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According to the complaints, the company has been collecting yard waste and garbage together instead of collecting yard waste separately and sending it to the city’s composting facility. Omaha World-Herald has more details: Waste Management is facing $72,454 in penalties for collection complaints and for not picking up yard waste separately from garbage. That’s in addition to $27,634 in fines that Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert announced last month. Stothert said Friday that the city expects Waste Management, the City of Omaha’s trash hauler, to provide timely and complete service. “We will continue monthly reviews of service-related complaints and assess additional financial penalties as allowed by our contract,” she said in a statement. Read the full story here. (aha, Neb., Fines Waste Management Over Trash, Yard Waste Complaints)
Enviro Waste, to pinpoint exactly who disposed of the Pope’s ovular reliquary.Instead, Enviro Waste hosted a public forum on the company’s website that asked the public where Pope Clement I’s bones should go. With over 650 responses, the trash company ultimately decided to donate the small relic to Westminster Catholic Cathedral.Enviro Waste’s owner, James Rubin, said in a statement, “You can imagine our amazement when we realized our clearance teams had found bone belonging to a former Pope — it’s not something you expect to see, even in our line of work. After launching our appeal, we were overjoyed to have the cathedral come forward.”A close-up of the relic, which is inscribed with the Latin words, Ex Oss S. Clementis PM, which can be translated as “from the bones of Saint. Clement” (Mazur/www.catholicnews.org.uk)Also known as Saint Clement of Rome, the 1st-century Pope is thought to have been a disciple of Saints Peter and Paul. Early Church lists place him as second or third in the list of Roman bishops after Peter. He is also considered to be the first Apostolic Father of the Church. Yet few factual details have been published about his life and death but his remains were reportedly dug up from Crimea and transferred to Italy in 868 CE.According to apocryphal acta dating from at least the 4th century CE, Clement was banished from Rome under Emperor Trajan because of his Christianity. Exiled to Greek colony of Chersonesus in the Crim... (rst Century Pope Found in London Trash)
Down by the water, he shows us its replacement: the Bio-Vac, a Frankensteined-together vacuum boat custom-made by the operations team from repurposed street-sweeping equipment. Although it was out of service for repairs during most of the past year, as of this month you’ll once again see it patrolling from Allen’s Landing down to the port, hoovering up 10 dumpsters’ worth of footballs, Styrofoam cups, and—most of all—plastic bottles each month. Two BBP staff members handle the controls, while a crew of volunteers doing court-ordered community service mans the hose as it slurps up refuse from the banks as well as bayou chokepoints where debris gathers naturally. But Robinson’s department also maintains an armory of jury-rigged solutions to go where the Bio-Vac can’t. After tearing through the off-the-shelf options, Robinson devised a handheld tool from shrimp-boat netting, chain-link fence, and a paint-roller extension pole that works great for skimming trash. And to get those pesky plastic bags tangled in trees lining the bayou? BBP created a six-pronged hook on a pole—like “something out of medieval times,” says Robinson—designed to stab, twist, grab, and pull your discarded Kroger bags from faraway limbs. Robinson says this is the most difficult part of the job, and he’s regularly caught flak about the bags’ “visual pollution” from BBP President Anne Olson—at least until recently. “She went out on the boat, and it took her like five minutes to get one bag out of a tree,” he says. “Now she knows.” “The trash is just unending,” Robinson laments. “Buffalo Bayou, White Oak Bayou, just between the two of them drain about 227 square miles of urban streets. Just one bottle, one cup from every other street that gets in the storm drain, it rains, and here it comes.” Which is why Robinson spent years working alongside grassroots activists fighting for a so-called Bottle Bill that would add a five-cent recycling bounty on the plastic bottles that make up most of what both his Bio-Vac sucks up and his nets scoop out. Currently, they grab what they can—“less than half,” he estimates—and even that ends up in a landfill; it would be too costly to sanitize and separate the waterlogged debris. The Bottle Bill died in the 2015 Texas Legislature, but Robinson still holds... (w Is Buffalo Bayou's Trash Picked Up?)
There are 140,000 tons of solid waste collected per year, and the wear and tear on the hydraulics of the trucks is inherent with the job they are doing," Wilson tells the daily. "These are $250,000 vehicles. It’s a large amount of money for a big job.”The Board of Aldermen voted to increase trash fees a year ago from $11 to $14 a month. That will bring in some $3.5 million more per year for service, with half that money intended to go to buying new trucks. That money resulted in the city getting thirteen new trucks last fiscal year, with a plan to acquire 76 in total over ten years.But so far it's just not enough. Even Mayor Lyda Krewson admits as much, telling the Post-Dispatch in April, "The city is not as clean as it could be." (Mayoral understatement alert!)According to 20th Ward Alderwoman Cara Spencer, the issue falls squarely on the shoulders of the mayor — although she's careful to acknowledge that it's not the current mayor who got us into this jam. She says the inadequate trash service had been a failure on the part of the past administration for years, but that Krewson inherited a mess that only her office can fix."We found $106 MILLION in the general budget 2 years ago for the Scottrade Center, but we didn't find a single dime to replace garbage trucks or lawn mowers which were all past their average lifespan nationwide," Spencer writes in a Facebook post. "Moving forward, the City needs to focus on providing basic city services — reliably — in every department."Citizens don't run these departments," she adds. "The Board of Aldermen doesn't run these departments. They are all under the Mayor's Office."Maybe those trash trucks should try skipping service at that office for a few weeks. If a mountain of garbage large enough to block out the sun at City Hall isn't enough to correct the issue, at least it will be appropriately representative of the city. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get the latest on the news, things to do and places to eat delivered right to your inbox. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. (. Louis' Trash Service Is a Damn Dumpster Fire)
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)
