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Coronavirus Updates
Trash sits out for collection on a Philadelphia street on Thursday. The omicron variant is sickening so many sanitation workers that waste collection in Philadelphia and other cities has been delayed or suspended.

Garbage and recyclables pile up as omicron takes its toll on sanitation workers

Jan 14, 2022
Some cities are so shorthanded they have temporarily stopped collecting things like recyclables or oversized junk to focus on the grosser, smellier stuff.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
A man wearing a protective mask looks at piled-up trash in New York City on April 24. Cities are struggling with collection as the volume of residential garbage surges during the stay-at-home era.

'Hard, Dirty Job': Cities Struggle To Clear Garbage Glut In Stay-At-Home World

Sep 21, 2020
As people stay at home, they are putting out more trash, from pizza boxes to cardboard delivery boxes. That's putting a big strain on residential garbage collectors.
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Newscast headlines

2,000 Pounds Of Trash Collected At Lake Tahoe Sledding Area

Jan 08, 2020
Volunteers joined state and federal officials to collect nearly 2,000 pounds of trash from a popular sledding area at Lake Tahoe last week in what has become an annual New Year's cleanup.
 
The Tahoe Daily Tribune reports Take Care Tahoe gathered the debris from Spooner Summ
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Goats and Soda
A trash picker carries a sack of recyclable materials she collected at the Ghazipur landfill in the east of New Delhi.

A Day's Work On Delhi's Mountain Of Trash

Jul 06, 2019
It's almost as tall as the Taj Mahal. It smolders and festers. And it's a source of income for slum dwellers nearby.
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Europe
Aegean Rebreath founder George Sarelakos (center) hands a netted bag of marine litter to volunteers on the main pier of the Greek island of Poros.

Meet Greece's Marine Trash Collectors Diving To Keep Their Sea Beautiful

Dec 02, 2018
Ocean litter is a global problem. These Greeks are acting locally to clean up the Aegean.
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Parallels
Gardivania Teixeira Lima, a single mother, works at the dump to support her seven children.

As A Massive Garbage Dump Closes In Brazil, Trash-Pickers Face An Uncertain Future

Jan 20, 2018
Authorities are closing a dump on the outskirts of Brasilia. Some 2,000 trash-pickers, who sort and sell recyclables, depend on the dump for their livelihoods — despite the risk of disease and injury.
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Parallels
A truck transports waste in Lebanon.

Environmentalists Warn Of Mediterranean Pollution From Lebanon Land Reclamation

Jan 11, 2018
A land reclamation project that uses vast amounts of garbage extends hundreds of feet into the sea. "We are fishing plastic," says a fisherman. The country has long struggled to manage its waste.
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13.7: Cosmos And Culture
Felled coconut trees littered with bottles and other garbage on the Brazil coast.

Our Choking Seas

Apr 29, 2017
When we fill up our garbage cans, we empty them into bigger ones. The biggest one, we seem to think, is our planet. We can't keep on filling it thinking it's a bottomless pit, says Marcelo Gleiser.
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