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"Cigarette butts, mattresses and ladders are just some examples of a multimillion-dollar issue plaguing California's freeways, said the California Department of Transportation.\"I don't people understand how big an issue this issue is. ... and how much it costs taxpayers,\" said Rick Land, Chief Deputy Director for the California Department of Transportation supervisor.Caltrans crews will be out across the state picking up trash to bring attention to the litter problem on state highways, according to a news release.Watch out for Caltrans workers along highwaysLast year alone, the state agency spent $52 million on litter removal, collecting enough litter, trash, and debris from freeways to fill more than 10,000 garbage trucks.\"That is money that could have been used for other projects,\" said Land.Caltrans is asking drivers to slow in areas of trash removal crews throughout the day."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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