More Than 6 Million Pounds of Roadside Litter Collected This Year
Yearly total to date now matches total litter collection in 2020 RALEIGH – The N.C. Department of Transportation’s crews, contractors, and volunteers have collected more than 6 million pounds of litter from roadsides and are on pace to exceed the record for litter collection set in 2019. As of Wednesday, 6.3 million pounds of litter have been picked up from roadsides as a part of this year’s litter removal efforts. That’s roughly the same amount as was collected in 2020 and puts the state on track to surpass 2019’s record, when 10.5 million pounds of litter were collected.