#Litter 2/2

Jan 7, 20183 min read

Report on Adopt-A-Highway Clean-up Saturday, January 6, 2018

JUST SAY NO TO PLASTIC STRAWS Mark your calendar: Saturday, February 17, 2018 is the next Adopt-A-Highway Litter Pickup on Highway 280. ...

Dec 30, 20171 min read

Come fill a few Adopt-A-Highway bags with me this Saturday

Did you make a resolution to get more exercise this year? Did you make one to do something positive for your community once a month?...

Dec 25, 20171 min read

Christmas Day thanks due to these workers

A FREEWAY GUARDIAN ANGEL: John’s Cribbs has worked for years with an Adopt-A-Highway group along Interstate 280 near San Jose City...

Dec 21, 20162 min read

The I-280 Clean-Up Volunteers And The Crazy Thing They Found

A note from Mr. Roadshow: I love getting monthly emails from Loui Tucker, the San Jose woman who has led an Adopt-A-Highway cleanup crew...

Nov 21, 20161 min read

Rash Of I-280 Graffiti Angers South Bay Drivers

Q I am at my wit’s end with Caltrans over the graffiti problem on Interstate 280 between Highway 87 and Lawrence Expressway. I have...

Feb 4, 20162 min read

Recycling Rates Lag as San Jose Fights its Biggest Hauler

Used diapers. A full can of beans. Batteries. Wadded-up toilet paper. Food-caked takeout containers. Greasy pizza boxes. “It’s trash,”...

Jan 28, 20133 min read

Let’s Talk Trash

When it comes the garbage services, residents have two simple requests: 1. Pick up the garbage every week in a reliable manner; 2. Do it...

Nov 26, 20105 min read

Volunteers find the most amazing things cleaning trash on highway shoulders

Why would anyone stand on the shoulder of a freeway with cars and trucks whizzing by at 65 mph, or faster, to pick up plastic bags,...