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Brookline cutbacks

Description: What cutbacks has Proposition 2 1/2 wrought in Brookline? Residents wonder if town services can bear reduced revenues. Police station, cruiser, fire engine,dump, kids in swimming pool, Coolidge Corner.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/18/1988

Central Artery dirt obstacle

Description: Public works commissioner Jane Garvey proposes to dump Central Artery dirt on Spectacle Island. EPA's Julie Belaga says that violates Clean Water Act. Suburban landfills are possible alternative.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/01/1990

Central Artery obstacle

Description: State proposes to add dirt from Central Artery project to Spectacle Island landfill. EPA opposes dumping in harbor. Julie Belaga, Jane Garvey. Moving shot of Boston harbor with hazy skyline. Bulldozer
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/26/1990

Cleaning up autumn leaves

Description: Annual autumnal ritual of leaf removal in Brookline, where raking into curbside piles and burning are illegal. Tons of leaves taken to leaf dump. landfill.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/09/1987

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

Eco-fuel

Description: Solid waste treatment facility in East Bridgewater. Front-end loader moves municipal trash. Large and metallic items separated from garbage. Rest is sorted, shredded, moved on conveyor belt to rotating drum for conversion to “eco-fuel.” Oversize pieces successively screened and reduced. Salvaged metal is sold as scrap. Plant operator describes the whole recycling process. Sand and glass removed to go to landfill. Control room with switches, monitors, gauges, failure lights. tape 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1977

Eco-fuel

Description: Explanation of “eco-fuel” process from control room of East Bridgewater trash facility. End product in barrel is brown granular powder that does not absorb water. Brockton garbage truck empties load onto receiving area heaped high with raw materials. Eco II tank truck. Interview with Kathy about recycling garbage to generate electricity. Process produces a clean burning, cheaper alternative to imported oil. Remainder is buried as landfill. Local towns use this method to alleviate waste disposal burden. tape 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/21/1977

Fair Share & trash disposal policy

Description: Mass Fair Share complains to governor about waste disposal policy - current methods (landfill, incineration) environmentally hazardous. Asks for resource recovery and composting. Michael Dukakis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/16/1987

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

Julie Belaga and Walpole sludge site

Description: Walpole residents visit Boston office of EPA to appeal to administrator Julie Belaga to halt sludge landfill site in their town.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1990