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  • July 2008

    • Italy Calls In Shrinks for Garbage Crisis

      newser  |  Der Spiegel  |  Jul 3, 08 8:50 PM CDT

      Italy Calls In Shrinks for Garbage Crisis

      Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has a “final solution" to Naples' trash problem—and it includes psychologists, Der Spiegel reports. Naples, whose overflowing landfills have led to intermittently trash-choked streets for years, will soon be invaded by an army of volunteers, including a group of psychologists trained in counseling disaster survivors. Berlusconi has also pledged to clean up the garbage. More »

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      Italy  • Silvio Berlusconi  • garbage  • Naples  • landfill  • psychologist

  • June 2008

    • Britons: New Trash Laws Are Rubbish

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

      Britons: New Trash Laws Are Rubbish

      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

    • 'Super' Mafia Witness Gunned Down in Naples

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Jun 3, 08 2:18 AM CDT

      'Super' Mafia Witness Gunned Down in Naples

      The boss of a garbage disposal firm with Mafia links who had turned informant was gunned down in a bar near Naples yesterday, the Guardian reports. The murdered man had been helping police target gangs that control waste disposal in the city, currently gripped by a garbage crisis. He had been due to testify this week against an accused gangster who's a member of Italy's ruling party. More »

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      Italy  • organized crime  • Silvio Berlusconi  • Mafia  • garbage  • Naples  • witness

  • May 2008

    • Trash Fires Blaze Across Naples

      newser  |  AFP  |  May 19, 08 11:53 AM CDT

      Trash Fires Blaze Across Naples

      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

    • Naples' Trash Tops Berlusconi's To-Do List

      newser  |  BBC  |  Apr 15, 08 4:52 PM CDT

      Naples' Trash Tops Berlusconi's To-Do List

      Silvio Berlusconi said today his first task as Italy's prime minister will be to clean up garbage-strewn Naples, the BBC reports. After a clear victory for his center-right coalition in this week's elections, the 71-year-old media tycoon promised to spend three days a week in the city and to "leave only when I'm sure I've found a definitive solution" to the trash clogging its streets. More »

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      Italy  • Silvio Berlusconi  • garbage  • Naples  • Northern League

  • March 2008

    • Prized Cheese in Italy at Risk

      newser  |  New York Times  |  Mar 27, 08 7:03 PM CDT

      Prized Cheese in Italy at Risk

      More consumers are turning up their noses at Italy’s prized buffalo mozzarella, and not over its smell, the New York Times reports. Toxins have been found in samples of the delicacy, likely caused by illegal dumping of garbage around Naples. Sales are down 40%, and farmers and restaurateurs fear a panic despite that fact that best cheese region appears unaffected. More »

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      Italy  • garbage  • Naples  • cuisine  • contaminated food  • mozzarella  • imported food  • dioxin

    • Got Junk? Call These Guys

      newser  |  NPR  |  Mar 26, 08 12:56 PM CDT

      Got Junk? Call These Guys

      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

    • Sea of Plastic Dooms Oceans, Expert Says

      newser  |  CNET  |  Mar 5, 08 4:16 PM CST

      Sea of Plastic Dooms Oceans, Expert Says

      A noted oceanographer says the aquatic pollution in the Pacific Ocean is too significant to be cleaned up. “We are damned to a future of pollution by plastic,” Charles Moore said after showing that the amount of Pacific plastic has ballooned fivefold in the last 10 years. A garbage patch twice the size of Texas is old news, but Moore found a “highway” that makes the polluted area as large as Africa. More »

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      global warming  • pollution  • recycling  • ocean  • plastic  • garbage  • Pacific Ocean  • green revolution

  • February 2008

    • Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

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

      Plasma May Zap City's Garbage Crisis

      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

  • July 2007

    • Astronaut Takes Out the Trash, Into Space

      newser  |  Reuters  |  Jul 23, 07 4:46 PM CDT

      Astronaut Takes Out the Trash, Into Space

      A NASA astronaut hurled two large pieces of space junk—a 1,400-pound reservoir filled with ammonia and a 212-pound piece of video equipment—off the International Space Station and into the Earth's orbit today. NASA does not approve of space littering, Reuters reports, but the agency had no other option. More »

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      NASA  • International Space Station  • space  • astronauts  • space shuttle  • ocean  • garbage  • atmosphere

    • Ten Worst Jobs in Science

      newser  |  Popular Science  |  Jul 4, 07 11:47 AM CDT

      Ten Worst Jobs in Science

      Hazmat diver: They swim in sewage, toxic spills and other undesirable liquid environments. Oceanographer: With the coral reefs dying, pollutants rising, and overfishing it's just one long stream of bad news. Elephant vasectomist: With a testicle a foot in diameter, it isn't exactly a walk in the wildlife preserve. Garbologist: These scientists take dumpster diving to a whole new level. Coursework carcass preparer: Someone has to get those fetal pigs ready for the classroom. More »

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      list  • science  • work  • employment  • garbage

  • May 2007

    • Naples Reeks as Garbage Dumps, Landfills Close

      newser  |  New York Times  |  May 31, 07 6:31 AM CDT

      Naples Reeks as Garbage Dumps, Landfills Close

      Mounds of smelly garbage are piling up in the streets of Naples, as a shortage of places to dump it has reached a crisis: the last landfill in Naples closed Saturday. Italian President Giorgio Napolitano is pleading with politicians and citizens to save the the country's image, the Times reports. More »

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      Italy  • garbage  • trash  • Naples  • Giorgio Napolitano  • landfill

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