Drivers urged to slow down near roadside cleanup crews<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
Several hundred volunteers will take part in a regional litter cleanup effort Friday, Nov. 13, through Sunday, Nov. 15, removing litter from roadways throughout Lexington and Richland counties and along streets within the City of Columbia.<\/p>\n
Volunteers will represent churches, businesses, neighborhoods, university groups and other organizations.<\/p>\n
Drivers are encouraged to slow down when they see signs indicating a litter cleanup is underway or volunteers wearing brightly colored safety vests working along roadways.<\/p>\n
Keep the Midlands Beautiful coordinates the Adopt-A-Highway, Adopt-A-Street and Adopt-A-Waterway programs for all 19 municipalities in Lexington and Richland counties.<\/p>\n
The organization provides free cleanup supplies to more than 300 volunteer groups each year. Supplies include safety vests, litter grabbers, cloth gloves, safety signs, and trash and recycling bags.<\/p>\n
To learn more about volunteer opportunities, make a donation or sponsor an event or program, visit kmbsc.org<\/a>, email programs@kmbsc.org or call 803-733-1139.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Drivers urged to slow down near roadside cleanup crews Several hundred volunteers will take part in a regional litter cleanup effort Friday, Nov. 13, through Sunday, Nov. 15, removing litter from roadways throughout Lexington and Richland counties and along streets within the City of Columbia. Volunteers will represent churches, businesses,Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[1422],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-news","tag-litter-cleanup"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/SCDOT-Litter-Cleanup_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}