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...declared a mandatory recycling plan. Most of the garbage landfills in the state are full and have closed. The remaining ones are reaching their capacity and have limited the types and quantity of garbage they'll take. Municipalities now are faced with the messy task of trying to redefine "trash" as opposed to "garbage" as opposed to "recyclable materials" under the new waste ordinances. Suburbia is in an uproar...
...while petty short-sightedness dampened or destroyed all the good ideas, somebody came up with a really good idea. "Hey, let's dump it in the ocean! Yeah, that's it!" Under cover of night, garbage barges loaded with tons of trash began to sneak a couple of miles out to sea and drop their loads right into the ocean. It's like a colossal toilet. Except it doesn't flush. Some of it sinks down to the bottom--where only fish are, anyway--but a whole lot of it doesn't. It just floats around...
Nobody seems to mind, or much notice, run-of-the-scandal trash such as the movie Stripper Fanne Fox made, Posse from Heaven, after she became notorious in 1974 by getting caught at the Tidal Basin with Congressman Wilbur Mills; or The Washington Fringe Benefit, the book put out by nontyping Secretary Elizabeth Ray after the whoop-de-do over her 1976 affair with Ohio Representative Wayne Hays...
...Along the East Coast we've had major problems with all kinds of trash and garbage slicks, plastic slicks, green tides, red tides, black tides, beach closings. You name it, we've had it along the East Coast because we've treated the ocean in many instances like a repository of last resort," Hughes said...
Spectacle is one of 12 locations being considered for a plant that would burn or compost sludge from Boston area sewage. The "island" is actually a mound of trash and dirt formed more than 50 years ago by city garbage dumping...