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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