A Garbage Hauler Tidies Up Its Image
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Waste Management has been trying to clean up its name as thoroughly as it cleans up trash, in part by going green.
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Rollo, they are taking old plastic and turning it into backyard equipment.
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By Doris Benavides, The Orange County Register, Calif.  Sep. 11--During the day Rosa Barron, 26, is a garbage-truck driver, in  the evening she assumes her role as mother and during the weekends she turns  into a "girlie girl" who sometimes likes to go clubbing.
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By Simon Read, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 9--A discarded washing machine lies on its side along a dirt tract near Tommy's Harbor. Garbage bags and other trash have been dumped in the nearby weeds.
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In an industrial area of St. Louis, a quixotic artist and entrepreneur is using 182,000 truckloads of dirt to help build a park filled with sculpture and obsolete machinery.
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By Lisa P. White, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Sep. 22--BELLEVILLE -- The city's two new automated trash trucks are scheduled to start making the rounds through some of the newer subdivisions the week of Nov. 6.
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By Joe Nixon, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Feb. 1--Garbage collection in Palmer will have a new, uniform look if supervisors adopt the recommendation of the township Environmental Steering Committee in deciding on a new five-year garbage contract.
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REDONDO BEACH, Calif. (Reuters Life!) - Dusty, rusty and   dark, a shipping container may seem an unappealing home to   anyone but, perhaps, a rat.
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By Michael Biesecker, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  May 31--RALEIGH -- Human waste trickles out of a rusting single-wide trailer in Oak Hill Estates, draining to a rivulet that flows past children's toys before disappearing into head-high weeds.
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The iron ore producer is taking energy matters into its own hands.
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The megadiscounter spruces up its slogan.
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STRAHAM, N.H. - The self-described &quot;Sign Bandit&quot; is back. This time, he's not just throwing away the temporary roadside signs he calls ugly and unsafe. Instead, John Decker is putting bright orange stickers on them and branding them litter.
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Upstart NRG Dock shows off a general-purpose solar panel and battery to power electronics.
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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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In the corporate imagination of General Motors, Hummer could be transformed from the SUV that environmentalists love to hate to an algae-infused, oxygen-exuding buggy that would open up like a flower.
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It appears that the news that we are killing ourselves with our garbage hasnât sunk in. Thatâs one reason âThe 11th Hourâ is such essential viewing.
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Ciro Viento commands a platoon of 110 garbage trucks, so when a caller complained after seeing one of the blue and white trash tanks speeding down Route 22, Viento didn't know which driver to blame. Until he checked his computer.