Separating the Trash
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War-zone waste from places like Iraq has made India a dangerous dumping ground
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In the good old days, clutter kings smothered under mountains of their own trash. Like everything else, compulsive hoarding has gone digital. By Jeff Koyen.
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By Bob Hood, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 4--If the inside of your tackle box looks like a can of worms, it's probably time to empty it and start over.
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By John Stark, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 9--The final cleanup of a dump along the Nooksack River's south fork could cost a half million dollars or more, but no source for that money is immediately available.
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Plan to have domestic rubbish weighed by microchips in bins in order to encourage recycling.
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One recent Saturday morning, I woke with one seemingly simple thing in mind: cleaning out and organizing the closets in my bedroom. If my closets were a database system, the contents would be stored as BLOBs (binary large objects) of varying sizes with no defining structure â just a dumping ground for stuff. As I began dragging things out of the closet, I found items as varied as a backpack, a pair of old ski gloves, about 10 square feet of foam padding, and pocket change in three different international currencies (anyone need Thai bahts?). Faced with a mound of the messy detritus of my own life, I did what most people would probably do: I went to the store to buy even more stuff to organize the stuff I already had.
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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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By Jim Puzzanghera  WASHINGTON  --  As new high-definition televisions fly off store shelves, millions of old sets soon could be flying into the trash.
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Hey, how about generating power from trash disposal? A Florida county plans to use plasma arcs to turn garbage into gas and use by products to make electricity to sell back to the grid. Skeptics doubt landfills will disappear.
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Add heaps of red worms to mountains of raw, rotting garbage. Then collect the worms' feces, brew it into a liquid, and squeeze it into a used soda bottle.
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By Katie Mulvaney; Journal Staff Writer  SOUTH KINGSTOWN - Legislation that would give the Town Council the authority to hire a single trash hauler to pick up garbage and recyclables townwide has passed the state Senate and the House.    Sen. V.
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By Jannette Pippin, The Daily News, Jacksonville, N.C.  Dec. 18--EMERALD ISLE -- After the gifts have been unwrapped and the tree has come down, stacks of empty boxes and bags of trash remain.
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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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Businesses that have taken control of their electronic waste problems are finding it can pay off in many ways.
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By Fraser Sherman, Destin Log, Fla.  Feb. 10--Garbage pick-up, Destin's Mark LeBrasseur says, is a service he pays for, not a favor from Waste Management Inc.
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By Michael Milstein, The Oregonian, Portland, Ore.  Feb. 8--We're throwing more and more of our plastic containers away  instead of recycling them, for the first time triggering state rules meant to  coax more plastic bottles, jugs and other products back into recycle bins.
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Looking for a way to separate the keepers from the duds? Look no further.