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What will happen to the dangerous wastes now that they must be kept on land? Some, like nerve gas and toxic chemicals, can be burned in special furnaces. Others, like radioactive ashes, must be stored for centuries. But as expensive and troublesome as such disposal methods may be, they are...
Relying on civic-minded citizens to resolve social problems through the lowest levels of government is, of course, sweet-sounding democratic theory. Indeed, one innovation in Nixon's New American Revolution was this goal of localizing some responsibilities. Nixon's only enacted measure to promote that shift has been general...
Garbage collection is hardly an enterprise that conjures up images of manicured executives, complex mergers and multimillion-dollar revenues. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. One reason for the rise is simply more garbage?the result of an expanding and increasingly affluent population. Further...
More and more city officials are discovering that it can cost some 15% less to hire a private garbage contractor than to run their own frequently featherbedded sanitation system. The city of Middletown, Ohio, for example, recently signed a threeyear, $1,000,000 contract with a private collection firm that...
The emphasis of at least two other programs is unmistakably on social change. The Harvard Africa Volunteers Project (HAVP) provides personnel for programs designed by African governments and organizations "engaged in furthering self-determination on the part of African peoples in the liberation and development of the African continent." Tunbridge...