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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 some items should not be recycled.“Some packaging is co-mingling that means it has paper and p... (WFLA)
Transportation decides to do.When and where can I get gas?There is enough gas coming into the state right now thanks to fuel shipments Port Tampa Bay and other ports around the state are receiving, according to AAA spokesperson Josh Carrasco. The issue now is distribution. Fuel trucks are working to haul gas around the state. Carrasco said consumers should see a difference in a few days. There are websites and apps that can help you locate gas stations that are open. Try gasbuddy.com/app.When will the price of gas come down?Blame that on the other hurricane, Harvey. Refineries in Texas and Louisiana still aren't fully up and running because of that storm. Once they're going again, probably in the next few weeks, then prices are expected to drop in a few weeks, AAA's Josh Carrasco said.CLEANUPI piled up all the debris in my yard out by the curb, but nobody has come to get it yet. Why are they taking so long?Be patient. Work crews from local government are going around to pick up the downed limbs and so forth, but there is quite a lot of it to pick up and so it's going to take a while. If you can't wait, then you or someone you hire can haul it all to a county-run brush site. Check your county's website for locations.I found a tree service guy to look at the tree that fell on my house, but he wants thousands of dollars for the work. I think he's overcharging me. Can he do that?If you think someone is trying to gouge you on post-hurricane services, call the state Attorney General's Office at 1-866-9-NO-SCAM. Price-gouging is illegal in Florida.MAIL SERVICEI haven't gotten any mail for days. Whatever happened to "neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet"?The U.S. Postal Service believes its letter carriers should not risk their lives for no good reason, so it shut down service throughout most of Florida ahead of Irma. As of Wednesday, most of the state's postal routes were going back into service, except for down in the Keys.SCHOOLSMy kid is out of school all week. Will there be make-up days?Yes, but none of the Tampa Bay school systems have yet figured out when that will be. Stay tuned.CLAIMSI'm not sure I have an insurance claim. Should I file one anyway?Yes, according to the head of one of Florida's largest insurers. "File a claim. It won't count against you," Security First Insurance founder and president Locke Burt told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Even if a claim is fairly minor — a broken window, for instance — and won't exceed a policyholder's annual hurricane deductible, you should still report that damage, Burt said. Why? Because we're not to the end of the hurricane season yet. If there's another hurricane this year, then together those claims might top your deductible and then you could be reimbursed.I probably need a lawyer to deal with all the stuff that happened to me, but there's no way I can afford one. Am I out of luck?No. (Tampabay.com)
New Jersey countyAt one point in the segment, the comic uses a clip from "The Atomic Sailors," a 2013 special report by The Tampa Bay Times, to illustrate just how recklessly nuclear waste has been handled by the U.S. government in the past. He plays a clip of Robert Birsic, a retired sailor, describing the extent of radioactive dumping by the U.S. Navy off of the Jersey shore in the 1940's and 1950's."It's funny that the ocean don't glow out there outside of Red Bank, New Jersey, really," Birsic says. "Because we dumped a lot of barrels out there."Oliver hammers the point home with a timely punchline about a reality show that we're all too familiar with."We didn't just dump barrels of radioactive waste in the ocean, we did it off the coast of New Jersey," Oliver said. "That is so horrifying, I'm surprised that 'Jersey Shore' was the title of a light-hearted MTV series and not the name of a harrowing documentary."Other instances of nuclear dumping off the coast of New Jersey have been reported. In 1981, the Washington Post published the claims of a retired Navy pilot who said that he'd flown missions to drop nuclear waste into the ocean 100 miles southeast of Atlantic City. In the story, the Navy denied knowledge of the mission.Watch the full segment from "Last Week Tonight" below. The New Jersey parts start at the three-and-half-minute lesson.Michael Sol Warren may be reached at mwarren@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @MSolDub. Find NJ.com on Facebook. (NJ.com)
