Description: 8 Lowell families must relocate because their homes are on hazardous waste site. Rep. Chester Atkins says developers should have known not to build on contaminated soil.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/26/1988
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
Description: Successful high tech sewage treatment plant in Milford is a model for Boston harbor cleanup. Rep. Joseph Connolly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/14/1988
Description: Exteriors of Mission Hill housing project. Trash strewn about. African American children playing in the parking lot and playing basketball. Steve Curwood interviews with residents including Betty Galloway, Dorothy Johnson, and a woman who doesn't want to give her name. They speak about the strike by BHA maintenance workers, and the past and current condition in the public housing, especially the amount of trash piling up. Accumulated rubbish in a vacant apartment and the chutes to the incinerators. Several takes of reporter standup. Exteriors of Exchange Building (53 State Street). Pedestrians.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/01/1977
Description: Grant Gear Co. is responsible for cleanup of PCBs dumped by previous tenant into Neponset River. Contaminated oil barrels. Route 1 in Norwood.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/19/1989
Description: New Hampshire must find solution to the accumulation of over a million tires which pose environmental hazard. Dump site full of tires.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1989
Description: North Andover Trash Dump Garage. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1982
Description: Landfill dump in New Bedford. Seagulls hover over trash. Contaminated with PCBs from industrial waste. Aerovox capacitor manufacturer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/12/1979
Description: Crushed cars and construction scrap become shredded metal, recycled by Prolerized Company, whose end-product is cited for contamination by PCBs and toxic materials.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/22/1988
Description: RESCO trash recycling plant
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1978