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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Litter costs Georgia millions

Litter on Georgia roadways costs taxpayers more than a million dollars a week. The state Department of Transportation says it spent $1.3 million in a recent week-long roadway trash collection. In that one week, crews picked up nearly a million pounds of garbage. The DOT already spends $15-million annually on litter removal throughout the year.

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