Trash

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Trash: - Material considered worthless or offensive that is thrown away. Generally defined as dry waste material, but in common usage it is a synonym for garbage, rubbish, or refuse.
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LAPD joins fight against trash dumping in South Los Angeles  -  05 Aug 2008
Los Angeles Times,In an interview, Garner acknowledged that people have dumped trash in public byways with virtual impunity for far too long. Violators have become so brazen,

Trash pickup resumes Wednesday, but not for large debris  -  05 Aug 2008
Beaumont Enterprise,By MATTHEW DANELO According to the City of Beaumont Solid Waste division, trash pickup will resume tomorrow, but there is no large brush pickup scheduled

Trash Fee Increased Expected to be Approved Tuesday  -  05 Aug 2008
MyFox Los Angeles,A city ordinance that would increase trash fees by 30 percent is expected to receive final approval today from the Los Angeles City Council.

College move-outs cause trash troubles  -  05 Aug 2008
TheDigitel,It also means piles of extra trash on the curbs of downtown Charleston. The Post and Courier recently looked into the problems caused when college students

Building With Trash Heap, No Power Could Be Evacuated  -  05 Aug 2008
NBC6.net,Residents of a condominium complex at Northwest 16th Avenue and 15th Street said their trash has not been collected in four or five months.

Oracle wants action, not trash talk  -  05 Aug 2008
Arizona Daily Star,Pinal County got out of the trash business in the mid-1990s when it sold its landfills and transfer stations to private outfits, Doolittle said.

White Trash Druggie Turned New York Times Reporter Writes Book  -  05 Aug 2008
BloombergI had become a white trash untouchable, all festering pus and contagion.'' He was shooting coke as the next step after ``two hard years'' of smoking crack.

Churning out fashionable items from trash  -  05 Aug 2008
Malaysia Star,Aswin Aditya, founder of the Jakarta-based company Plastic Works, buys plastic packaging from trash scavengers for US$0.66 (RM2) a kilogramme.

Local trash wash-up may have links to Wisconsin  -  05 Aug 2008
Petoskey News-Review,Michigan Department of Natural Resources conservation officer Carl VanderWall described the mess as “quite a bit of trash� that covered most of the length

One arrested after drug found in trash  -  05 Aug 2008
Breckenridge American,It should be considered trash, but hiding marijuana in a trash bag will not keep the police from finding it. Breckenridge Police Sgt. Jeff Baker stopped a

SF Mayor goes medieval on trash - Recycle or face $1000 fine  -  05 Aug 2008
TG DailyThe mayor is proposing tough, very tough, new recycling measures that require residents to properly place trash in the appropriate bins.

Trash fees in LA expected to go up  -  05 Aug 2008
abc7.com,LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Trash fees in Los Angeles could be going up by thirty percent. The city council is expected to give final approval to the proposal

Recycling center may be relocated  -  05 Aug 2008
Ocala,Marion's recycling centers are where residents drop off household trash in a county where they do not have the option of curbside pick up.

Mountains Of Trash Smells Trouble For Dade Tenants  -  05 Aug 2008
CBS 4,...complex in northwest Miami-Dade where discarded trash has been left over a period of time putting living conditions for the tenants in jeopardy.

Cost of trash pickup rises in La Grange  -  05 Aug 2008
Louisville Courier-Journal,The cost of trash collection in La Grange has been increased by 82 cents a month this year. The City Council last night passed a resolution that set the

Trash for trails deal in Manor Twp.  -  05 Aug 2008
Lancaster Newspapers,By DAVID O’CONNOR, Staff A trash-for-trails trade between Manor Township and Lancaster County's solid waste agency could be a boon to future generations of

Jon Spencer's Heavy Trash to hit Dublin  -  05 Aug 2008
hotpress.com (subscription),The Blues Explosion and, sniff, Pussy Galore are no more as Jon Spencer brings his new outfit Heavy Trash to Andrew’s Lane Theatre, Dublin on September 26.

Civic Center Blues: Trash can menagerie  -  05 Aug 2008
Rocky Mountain News,And if you do, isn't their trash likely to be commercial? Unsightly as they are, the Dumpsters are the only place to throw trash along The Park's entire

County says trash company didn't follow the rules  -  05 Aug 2008
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com,BY LINDA STEIN A North Jersey trash company that collects the waste from a Hamilton steak house may face upward of $37000 in fines, a lawyer for the Mercer

New Hanover will seek trash disposal ideas  -  05 Aug 2008
StarNewsOnline.com,Kopp said he was hoping to tap into the wealth of solid waste management knowledge in New Hanover to review the county's trash-disposal practices.

Lib Dems trash bungled green box collections  -  05 Aug 2008
Reading Evening Post,Goal Post have teamed up with matchsports.co.uk to offer you the chance to win a full kit for your football team. An opposition councillor has rubbished the

Trash change vote is tonight  -  05 Aug 2008
Sauk Valley Newspapers,By Joseph Bustos STERLING - After taking some time to process the matter, the Sterling City Council will vote tonight on whether to change trash pickup days

Trash cans can’t hang out on the street  -  05 Aug 2008
FayObserver.com,Q: What is the ordinance that governs people not pulling their trash cans back from the curb and leaving them out all week? — TO, Fayetteville A: That

San Francisco May Institute the Garbage Police  -  05 Aug 2008
Wizbang,Gavin Newsome wants to institute a $1000 fine for San Franciscans who don't sort their trash correctly. WTF??? Garbage collectors would inspect San

Illegal Dumpers Trash Yigo  -  05 Aug 2008
Pacific News CenterThey’re really cleaning up in the village of Yigo, but Mayor Bob Lizama says they could be doing more productive things than picking up trash illegally

Its a trash crisis  -  05 Aug 2008
Deccan Herald,Britain, particularly, is in the midst of a trash crisis, where residents are forced to produce less and recycle more. The citizens of Whitehaven try,

Let’s talk trash, answer by volunteering for Coastal Cleanup on ...  -  05 Aug 2008
Temple Terrace University Beacon,Saturday mornings traversing roadsides, riverbanks and coastline picking up trash that someone else irresponsibly tossed out of a car window, or left behind

New trash service working despite some missed streets  -  05 Aug 2008
Daily Iberian,BY MARY CATHARINE MARTIN THE DAILY IBERIAN Eight months after New Iberia transitioned to Allied Waste’s automated trash pick up, many residents and council

Residents trash Brewster dump policy  -  05 Aug 2008
Cape Cod Times,By Robin Lord BREWSTER — Jim Geisler has been finding treasures at landfills ever since he was a child scouring for parts for his first soapbox derby car.

Assumption trash pick-up rates to rise in a month  -  05 Aug 2008
Daily Comet,THIBODAUX – Assumption Parish residents will be saddled with a higher trash pick-up bill in less than a month as a result of rising fuel costs.

The City of Beaumont has cancelled all curb-side trash pick up on ...  -  05 Aug 2008
Beaumont Enterprise,Heavy trash and yard waste can remain at the curb for pickup later this week. Trash pickup is scheduled to resume on Wednesday. Trash that would have been

Trash Fire Slows I-71 Traffic  -  05 Aug 2008
10TV,The driver noticed that the trash was on fire and pulled over to the side of the interstate and dumped the garbage onto the road.

Fringe By Numbers: Day Four, "This Play is Trash"  -  05 Aug 2008
Minneapolis City Pages,The final piece (written by Nick Vaky) is about a man who carries his belonging in a trash bag (probably not too surprising considering he lives on the

Metro seeks US home for trash  -  05 Aug 2008
Ashcroft Cache Creek Journal,The spectre of more US-bound trash trains rolling through seaside Surrey and White Rock has already drawn fire from some Semiahmoo Peninsula residents.

Water system won't bill for city  -  05 Aug 2008
Greenville News,By Nathaniel Cary • STAFF WRITER • August 5, 2008 Greenville Water System has rejected Simpsonville's request to add its new trash tipping fee to water

RecycleBank® Rewards Program Helps Nearly Double Recycling Rate in ...  -  05 Aug 2008
Business Wire (press release),...“We knew that our customers could do more recycling and RecycleBank provided the motivation,� said Brad Baty, General Manager of AAA Recycling and Trash

Bomb hidden in trash pile kills 20 Somalis  -  Aug 3, 2008
The Associated PressEthiopian base on a main road often used by officials and may have detonated after a street cleaner attempted to shovel up the trash covering the bomb.

Maine island loses mail delivery tradition  -  Aug 2, 2008
Boston Globe,...in which mail was delivered to a small offshore island by a private ferry service and left in a specially marked trash can on the island's dock.

Maine island loses trash can mail delivery service  -  Aug 2, 2008
The Associated Press...which mail delivered to Maine's small offshore Sutton Island by a private ferry service was left in a specially marked trash can on the island's dock.

Maine island loses mail delivery tradition  -  Aug 3, 2008
USA TodayEven after the deliveries were halted, the trash can still serves as a meeting spot, but not to the degree it did it in the past, said Andy Potter,

Island loses a cherished tradition: mail delivery to trash can  -  Aug 1, 2008
Bangor Daily News,Any island residents expecting anything in the mail would simply stroll down some paths to the dock, remove the lid on the aluminum trash can, and fish out

SF counts wrappers for a litter lowdown  -  Aug 1, 2008
San Francisco Chronicle,A "litter audit" by the Department of the Environment found 6308 pieces of trash during a survey of 132 sites in April. Surveyors had the disgusting job of

Ex-boyfriend's murder trial to start  -  Aug 3, 2008
Indianapolis Star,He then tried to burn her body inside a plastic trash can in the basement before using a chain saw to cut it into pieces, the affidavit says; he deposited

Need new decor? Look in your trash can  -  Aug 4, 2008
Examiner.comBALTIMORE (Map, News) - To find your new favorite accessory or household item, sift through the 4.6 pounds of trash you produce each day. Don’t believe it?

RIP, KCMO Trash Scavengers  -  Aug 4, 2008
Pitch Weekly,Big trash day in KCMO has for years signaled the arrival of those with pickups or a spacious trunk -- and unafraid of some unidentifiable funk – and would

Stephen Malkmus throws out more 'Trash' dates  -  Aug 4, 2008
LiveDaily.com..."Real Emotional Trash," which hit stores in March on the Malkmus' longtime label, Matador, is the singer/songwriter's fourth album with The Jicks,

Manager jumps in trash bin to find evidence to prosecute dumpers  -  Aug 4, 2008
The Northwest Florida Daily News,A man told Bay County Sheriff's deputies he was ready to prosecute after someone dumped 10 bags of trash into his work dumpster.

In Iraq, trash delivery draws crowd  -  Aug 4, 2008
The Huntsville Times - al.com,Every week, my team and I jump into our vehicles and make a trash run. The other unit that works in this area asked us to help out with some chores,

Parish may cut trash bashes  -  Aug 4, 2008
The Daily Advertiser,The upcoming trash bash at Port Barre High School may be the last funded by the St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal District.

Gone: Red Tide, President Bush and Mail Delivery to a Trash Can  -  Aug 4, 2008
Down East,He’s plopped down $200000 for a ticket on adventurer Richard Branson’s Space Ship Two, which is scheduled to take commercial passengers for a short ride in




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