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| Inmates Help Keep NC Clean |
| By mooresvilletribune.com |
| Published: 01/24/2011 |
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Iredell County is a lot lighter from litter, thanks to the latest Litter Sweep conducted by the N.C Department of Transportation. According to statistics released recently, the two-week litter campaign that began in mid-September removed 47,535 pounds of garbage from Iredell roadsides. Participants in the litter sweeps filled 3, 213 bags with roadside litter here. DOT crews and the N.C. Department of Corrections inmate crews filled 1,789 of those bags and 1,424 bags were stuffed by Adopt-A Highway groups and other volunteers around the county. Across the state, volunteer groups and other participants removed more than 4.2 million pounds of litter from North Carolina roadsides during both of DOT’s 2010 Litter Sweeps. The first was in April. To put it in perspective, that’s the equivalent of 1.9 billion cigarettes, 134 million soda cans or 42,000 couches. Read More. |
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