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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		The History of Northwoods Garbage Collection
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:27
	Publish Date:		2021-04-28 10:20:09
	Description:		Most of us give little thought to the trash we produce, except perhaps when it is time to take the garbage bucket to the curb for the weekly collection. Northwoods residents are fortunate to have an efficient system of trash collection and recycling. Nevertheless, weekly trash pickup is a recent luxury, and in the past things were quite different. The accumulation of garbage has been a problem since human civilization began, and almost every society dealt with it by creating a communal dump somewhere outside of town. But a dump is only a partial solution because it is dependent on individuals taking the initiative to haul their own trash to the site. Many people find that it is much easier simply to toss garbage into the nearest ditch, street, or wooded area. This is how it used to be in the Northwoods. In the earliest days of the logging and mining camps, most trash was burned. If it was not combustible, it was tossed aside to rust. As communities formed in the Northwoods, most
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