Local second-chance employer helps keep the streets clean while changing lives [Video]

INDIANAPOLIS — Just about anywhere you drive, you see trash. 

Cans and bottles are the most common but aren’t the only items on the side of the road. The crews at Interstate Business Solutions (IBS) know this very well because they see it all.

“All kinds of trash, from baby clothes to household items,” said Deidra Anderson with IBS. “Tires, car parts, everything.”

IBS has collected more than 25 million pounds of litter across eight states including Indiana. But cleaning up interstates is only one part of the company’s mission. 

“We are a second chance employer,” said JD Brooks, IBS president.

IBS is actually changing the lives of the people doing the work. The company offers jobs to those who’ve been homeless, battling substance abuse or people who’ve been incarcerated.

“I wound up getting into some trouble when I was 17, …