Word: trashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more than three hours on school days, not past 7 p.m., up to 18 hours a week. Investigators raided one restaurant that employed 156 workers under 16 in violation of the hour restrictions. They also found 900 cases of children operating dangerous machinery -- meat slicers and paper balers, trash compactors and corn pickers...
...report also stated that during a five week time period last summer the trash collection ceased for the school and that from June to August 1988 Inspectional Services visited five times...
...recycled newsprint, and similar legislation has been proposed in at least a dozen other states. In New York the environment may be one of the few areas where Democrat Mario Cuomo proves vulnerable: activists consider him indifferent to the issue and specifically fault him for favoring trash incineration over recycling. Yet Cuomo too has proposed an environmental bond issue, mostly to acquire land in the Adirondacks. The $1.9 billion issue would be the biggest of its kind in the state's history...
...most inspiring features of the program is that individuals are volunteering their labor. From coordinator Eileen Wolmer, a purchasing agent for the Time Inc. Magazine Co., to the 33 floor captains in charge of educating their colleagues about recycling, to the cleaning crews who dispose of the trash, no one is being paid extra for helping...
...response has been terrific," Wolmer says. "The first week we found a lot of other garbage in the bins, but by the second week, everyone seemed to understand how to separate trash." Wolmer hopes to include newspapers; at the moment, however, most recycling plants in New York City cannot handle more newsprint. Magazines pose a different problem. In printing TIME, we cannot currently use stock that contains more than 7% recycled paper; anything more and our high-speed printers would shred the magazine to pieces. However, as recycling technology improves, we aim to increase that percentage...