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...latest and biggest of a two-week rash of trash fires in Harvard Square broke out in a 17 Dunster St. dumpster last Saturday night, September 29, singeing nearby trees but causing no major damage, the fire department said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rashof Dumpster Fires Sweeps Harvard Square | 10/5/1984 | See Source »

...started our rounds by walking down a long, narrow alley that led to the dumpster behind a cookie shop, Joseph hoisted himself so he could see over the receptacle's rim. "Looks like they didn't throw anything out today," he said. "You've got more guts than I have," he added admiringly as I clambered into the dumpster to make sure...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Out on His Own | 3/1/1984 | See Source »

Five minutes after noon the scroungers have established territorial piles of gleanings. Inside a dumpster filled with old electronics (40? per lb.), three men are crawling around stripping out switches, relays and diodes. In the steel pile (7? per lb.), a swarm is hauling off a transformer cabinet, a 16-in. pipe and a chunk of plate steel left in fanciful cookie-cutter shapes by a plasma-arc cutter. Two men are momentarily baffled by a machined piece. "I don't know what they could have meant to do with this," says one. "It could have been a detector...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Mexico: High-Tech Junkyard | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

Late last night the most recent attempt at such infantile humor--"What Is Not to Be Done"--was found in a dumpster behind the Hong Kong Chinese restaurant under a pile of chicken wings. The following is exerpted from that publication's not the lecture column...

Author: By Gideon Gil and Jay Yeager, S | Title: There Aren't No Lectures To Be Heard | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

Harvard presently pays $8 per ton to dispose its waste and can receive $5 per ton for office grade paper waste that is recycled. Once an estimated $2,300 is paid. for separate wastebasket containers and the installation of a compacter-dumpster, the program should not cost Harvard more than it is presently spending for waste disposal, Merrill said...

Author: By R. W. Palmer, | Title: B&G Paper Recycling Project Starts in Offices Next Semester | 10/2/1973 | See Source »

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