"A Little on the Trashy Side: Texas Trash-Off Kicks Off April 2"

Published: March 18, 2011, noon

b"If you received an itemized bill for the highway system in Texas, most of the items you'd find wouldn't surprise you. The department spends millions each year on asphalt, gasoline, and equipment repairs just to keep the roadways open. And then you'd see a $47 million item for ... litter clean-up? Could that be right? To find out more about that cost and what TxDOT is doing to bring it down, I spoke with Brenda Flores-Dollar, the program director for the Don't Mess With Texas program."