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County to pay MDEQ fine for trash in installments

Associated Press — Wed, 08 May 2013 20:26:21 +0000

CORINTH — Alcorn County will pay a civil penalty to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality for violations at local rubbish site. The Daily Corinthian reports the board of supervisors agreed to pay $15,000 in two installments. The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality cited the county for failing to prevent disposal of unauthorized waste in [...]

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DeSoto County finds money in the trash

Wally Northway — Fri, 03 May 2013 11:38:18 +0000

HERNANDO — DeSoto County has pulled some good numbers from the trash. Officials have reported 86.1 tons of rubbish collected from last week’s annual cleanup — a six-ton increase over the previous year — and a $190,000 refund to the county from disposal vendor Allied Waste Industries to correct a six-year billing error. “It shows [...]

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Air Force base wins award for recycling efforts

Associated Press — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 14:02:20 +0000

BILOXI — Keesler Air Force Base has been named an environmental hero in Mississippi for its comprehensive recycling efforts. The Sun Herald reports the Mississippi Recycling Coalition chose Keesler as the recipient of its 2012 Environmental Hero Award as the state or federal government recycler of the year. The base recycled nearly 2,700 tons of [...]

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Landfill reaching capacity; engineers recommend expansion

Associated Press — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 13:21:11 +0000

COLUMBUS — Engineers have told the city of Columbus that its landfill will run out of space in three years. The Columbus Dispatch reports engineers say the city had three options: expand the landfill, close it and open a new one or get out of the trash dumping business. Neel-Schaffer Engineering project manager Steve Cockerham [...]

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Medical sharps program surpasses one-million milestone

MBJ Staff — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 04:01:12 +0000

JACKSON — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) reports the Household Medical Sharps Collection Program has collected more than one million household medical sharps since the beginning of the program in 2010. The program was developed by MDEQ to reduce the number of household medical sharps being disposed of in household garbage and toilets. [...]

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Alderman wants pre-storm cleanup by businesses, contractors

Associated Press — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:15:10 +0000

LONG BEACH — Alderman Mark Lishen says Long Beach should require businesses and construction sites to make sure their building materials, trash and trash containers won’t become battering rams in hurricanes. He tells WLOX-TV he wants an ordinance to make sure that such things are secured or removed before hurricanes arrive on shore. Lishen’s current [...]

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Humes says Americans are the trashiest people on earth

Lynn Lofton — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:01:14 +0000

Reduce, reuse and recycle is the mantra we should all be preaching. If anyone has any doubt that we’re the trashiest people on earth, read – or just browse through – Edward Humes’ latest book. In Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair With Trash he lays out the statistics to document our wastefulness and trashiness. On [...]

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Proposed landfill divides community

Associated Press — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:20:42 +0000

MADISON COUNTY — Homeowner Sylvia Thomas calls a proposed landfill in Madison County an “environmental injustice.” George French, a consultant for local businesses, calls it an economic development necessity. The Clarion-Ledger reported the two were among about 80 residents from Madison and Hinds counties attending a public hearing at Tougaloo College sponsored by the Mississippi [...]

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Proposed landfill divides community

Associated Press — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:35:12 +0000

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Waste Pro scraps plans to build facility in Meridian

Associated Press — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:37:00 +0000

Plans to build a recycling and solid waste transfer facility at Meridian’s South Industrial Park have been scrapped. The Meridian Star reports officials of the Waste Pro company now are looking at the possibility of building the facility at Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park instead. Waste Pro, which performs residential garbage and recycling pick-up for the [...]

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