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Randy Santarelli stood at the edge of the rocky, weed-strewn pit in Jessup, pointing to where roads were built to haul away thousands of pounds of illegally dumped garbage."This pit was the big one," said Mr. Santarelli, a member of Jessup Borough Counc

Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column bored with television. What's wrong with us? The programming is intended to deliver what the audience most craves. But we find ourselves madly flipping through channels through nothing but garbage. Animal Planet, for example, was running nothing but "Pit Boss" from Saturday afternoon until the wee hours of Sunday morning ...

Waste-to-energy will be part of Metro Vancouver's new solid waste plan. After a lengthy debate last Friday, the regional district's board of directors voted in favour of considering garbage incineration with a facility that could be located either in the region or outside.

SAVANNA – In a brief meeting on August 19, 2010 at the West Carroll High School in Savanna, the West Carroll School Board took a look at the 2010/2011 tentative annual budget, as well as awarding snow removal bids for the district’s new year and putting out for bid garbage/waste disposal services.

Wearing jute rags and a hood, he walked around Chowpatty collecting garbage. His band of followers, carrying huge garbage bags, accompanied him on every expedition. Captain Kachra and his army, all students of Wilson College, conducted a week-long cleanliness campaign as part of their media planning project.

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NEW YORK - Management and workers at the nation's biggest cooperative housing complex have reached a tentative contract agreement. Three weeks ago, New York City health officials declared an emergency because uncollected garbage was piling up at the 320-acre Co-Op City complex in the Bronx.

Let me admit something to you: I cheered for the Lakers to win the Finals. It started during Game Two of the series when Boston walked into the Staples Center and slapped the home team around. That was the night Ray Allen made eight three-pointers, Rajon Rondo had a triple double, and it became clear to me that hating the Lakers is total garbage. Maybe I got too close. I’m spending my summer ...

There are no sets in This Movie Is Broken, a film made in Toronto and shot at actual locations during the garbage strike last summer and at Broken Social Scene’s attendance-record-setting Harbourfront show. “We wanted to shoot the city for what it was,” says Don McKellar, who produced a 20-page script for the concert-film hybrid

Dreams, academic performance and a trash bag full of memories were at the forefront of minds at the Hollis/Brookline class of 2010 graduation ceremony Saturday. The trash bag was courtesy of class salutatorian Emily Davis who recalled hauling around a big black garbage bag when she was in preschool, a repository of special objects, including toiletries her dad brought home from business trips ...

Against Me!'s White Crosses is yet another move away from their folk-punk origins and a step towards more radio-friendly punk rock. Tom Gabel and company worked with Butch Vig (Nirvana, Garbage) again on the follow-up to 2007's New Wave , and the results are once again mixed.