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B-roll from Dukakis presidential run

Description: B-roll from Dukakis 88 presidential campaign. Press conference on 911. With Cuomo. On high speed train. With Irish consul. On South Boston incinerator. On teen pregnancy. In Lowell. With Teddy Kollak.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Recycling in Somerville

Description: Recycling in Somerville. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/12/1976

Mission Hill housing project

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

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

Lowell Dump

Description: Lowell Dump (not hazardous waste). .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1978

Lowell dump

Description: Seagulls fly over Lowell dump. Municipal trash truck drives through landfill. Scrap tire heap. Gulls perch on garbage. Bulldozer masses mound of debris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/15/1978

RESCO plant

Description: RESCO trash recycling plant
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/16/1978

South End pumping station

Description: South End pumping station and sewage treatment plant. Equipment inside, pipes labelled hot water, cold water, vent. Pressure gauge, motor, flow chart. Control panel with switches and alarms. Sign on exterior: Pollution Abatement and Flood Control Facility, City of Boston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/08/1978

PCBs in New Bedford

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

The Liquidator, Inc.

Description: Interview about illegal chemical waste disposal at The Liquidator, Inc. in Dorchester. Lot of Liquidator enclosed by chain link fence around trailer, shipping containers, scrap metal and tire heaps, corroded barrels. Closure posting from Boston Board of Health. “Hazardous building” sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/28/1979

Hazardous waste in Kingston

Description: Hazardous waste dump in Kingston. Barrels and drums half buried in cement oozing coagulated residue. Dented drums piled up and tumbling down slope. Stencilled letters "castor oil derivative." Bulldozer excavates pit. Interview with (?) Plymouth police chief Richard Nagle who got report of illegal dumping of 55-gallon chemical drums at several locations, source unknown.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/07/1980

East Woburn and Haverhill

Description: Exteriors of Haverhill City Hall. Environs of East Woburn neighborhood thought to be affected by hazardous waste contamination from nearby dumps. Sign on building for Housing for the Elderly. Washington Block building. Red ranch house of Anderson family. Children in summer clothes and dogs on residential street. Anderson boy on bicycle.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1981

Woburn hazardous waste

Description: Footage of a hazardous waste dump site in Woburn. Building surrounded by trees, close-up of building door with lock; pans over grassy area around building. Footage of worn down old chemical plant and train tracks running by it; "POISON" sign hanging from corrugated metal building; field and buildings behind chain link fence; freight train with lumber passes by. Piles of barrels behind chain link fence. Barbed wire fence stretches length of railway.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/17/1981

Brookline, MA Garbage

Description: Brookline, MA Garbage Collection, Trash Fees. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/30/1981

North Andover Dump

Description: North Andover Trash Dump Garage. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/11/1982

Woburn toxic waste and leukemia

Description: Kirby Perkins' report for channel 5 news on the relationship of Woburn toxic waste dumps to the elevated incidence of childhood leukemia in nearby neighborhoods. Jimmy Anderson and mother.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/14/1982

HAZARDOUS WASTE

Description: NORTH DARTMOUTH HAZARDOUS WASTE DUMP, PCBS, TRACTORS, CRANES, WORKERS. SUPERFUND CLEANUP
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/04/1984

Grace industrial waste site

Description: W.R. Grace industrial dump site in North Cambridge near Alewife. Ed Cyr speaks on behalf of residents concerned about toxic waste deposited during earlier manufacturing use.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/24/1985

INCINERATOR

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

Incinerator & Mass Fair Share

Description: Mass Fair Share opposes planned incinerator for South Bay because of resulting pollution. Proposes instead waste-to-energy conversion of trash as environmentally sound.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/02/1986