Town challenges state’s sand transfer plant plan — When it comes to the sand transfer plant in Manalapan, it might as well be a four-letter word. Many in town blame the plant at the Boynton Inlet for depleting the town’s beaches as it sends sand sout
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By Mary Hladky
City Council members have rejected outsourcing residential garbage collection and recycling services.
City staff explored the option of contracting with Waste Pro because Boca Raton faces rising costs to provide the services, including
By Steve Plunkett
Waste Management’s familiar green trucks will disappear from town streets in six months unless the garbage-hauling giant and Gulf Stream officials can renew a contract at a “comfortable” rate.
Town Manager Greg Dunham, who in July p
Brent Robinson picks up a can near a shopping cart he found filled with trash at Lake Wyman.
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By April W. Klimley
Bruce Hurley discovered something when he organized a cleanup day for the shore along Lake Wyman: Envir
Come January, Sherwood Park residents will no longer have the choice of rear/side yard garbage pickup. While they’re losing a service option, they’re gaining an advantage.
“They’ll have their rates lowered,” said City Manager
The collection increase for residential and commercial users will be subject of an Oct.
Two out of three coastal Delray Beach residents would rather switch — to curbside garbage pickup, according to results of a city survey obtained March 16 by The Coastal Star.
The city in late November mailed surveys
By Margie Plunkett
Delray Beach finished sifting through its trash in July, ending an investigation ofrefuse hauler Waste Management’s billing that turned up about $76,000 due the city and several dysfunctional business practices. No impropriety
