Towering Trash Piles to Move
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By Matt Frazier, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Feb. 10--Mounds of manure, hay and garbage dumped in the 1300 block of Bonds Ranch Road have been traced to a Fort Worth Stock Show waste-removal vendor, who has agreed to move the piles, a city spokesman said Friday.
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By Scott Harper, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 14--PORTSMOUTH -- SPSA, the regional waste authority, learned this week that burning rain-soaked garbage at its power plant near downtown Portsmouth is not such a good idea.   Actually, it stinks.
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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 Traci Watson  Never mind solar panels and windmills. Communities across the nation are turning to an unlikely source of clean energy: garbage.
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LAND Phil, the walking rubbish heap, is the latest recruit in the fight to go green and protect the environment in Birmingham.   Phil was an eye-catching inhabitant of an environmental village built in Victoria Square as part of World Environment Day.
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MILFORD, Neb. - A large pile of composting manure burning for almost two months has neighbors upset and state officials looking for a way to put it out.
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Angry residents have set fire to dozens of heaps of rubbish in a worsening dispute with the authorities.
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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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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.
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Turkey, deer and songbirds abound in a pastoral setting in Roanoke County, but under the surface lies the volatile legacy of an old landfill: explosive gases and contaminated fluids.  The mixture will require daily maintenance for decades and cost taxpayers millions, officials say.
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Naples' garbage crisis may worsen with the planned weekend closure of the only working dump in the area, officials said yesterday, as rubbish continued to pile up in the city.
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Naples' garbage crisis may worsen with the planned weekend closure of the only working dump in the area and piles of trash growing higher, officials said Thursday.
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By John Castellucci; Journal Staff Writer  PAWTUCKET - A City Council committee is recommending the elimination of fees for the pickup of bulky trash items.
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SIX binmen were taken to hospital today after a split rubbish bag caused a chemical alert in Ilford. The men were handling rubbish in Elgin Road at 7.50am when the bag split, spilling liquid onto the ground and releasing toxic fumes which they inhaled.
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By Jake Armstrong, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Feb. 24--TRACY -- Officials plan to squirrel away some of the city's liquid assets.
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AZ Trash Guys is now offering trash and junk removal services in the  Phoenix metro area. The Fountain Hills-based company can handle just  about any size job, residential or commercial, with its mega-sized dump  trailer (19 cubic yards), tractor and Bobcat.
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By Alex Breitler, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep. 18--MANTECA -- Apartment dwellers: Step out to your communal garbage bin and take a look inside.   Ninety percent of what has been dumped there, according to city officials, could have been recycled.