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Berate and Barrel
Open-barrel trash burning becoming a hot issue for states |
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07 Mar 2005 |
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| Berate and Barrel Open-barrel trash burning becoming a hot issue for states Not interested in paying the $1- or $2-per-bag fee for trash disposal? Just throw it all in a barrel in your backyard and burn it. That's what thousands of upstate New Yorkers -- and millions of rural Americans -- do, and it's making some environmental activists hot under the collar. But a bill t ... |
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