Snow shields all manner of detritus thrown from cars, or dumped by pedestrians and passing pooches. But when the snow melts, a winter’s worth of litter emerges along roads and pathways.

Every year on the first Saturday in May, volunteers take to the roads in a uniquely Vermont spring tradition — Green Up Day, the great equalizer, where everyone from children to the governor gets out onto the roads to pick up trash.

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