Dolores Romero was featured on billboards throughout Dallas County beginning Tuesday, March 29, as part of the Reverse Litter program. Romero had taken the Ten for Tuesday pledge, an agreement to pick up 10 pieces of trash every Tuesday and entered her photo for the chance to be larger than life. New pictures will be featured every Tuesday between March 29 and May 17.
The Reverse Litter program is funded by the cities of Dallas, Denton, Fort Worth and the Tarrant Regional Water District.
“I have always been an advocate for picking up trash,” Romero said. “When I became aware of the program, I knew I had to join in.”
She added that she is very passionate about not littering and that we must learn to take better care of our environment.
“We need to keep America beautiful for the generations to come,” Romero said. “We should have more respect for our land, lakes and oceans.”
She sent in a photo that her son had taken during the holiday season that featured her dressed for a party and picking up litter before her departure.
““As I was leaving, I decided that I had time to pick up the litter that had blown into a field behind my house during a storm,” Romero said. “So I grabbed a trash bag and some gloves and went at it. My son came up and said that I looked like Sophia Vergara picking up trash and snapped a picture of me.”
She said that she has picked up trash before and no one had taken a picture of her so she thought maybe it was meant to be that she would be a contest winner.
Romero has strong feelings about littering and said that last week she nearly had a “rumble” with the driver of a car in front of her after he threw a grocery bag out of his window.
She said that she drove up next to him and let him know that she had seen him.
“It was a busy street or I would’ve stopped and picked it up myself,” Romero said.