Crews had to clean an obscene amount of trash from Southern California roadways last year – and, whether you yourself littered or not, we all got to pay a lot of money to clean it up.
#Caltrans8 Banning crews cleaned I-10 & Highland Springs in Banning. What a haul! #CaltransLitterDay pic.twitter.com/l3IpaYEPnf
— Caltrans District 8 (@Caltrans8) April 21, 2016
Caltrans spent $76 million to remove 9,500 garbage trucks worth of trash from roadways in 2015, reports ABC 7. If you lined those trucks up, it would stretch for more than 50 miles – or about the distance from Riverside to LA.
#DontTrashCaliforniaDay Always secure your load. These items picked up today I-5 in #LA could cause accident, injury pic.twitter.com/7kx1KNd7C5
— Caltrans District 7 (@CaltransDist7) April 21, 2016
Not sure what is going to stop people from being jerks – is it just the people that camped out at Coachella last weekend doing this? – but maybe one of these would help.
#Caltrans8 Ontario Landscape and Electrical Crews busy cleaning SR-60 in Ontario #CaltransLitterDay pic.twitter.com/BrC1e9uTvo
— Caltrans District 8 (@Caltrans8) April 21, 2016
