Each year, the Ohio Department of Transportation is forced to spend $4 million on litter pickup.
“We’re picking 60 bags a day throughout the county. In the last two weeks, we made a sweep of the county and it’s impressive. The county looks a lot cleaner,” said Schafer
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Dayton, Ohio trash
2010 Trash Stats from The Review
- 206,000 hours picking up trash
- 392,305 bags of trash used
- Columbiana County= Litter cleanup= $115,469
ODOT reports that with that $4.4 Million taxpayer money:
- 323 culverts could have been installed,
- 40 miles of two-lane road could have been paved,
- 340 miles of guardrail could have been installed, and
- 28 snowplow trucks could have been ordered