7M Pounds of Trash Pulled From Waterways
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
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By Rowena Coetsee, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Jan. 31--Expecting to receive an infusion of money soon, Contra Costa sheriff's deputies are preparing for yet another round of pulling abandoned boats out of the Delta.
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ST. JOHN&#39;S, NFLD. -- An environmental assessment panel predicted seven years ago how hard it would be to clean up oil spills from a project off Newfoundland that spilled 170,000 litres into the Atlantic last week.
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By Josh Rabe, The Daily Oklahoman  Dec. 9--ALTUS -- State agriculture officials helped collect more than 62,000 pounds of pesticides this week in an effort to get rid of old, unwanted chemicals.
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By Jeff Wilkinson, The State, Columbia, S.C.  Sep. 17--Volunteers hope creating city park will end need for annual cleanup   Volunteers plucked more than 2,000 cans and bottles from a 200-yard stretch of the Saluda River around Riverbanks Zoo on Saturday -- mostly beer containers.
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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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Boats have become a necessary means of transport in the flooded streets of Quxian, north-east of Sichuan province. Picture:Reuters.
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press. The spill _ the worst on the river in nearly a decade _ stranded commercial vessels trying to move goods through the busy Port of Philadelphia
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AD DEIRAT, West Bank - As the truck unloads, the children pounce on the trash like flies. Some swing aloft on the hydraulic pistons that open the back, then drop onto the mound to grab a piece of metal, a crushed can, a soda bottle, or a smelly T-shirt.
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Floodwaters swept a truck down a raging river in remote southern Zimbabwe, killing seven people, police said Friday.
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By Anna King, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Feb. 7--Workers on Tuesday towed to safety a piece of motorized track equipment that dangled from a bridge over the Columbia River.
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By DEBRA LEMOINE  HAMMOND - Hammond's $7.5 million sewer treatment system, which discharges into wetlands seven miles south of the city, is now up and running, city officials said.
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Smokers are littering shorelines and waterways worldwide with millions of cigarettes, and their filters topped the list of trash items culled during last year's annual international coastal cleanup, according to a new report.
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By Tom Coombe, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  May 31--A Plainfield Township landfill has paid a $56,000 fine for letting litter escape from its boundaries.
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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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At least 10 people died and thousands were sickened after chemical waste pumped from a tanker was dumped across the capital city in August.
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Indonesia's capital was cleaning up on Saturday after several days of torrential rain engulfed parts of the city with up to 1.5 meters (5 ft) of water, killing three people and displacing around 7,000, a health official said.