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Toxic waste incineration

Description: Environmentalists criticize EPA for encouraging incineration of toxic waste. Clean Harbors.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/17/1989

Trash collection

Description: Trash collection on Beacon Hill. Haulers toss plastic garbage bags onto rubbish truck, which compacts them. Refuse barrels.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/20/1988

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

Update on incinerator siting

Description: Michael Dukakis hedges on South Bay incinerator site, undergoing environmental impact review. (Perceived as political trade with Senate president Bulger for his support of health care for all bill.)
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/27/1987

Used motor oil

Description: State announces it will enforce law for proper disposal of used motor oil. Oil being poured into engine, cases on retail display. Daniel Greenbaum, John DeVillars.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/24/1989

Walpole fights MWRA

Description: Walpole residents oppose selection of their town as site for solid waste disposal. They plan to fight the MWRA sewage landfill proposal. Paul Levy. B-roll of town center, roads, houses.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/02/1989

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

Walpole sludge disposal site

Description: Paul Levy of MWRA announces Walpole as site for sewage treatment plant. Citizens and officials complain, citing existing burden of four area prisons. Sen. Arthur Lewis, Rep. Frank Woodward
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/21/1988

Walpole trade-off: jail vs. sludge

Description: Walpole offers itself as site for state prison proposed for New Braintree, in exchange for being spared the MWRA's sludge disposal grit pit. Rep. Francis Woodward, Stephen Brewer.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/14/1989

Weston quarry for incinerator?

Description: Sen. William Bulger proposes Weston quarry for incinerator site. Community reax. trash collection.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/17/1987

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

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

Yankee Rowe nuclear plant

Description: Rowe nuclear power plant has good safety record and community relations, but no solution for waste. Radiation meter. Refueling film. Yankee Atomic Electric grounds. Rowe Town Hall, rural scene, dam.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/29/1988