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  • October 2008

    • Backstage Tour Lays Bare Springer Nation

      Chicago Tribune  |  Oct 1, 08 5:19 PM CDT

      Backstage Tour Lays Bare Springer Nation

      (Newser) - A backstage tour of The Jerry Springer Show reveals "fundamental truths about the human condition," Kevin Pang writes in the Chicago Tribune . Philanderers and home-wreckers vetted by the show receive star treatment for a day, and insist their tales are true—for the most part. It's "all legit," one said, after producers coached him on how to tell his story. More »

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      television  • talk show  • trash  • television personality  • Jerry Springer  • talk-show host

  • June 2008

    • Britons: New Trash Laws Are Rubbish

      New York Times  |  Jun 27, 08 4:32 AM CDT

      Britons: New Trash Laws Are Rubbish

      (Newser) - In the midst of a garbage overload, the UK is cracking down on trash with strict new rules, sparking a backlash among Britons, the New York Times reports. Many areas now pick up trash only biweekly, and accept only regulation amounts. Some reject recycling bins tainted with garbage. In response, some Britons are yelling at trash collectors, stealing neighbors’ bins—and burning their rubbish. More »

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      Great Britain  • environment  • recycling  • garbage  • trash

  • May 2008

    • Trash Fires Blaze Across Naples

      AFP  |  May 19, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      Trash Fires Blaze Across Naples

      (Newser) - The prolonged garbage impasse in Naples has taken a new turn as angry residents began setting fire to thousands of tons of waste littering city streets. Firefighters were at work all night battling at least 90 burns across the city, AFP reports. “Every six to seven minutes, one of our emergency vehicles sets off with its sirens screaming,” said a local commander; new Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is set to unveil new measures to deal with the crisis Wednesday. More »

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      Italy  • fire  • garbage  • trash  • Naples

  • April 2008

    • Trash Fouls World's Beaches

      Associated Press  |  Apr 15, 08 8:27 PM CDT

      Trash Fouls World's Beaches

      (Newser) - One day of beach cleanup last year netted 6 million pounds of trash worldwide, an environmental group says. Volunteers in 76 countries collected an average of 182 pounds per mile of beach; the US weighed in at 390 pounds per mile, the AP reports. "We're the bad guys," said the head of the Ocean Conservancy. "Trash doesn't fall from the sky." More »

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      environment  • pollution  • beach  • trash  • littering  • Ocean Conservancy

  • March 2008

    • Got Junk? Call These Guys

      NPR  |  Mar 26, 08 12:56 PM CDT

      Got Junk? Call These Guys

      (Newser) - A shed full of roller skates, 400 wedding dresses, 18,000 sardine cans, a diffused bomb—1-800-GOT-JUNK? hauls away more than just trash in its custom-built dump trucks. The largest junk-hauling company in North America turned clutter into revenues of $150 million this year, says NPR, while professionalizing the industry and banishing the stereotypical image of a sloppy junk hauler in baggy pants. More »

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      innovation  • garbage  • trash  • clutter

  • February 2008

    • Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

      Canada.com  |  Feb 17, 08 6:48 PM CST

      Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

      (Newser) - Vancouver may have a fix for its garbage overflow crisis: Burn the trash into a gas that makes electricity. A Canadian company called Plasco Energy Group has proposed a plant that zaps waste into ionized gas, or plasma; about a fifth of it would run the plant and the rest could be sold off. A few plasma plants by other companies have reportedly tanked, but the Vancouver Sun 's Harvey Enchin urges the city to try this one. More »

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      energy  • garbage  • trash  • Vancouver  • waste  • landfill

  • January 2008

    • Mountain of Litter Spoiling Everest Majesty

      Independent (UK)  |  Jan 12, 08 6:20 PM CST

      Mountain of Litter Spoiling Everest Majesty

      (Newser) - Mount Everest remains an irresistable lure for hundreds of climbers every year—and it shows in a bad way. In the wake of Edmund Hillary's death, the Independent surveys the landscape of the world's highest mountain and finds it littered with climbers' trash. It's a matter of logistics, experts say. It's simply not easy to schlep home empty oxygen containers and the like from 29,000 feet. More »

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      pollution  • trash  • Mount Everest  • Edmund Hillary  • climbing

    • Trash Overwhelms Naples

      Reuters  |  Jan 7, 08 2:40 PM CST

      Trash Overwhelms Naples

      (Newser) - The Italian army has been brought in to clear away some of the mountains of trash blanketing the area around Naples. The region's garbage crisis, which has festered for years, reached crisis proportions when all waste-collection stopped before Christmas. Meanwhile, protesters are trying, in occasionally violent clashes, to stop the reopening of a dump closed in 1996, Reuters reports. More »

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      Italy  • trash  • Naples

  • September 2007

    • One Man’s Garbage Is Another's Thanksgiving

      Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 11, 07 6:11 PM CDT

      One Man’s Garbage Is Another's Thanksgiving

      (Newser) - Folks looking for food in a back alley these days might be “Freegans” - that’s “free” plus “vegan” - who are “opting out of capitalism in any way that we can,” one says. Their New York trash tours have already trained 14,000 people, all trying to dig out the routine waste of cast-off food. “We’re doing something that is really socially unacceptable,” says Madeline Nelson, an ex-Barnes and Noble exec. More »

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      New York City  • food  • Thanksgiving  • lifestyle  • trash  • vegan

  • May 2007

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