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TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Between now and the end of the year, garbage and trash companies all over Tampa Bay anticipate taking in tons of holiday refuse.So to help people dispose of some of the things they don’t want, Waste Management in Tampa offers these tips to help you separate the holiday good stuff from the junk.Christmas lights are considered electronic waste, so you do not want to put them in your curbside recycling bin. You should contact your city or county to find out where you can dispose of electronics.If you are going to dispose of your Christmas tree at your curb, it’s important that you remove all of the decorations, from the lights to the tinsel.One thing not to recycle is ribbons and bows and some types of wrapping paper because they can tangle and will more than likely jam waste management machines.Waste Management Recycle Tampa’s recycling educator Melissa Baldwin says, “When in doubt throw it out.”She also says you should look closely at what items are made of, because... (WFLA)
TAMPA (FOX 13) - Tossing old furniture, tires or trash on the side of the roadway is not only an eyesore, it's a crime. The city of Tampa is cracking down on illegal dumping through an Environmental Crime Unit.A resident recorded cellphone video of two men casually dumping trash and furniture from a black Ford pickup truck on the side of an east Tampa residential street. The resident shared the video with the city."It's two guys that don't have any respect for a neighborhood. They just come in, and they're just dumping whatever they can," said Sal Ruggiero, manager of Tampa Code Enforcement.According to Ruggiero, city officials see the worst cases of illegal dumping in the Sulphur Springs and Grant Park neighborhoods.The problem has worsened since Hurricane Irma, when many residents were looking to get rid of water-damaged furniture and non-vegetative storm debris."A lot of that is people hiring people off of Craigslist to pick up your debris, and a lot of times, they're not bringing i... (FOX 13 News, Tampa Bay)
HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – An evening trash fire sent thick, black smoke across Tampa Thursday evening.Hillsborough County Fire Rescue 911 received a call of a reported trash fire at Alex Metal Recycling on Raleigh Street in Tampa.When firefighters arrived, they reported a large trash pile with hundreds of tires in it was burning.Firefighters found the nearest hydrant and started aerial firefighting operations.It took firefighters approximately three hours to get the fire under control.No one was injured in the fire.The cause has been determined to be an accidental ignition from a cutting torch being used to cut recyclable metal.WHAT OTHERS ARE CLICKING ON RIGHT NOW:Share this:Related PostsAdvertisement... (WFLA)
Hartsfield-Jackson airport, the world’s busiest in terms of passenger traffic, where gusts up to 64 mph were reported.In Florida, the port of Tampa reopened Tuesday afternoon to big ships, which will allow fuel tankers to make much-needed deliveries.A?n army of work crews was mobilized to try to restore electricity, which was cut for nearly three-quarters of Florida’s homes and businesses, crippling commercial activity and hampering recovery efforts.Florida’s electricity cutoffs affected 15 million people, Christopher Krebs, an assistant secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, said at a briefing in Washington on Tuesday — a figure extrapolated from utilities’ reports that nearly 6 million customers had lost power, with each account representing more than one person. Other estimates were lower, in the neighborhood of 10 million affected — still half the state’s population — and the numbers were fluctuating as some repairs were carried out more quickly than others. Utility crews were working around the clock, officials said, including an additional 30,000 workers from out of state, the governor told reporters.Some progress was being reported, though. Florida Power and Light said it hoped to have service restored to many of its customers on the Atlantic Coast in the next five days, although damage was worse — and will take longer to fix — on the Gulf of Mexico side.In South Carolina, utility officials reported progress in halving the number of outages from a peak of about 250,000 customers affected. But some of those gains were wiped out by fresh power cuts in the state and elsewhere as the remains of the storm moved north.In signs of nascent normality, curfews were being lifted in storm-stricken Florida cities and cruise-ship passengers were disembarking after voyages extended by the storm.“We’ve got a lot of work to do, but everybody’s going to come together and get this state rebuilt,” Scott, the governor, said.The peninsula’s major population centers on the Gulf and Atlantic coasts, including Miami in the east and Tampa-St. Petersburg in the west, suffered considerably less damage than feared as the storm’s track veered away from them.But parts of the Keys, a fragile archipelago linked to the mainland by a single roadway and 42 bridges, faced a longer road to recovery.The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, William B. “Brock” Long, said Tuesday that by initial estimates, a quarter of the homes in the Keys were destroyed and an additional 60% damaged. In all, “basically every house in the Keys was impacted,” he said.One of those who chose to ride out the hurricane in Key West was 90-year-old Shirley Ross Block. Speaking by phone, she recounted her fears during the storm that roofs might fly off — including hers — but they held, she said.Block initially thought the evacuation order wasn’t necessary, but changed her mind when confronted with the aftermath: power outage, rationed running water and dwindling propane for generators. If everyone had stayed, she said, “there would be all the more people in dire straits now.”img itemprop="image" data-baseurl="http://www... (Los Angeles Times)
TAMPA - "They just got a lot of weight to them,” said Joe Frisco of Wellswood. Joe Frisco has been cleaning up his yard for a week. "Oak trees once the ground is saturated, they can't hold their own weight up,” he said. Mature oak trees line his street in Wellswood and pretty much every house is waiting for debris trucks. "Naturally, the neighborhood will look nicer when they're all picked up,” said Frisco. Tampa's hardest hit neighborhoods including Wellswood will see what's called "knuckleboom" trucks first. East Tampa and New Tampa are also on the priority list. Bayshore Beautiful's road construction project means it's another neighborhood getting first dibs on debris pickup. "I've been told by the contractors that there's not enough of those kind of trucks in the United States of America to pick up Florida the way it needs to be picked up so we're doing the best we can,” said Brad Baird, Tampa Public Works Admin... (ABC Action News)
