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Trash strike at BU

Description: Buildings and grounds workers strike at Boston University. AFL-CIO Local 254 picket signs. Trash has accumulated all over campus. Overflowing waste barrels, litter strewn on walkways. Custodial staff emerges from union meeting. Graffiti “Support the strike” and “No scabs.” Food debris spread on lawn. Garbage spilling out of dumpster. Trash bags piled around BFI receptacle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/08/1978

INCINERATOR

Description: OLD BOSTON INCINERATOR PLANT
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/30/1985

South Bay incinerator site

Description: History of Boston incinerator siting issue. Controversy erupts when Senate president William Bulger makes known his opposition to South Bay location. Ray Flynn, Ray Dooley, Gov. Michael Dukakis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1987

Bulger & Flynn on incinerator site

Description: Ray Flynn is confronted by William Bulger at press conference on controversial South Bay site for proposed incinerator.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/17/1987

Incinerator site controversy

Description: Bulger and Flynn correspond coolly on incinerator site. Citizens advisory committee on solid waste disposal arrive at no consensus either.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1987

Medical trash on beaches

Description: Syringe on beach, other washed up medical refuse collected in plastic. Bins for infectious hospital waste. Supply room and operating room at BCH. trash
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1988

Septage haulers protest

Description: Septage haulers picket and drive their pump trucks around State House to protest lack of approved disposal sites to treat sewage. Daniel Greenbaum, DEQE commissioner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/27/1988

Recycling in Boston

Description: Boston Food Co-op opens a recycling center to handle newspapers, and eventually glass. Stacks of old newspapers.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/17/1988

Walpole protests landfill

Description: Walpole residents protest in front of State House against siting grit landfill in their town. Meanwhile at board meeting, MWRA votes to approve the site. Sewage disposal.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1989

Recycling in Boston

Description: Ray Flynn inaugurates trash recycling in Boston by dumping bags of newspapers into collection truck. Others toss bottles. Recycling bins lined up along sidewalk in Jamaica Plain.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/12/1990