On average, Ohio Department of Transportation crews collect more than 400,000 bags of other people’s trash from along our roadsides each year. This effort costs about $4 million each year.
So ODOT is asking the public to help with the litter problem. ODOT has produced a public service announcement in an effort to stop litter at its source.
The same men and women who pick up trash along our roadways also perform other work like plowing snow, patching potholes, repairing guardrail, mowing grass, and replacing culverts. Picking up other people’s trash takes them away from those jobs. So Ohioans are being asked to help by doing something most learned in elementary school: Use a trash can.
