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By AMANDA REAVY STAFF WRITER  One of Springfield's few recycling drop-off sites, F&W Resources, 3327 Terminal Ave., burned late Wednesday in a spectacular fire fueled by stacked bales of paper and other recyclables.  The north-end fire was reported at 8:51 p.m.
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By JUDY O'ROURKE  SANTA CLARITA -- A state-of-the-art recycling center stalled by lawsuits from occupying a planned Newhall business park is now envisioned for a site between Newhall and Canyon Country.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A man sleeping in a trash receptacle was injured Thursday after being dumped into a trash truck and then compacted. The extent of the man's injuries is not clear, said Joe Vitale, battalion chief with the Kansas City Fire Department.
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A fire set by a homeless person affected the A and the C lines. Full service may not be restored for three to five years.
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GERMANTOWN  Board sets hearing on recycling center plan  The Village Board will hold a public hearing at 7:45 p.m. Monday on a proposal by Waste Management of Wisconsin to put a recycling center and offices at the former Smith & Nephew site at N104-W13400 Donges Bay Road.
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Throw away the matches and get rid of the lighter if you want to kick the smoking habit. The Peoria City/County Health Department is there to help.
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By Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Feb. 3--Thomas Wood, owner of a now-defunct Chugiak auto repair shop, thought he would get rid of his waste oil and chemicals on the cheap by paying a couple of young men who apparently wanted the stuff to set fires at Jim Creek.
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By Dan Sorenson, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Sep. 22--A stubborn magnesium fire at a South Side recycling business ignited propane tanks, tying dozens of firefighters up for hours Thursday and closing down the business for at least the next few days.
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By Rita Savard, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 23--CHELMSFORD -- Paying high fees for trash removal prompted residents to raise a stink in the past.
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Electronic Recyclers:  WHAT: The Clovis East High School Football Booster Club in Clovis will hold a one day electronics recycling fund raiser on Saturday, February 3rd from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Waste center hopes to get rid of debris where water collects and mosquitoes tend to breed. By Diana Lamirand. Recycling junk tires may take a bite out of the local mosquito population.
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The company converts municipal solid waste, including sewage sludge, into a solid that can be burned as fuel.
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Dropped, dunked or otherwise abused, your injured iPod need not go to that great landfill in the sky. Call a miracle worker instead. By the Associated Press.
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By Erika Ray, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Dec. 10--When flames erupted from a barn stocked with bales of straw and hay east of Findlay in October, the Vanlue Volunteer Fire Department was notified of the emergency.   Six firefighters responded out of the 24 on its roster.
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By Douglas Fischer  Flame retardants are generating some heat of their own as concerned researchers and lawmakers note rising levels in the environment and step up efforts to ban them from everyday household products.
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This is where computers go to die a green death. Inside Hewlett-Packard Co.'s cavernous recycling plant in the Sacramento suburbs, truckloads of obsolete PCs, servers and printers collected from consumers and businesses nationwide are cracked open by goggled workers who pull out batteries, circuit boards and other potentially hazardous components.
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By Jon Schubin, The Wichita Eagle, Kan.  Sep. 6--In 12 to 18 months, Harvey County could be burning its trash to create electricity.   The Harvey County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday authorized the creation of a formal agreement between Quality Recycling Inc.