For the last 40 years, the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) has administered a litter grant program, playing a critical role in reducing the amount of litter on Tennessee’s nearly 97,000 miles of public roads.
The funding was established in 1983 by Tennessee’s Soft Drink and Malt Beverage industries, according to TDOT, and has helped improve communities in all 95 Tennessee counties. Counties use the funding from the program for initiatives that include litter and tarp law enforcement, cleanup and recycling events, litter prevention campaigns, and participation in multijurisdictional and statewide collaborations with TDOT’s Nobody Trashes Tennessee litter prevention campaign and Keep Tennessee Beautiful and its local affiliates.
