EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the final installment in a three-part series on illegal dumping. Today’s article focuses on what happens when laws are broken and enforced. Monday’s article addressed who can and how to enforce laws. Sunday’s article defined what constitutes illegal dumping.



Robbers, murderers and rapists often go to prison, but who would have guessed that dumping trash could land someone in the same place?

If Texas Illegal Dumping Resource Center’s director, Dr. John Ockels, has anything to say about it, punishment will become swifter and surer.