Are you a litter know-it-all?  Even if you are, you may be surprised by some of these litter facts.
 
Did You Know?

• The Georgia Department of Transportation picks up more than two million bags of trash along our interstates each year.  If you laid those bags end-to-end, they would stretch more than 1,000 miles!
• Each Georgia resident disposes of approximately 6.3 pounds of trash each day.  In one year that adds up to more than 2,300 pounds.  That's as much as eight baby elephants!
• The most commonly found items during roadside litter clean ups are cigarette butts, fast food wrappers and aluminum cans.
• Littering is against the law.  Anyone caught littering in Georgia can be ordered to pay a fine of $100 to $1,000.  People who litter can also be ordered to clean up the littered area.
• It can take one million years for a glass bottle to decompose!  Plastic foam cups and aluminum cans may take up to 500 years to disintegrate.