MoDOT administers the Adopt-A-Highway Program to increase public awareness about the environmental needs along Missouri’s highways while at the same time providing positive community support for litter prevention and highway beautification efforts. Here’s five things you can tell your neighbors about the program:

1. Over the programs’ 20-year history, more than 100,000 people have helped clean up Missouri through Adopt-A-Highway. Currently, there are 3,858 adopter groups that have adopted 5,457 miles of highway.
2. Adopters can now adopt stretches of highway solely to plant native Missouri wildflowers.
3. Missouri boasts many different kinds of native wild flowers including coreopsis and purple coneflower. You can see the bright yellow coreopsis flower on the AAH signs statewide.
4. Thousands of volunteers picked up litter during the April No MOre Trash! Bash month. Some of the most common trash reported included fast food wrappers, beer and soda bottles and many paper items and plastic bags.
5. A few of the most unusual trash items were a rocking chair, cell phones, golf balls, a baseball mitt, skiing goggles, a prom dress and much more!