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Oakland helping low-income seniors with old garbage bill

2015-08-29 02:08:45| Waste Management - Topix.net

The city of Oakland has identified funding to restore a garbage discount program for low-income seniors for one year, public works officials said today. About 1,500 low-income seniors who live in single-family buildings had been receiving a discount on their garbage bills until July 1, when new trash, compost and recycling service contracts were implemented by the city and the discount program ended.

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What Chicago Could Soon Have in Common with LA and Dallas: Garbage Fees

2015-08-25 00:11:00| Waste Age

Crain's Chicago Business Chicago would become the eighth major city in the nation to charge for residential garbage collection, if Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City Council move ahead with a plan to ding homeowners. read more

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San Jose Looks at Using Garbage Haulers to Catch Car Thieves

2015-08-20 21:31:00| Waste Age

San Jose Mercury News The noisy garbage trucks that lumber down San Jose streets every week could soon pick up more than just trash -- they might also scan your license plate and all your neighbors' tags, too, in a proposed city-wide sweep for stolen vehicles that has civil libertarians crying foul. read more

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Runaway Garbage Truck Crashes Into Parked Cars as Workers Chase It

2015-08-04 20:23:00| Waste Age

ABC News Surveillance video from an Ambridge, Pennsylvania, woman's home caught the bumper-to-bumper mayhem that ensued after a garbage truck with no one behind the wheel started rolling down the street and crashing into parked cars as workers chased it. read more

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