EDITORIAL: Garbage, Garbage Everywhere: Crows Landing Neighborhood Still Coping With Mountains of Junk
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By The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 11--When David Moreno looks around, he sees all the evidence of an illegal dump.
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Suffolk should keep, not end, curbside recycling   Not only are my husband, Jim, and I extremely unhappy about the elected mayor and council members' decision to discontinue curbside recycling, many of our neighbors are as well.
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By Laith Agha, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Mar. 12--Landfill, solid waste management site, environmental park -- call it what you will. Just don't call it a dump.
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By Beccy Tanner, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Mar. 9--On any given night, three major crow populations move about and roost in Wichita. And where crows gather, a nasty by-product threatens public health.   Crow poop.   Cars have been bombed.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jun. 24--Trash dumps used to be for garbage and vultures.   But Catawba County is developing the next generation of landfills: places where garbage and sewage become commodities with little left over to clutter or pollute.
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By Blair Goldstein, Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.  Feb. 11--Twice a month for almost two years, Wayne Morton has met with his neighbors to organize against a dump.
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By Jeffrey B. Cohen, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 7--For now at least, all that stands between a new sex shop and Hartford's South Meadows is, well, trash.
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By DANA BARTHOLOMEW  LAKE VIEW TERRACE -- For decades, neighbors shut their windows to the hideous smell, dust and noise from the Lopez Canyon Landfill.  Now city officials are asking community members to help plan a park on the former 400-acre dump.
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By Katherine Tam, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 15--Garbage rates could go up in Danville, Lamorinda and Walnut Creek to cover a $1 million shortfall.
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By MATTHEW THOMPSON  The city of Charleston is getting back in the composting game, but this time city residents won't get a chance to buy what's made from their yard waste.
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By Matt O'Brien  HAYWARD -- The fruits of a 33 percent trash rate hike will begin rolling through the streets of Hayward on Monday.   And they don't smell yet.
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There is a quiet battle for the future of this industrial town, one of America's most polluted places.
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By Jacqueline L. Urgo, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Jun. 17--ABSECON, N.J. -- Kim Bannister walks out her front door and sighs.   Her concrete driveway is covered with large pools of stinking bird excrement and rotting crab shells.
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The Naples region was grappling Thursday with a chronic rubbish disposal problem, with at least 2,000 tonnes of excess garbage piled up outside dumps and in the streets.
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By Kathleen Kreller, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Jan. 30--Boise residents would have to pay more for garbage pickup,  recycling and sewer hookups with proposed fee increases.   The Boise City Council will consider the fee increases during a public  hearing tonight.
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The Navy plans to haul away 13,000 dump-truck loads of polluted soil from an old landfill on Camp Peary. It will be a $5.5 million cleanup project that is expected to last two years.
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By Mary Macdonald, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution  Jun. 2--Used to be fixing the sewers, adding sidewalks and getting the  trash picked up on time was enough.    Now cities feel they need to help save the planet.