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Last week he even saw a sofa perched on the median. "It’s just a dumping ground," Episcopo said. Littering and illegal dumping are a growing problem along Delaware's main roads, state officials say. Law enforcement is undermanned in its battle against the trash filling up the shoulder of Delaware roads. "We do have some problems out there," said Pat Emory, director of the Delaware Natural Resources and Environmental Control's Office of Community Services. "On our highways it’s pretty evident what is going on." Most efforts to curtail littering and illegal dumping, which occurs when someone offloads large items like full trash bags or tires on public or private property, are usurped by a lack of staffing and the inherent difficulty of spotting the crime. Any law enforcement official in the state has the ability to enforce littering and dumping laws. The state takes what C.R. McLeod, the Delaware Department of Transportation director of community relations, describes as a multiagency approach to litter policing. But the reality is those officers are already overworked and have more pressing issues dealing with public safety to focus on. There is also how these violations are committed. Most times, it is merely people who quickly toss something out a car window while driving down the highway. The act is so brief that it's difficult to spot and even more difficult to track down violators. The DNREC Natural Resources Police Environmental Crimes Unit has 10 employees that respond to public reports and monitor surveillance footage, but they also take care of hazardous waste and chemicals, work with police on meth labs, and enforce solid waste, wastewater and wetland code violations, amon... (spite fines for littering, illegal dumping, trash piles up in some parts of Delaware)
Cooke said.Bannon could not immediately be reached for comment. This incident is one of the latest in a string of public confrontations of current and former administration officials. In June, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was confronted by protesters in a Mexican restaurant with chants of "shame" and "end family separation." Also in June, the owner of the Red Hen restaurant refused to serve White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.Prior to his resignation last week, former EPA Chief Scott Pruitt was confronted by a teacher who told him he should "resign before your scandals push you out."And on Monday, the Washington Post reported that senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller threw out $80 worth of sushi in disgust after a being heckled by a bartender while picking up takeout in his DC neighborhood.Lawmakers who work closely with the President have also been targeted for public scorn. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was chased from a Kentucky restaurant by protesters on Saturday.TM & © 2018 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved. (eve Bannon called 'piece of trash' by heckler at bookstore)
American manufacturers who recycled the materials into new products. How surprised and confused was I when earlier this spring the news media announced that manufacturers in China were no longer willing to take most of the plastic garbage the citizens of the Rogue Valley were sending them!As luck would have it, Jackson County has two hauling companies: one for Medford and Phoenix, and one serving Ashland and Talent. Because Recology negotiates its own set of contracts as to where recyclables are reprocessed, Ashlanders are not being asked to make the same drastic changes to their recycling patterns as the residents of Phoenix and Medford. The woman responsible for managing these contracts is Recology Waste Zero Specialist Jamie Rosenthal.Jamie grew up in Coos Bay, where she learned early on to be responsible about waste from a father who spent weekends collecting trash left behind by beachcombers. Ironically, her father was employed by a paper mill, so Jamie grew up seeing all sides of the impassioned battle between environmentalists and Oregon’s timber industry. In the cross-fire, her father’s paper mill was shuttered, causing her family serious economic hardship. When Southern Oregon University offered Jamie a generous scholarship, she moved to Ashland in 1997.Wanting to put her degree in communications to good purp... (steNot: Recycling center again accepting soft plastic for recycling)
Police are bracing for more illegal sparks to fly though the weekend, and are not immediately tracking the number of reports received. San Jose Fire Department launched a new tool this year for people to report when they see illegal fireworks going off. Officials say it will be at least two weeks before they compile all the data from that system. The “morning after” in #SanJose. Streets littered with spent illegal fireworks as warnings about $400+ fines went ignored in this east side neighborhood. “People set up chairs” to watch. “It was just like Great America,” said one resident. pic.twitter.com/0q8g5OyoQR— @Rob Fladeboe kron4 (@KRON4RFladeboe) July 5, 2018 WHAT OTHERS ARE CLICKING ON: >>MORE STORIES ... (n Jose neighborhood trashed after illegal fireworks show)
Just asking because a lot of them need new trees, better and more frequent upkeep, and a little refreshing. We also have lots of beautiful wide medians in this city that, more often than not, look very bad, bare and uninviting. Jim Couch: Yes, the parks department is under me. Maintaining parks and medians is a challenge. We have been successful in other areas in partnering with OKC Beautiful and organizations to maintain areas connected to these areas. We have medians adopted by businesses. We had some challenges this spring with some of our third-party contractors. We know we are behind and we are trying to catch up. Steve Lackmeyer: Is there an opportunity for areas like Quail Springs and Northwest Highway and Meridian Avenue to create a business improvement district like the one downtown to go the extra mile in improving their areas' appearance? Jim Couch: It could be. We've been working with property owners around Meridian to explore options out there. We've been working with the South OKC Chamber to improve the area around I-240. And the best example is the Western Avenue district that is already doing this and more. We have a 621-square-mile city. We have limited resources to maintain it all. The best maintained areas are where businesses and neighborhoods take interest and supplement our efforts. Q: Bill (Crum) had a story in the paper about the OKC Boathouse Foundation being reimbursed about $760,000 for expenses incurred at the whitewater rafting course. When MAPS 3 was passed 2009, there was a lot of speculation about how operating costs were going to be covered for multiple projects, including the streetcar, park, convention center and the rapids course. Is this a cause for concern? Jim Couch: Not much has changed from 2009. We anticipated the only two projects that will impact the general fund will be the streetcar and the park. By partnering with the Myriad Gardens Foundation, we've minimized the impact the Scissortail Park will have on our operating budget. The streetcar is about where we thought it will be. It was $3 million-plus when we first looked at it, and now it is $3.9 million. (C Central Chat: Oklahoma City manager addresses city's trash and treasure)
