The four-week Logan County cleanup netted nearly 5 million pounds of trash.

Logan County Administrator Roscoe "Rocky" Adkins said the trash collections, which are held in Logan, Man, Chapmanville and back in Logan, took in 302 tons of garbage, which is 4.6 million pounds of garbage.

"Isn't that crazy," Adkins asked.

"The commissioners hope that through their efforts and the efforts of the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection in their sponsorship of the program, that people start to take more pride in cleaning their areas and property," Adkins said. "We hope they try to keep their property clean because we have so many tourists coming into the county and we want them to see how beautiful it is here."

The cleanup starts each year in Logan and then travels around to Man and Chapmanville and then returns to Logan for its final week. The trash collection is completely free to all Logan County residents and they can bring in anything that is not hazardous waste. The county then transports the trash to a transfer station. The cleanup opens at 8 a.m. each morning and lasts until 6 p.m. and residents are always lined up waiting in trash-loaded vehicles.

Adkins said the county commission hopes the cleanup can help people change the way they dispose of their trash.

"This is, hopefully, an investment into changing the thought processes of what people do with stuff that needs to be discarded," Adkins said.

The countywide cleanup has been in existence four years and Adkins said he believes this year's total collection is the biggest yet.

"I think it was just short of 3 million pounds last year," Adkins said. "We want this to make Logan County more beautiful for the tourists and for the people who live here. I want the property owner to want his property to look better than the year before. That's a mindset that we all need to have — taking pride in what they own."