highway Litter Removal Service of America, Inc. and Adopt a Highway Maintenance Corporation.

Benefits of Sponsoring a Highway

Business' name is displayed prominently as the road's sponsor on a sign along the roadway
Helps to meet and convey corporate responsibility goals
Businesses will help create a cleaner and healthier environment locally
Sponsorship sends a message to the people traveling in their cars, that they care about the environment and their community
Serves as a visible way to display goodwill toward a particular community
Businesses will send a message to their employees that caring for the environment is a priority and can "Lead by Example"
Ease of transaction — the company they hire will do all the work, including obtaining PennDOT approval for location of signs, sign installation, and litter clean ups
Businesses will deal with the vendor directly, and the vendor will coordinate with PennDOT

Sponsor a Highway Organizations

Road and Area Adoption Program

Keep PA Beautiful's Road and Area Adoption Program is a program that allows for individuals and groups to "adopt" areas to help keep them clean and beautiful. This program that compliments both Adopt a Highway and Sponsor a Highway programming offered through the state. This program is available for most municipal roads, trails, waterways and even city blocks!

This program requires volunteers to clean their adopted space at least twice a year, report your results online within two weeks of completion & following the clean up guidelines of Keep PA Beautiful.

Find more information on the Road and Area Adoption Program.

Still have questions? Contact Stephanie Larson at slarson@keeppabeautiful.org or 724-836-4121 x104.

PennDOT's Customer Care Program

Did you see an item on a state road that should be removed? You can submit a "concern" through PennDOT's Customer Care website.