Buffett just may know more about garbage than his young friend, Bill Gates.
With their trash collection reduced to every other week, Portland households have had to hone their recycling skills or pay more for bigger garbage cans, which are provided by the network of private haulers who pick up the trash for the city of 583, 000.
All the same, its figures show that the state's garbage imports more than doubled between 1996 and the year ending last September, when 11.4m cubic yards arrived (6.6m from Canada).
The mayor is also reducing the number of bureaus in order to promote horizontal linkages over top-down policy-making, and giving local communities more autonomy in running operations like garbage collection.
La Chureca rubbish dump on the outskirts of the city is home for hundreds of families, who somehow survive picking through the putrid garbage of their marginally more fortunate neighbours.
During their most recent visit, they collected more than 120, 000 pounds of garbage in 14 working days.
Mr. Malloy's legal counsel, Luke Bronin, told CRRA officials that the governor is committed to helping the trash-to-energy plant model in Connecticut, which he said is a more environmentally sound way to dispose of garbage than landfills.
Most of us dress up more to chase a raccoon out of the garbage.
Just imagine how much more investigation brokerage firms would do concerning all the garbage that they touted if they had to guarantee customers against loss of principal or if they were only going to get paid a success fee from profits.
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And if you're also storing big items like lawn mowers, ladders, bicycles and garbage cans, a garage is far more convenient in terms of access than a storage room, even if the builder happened to put in French or patio doors where the garage doors normally are.
For garbage collector Li, telling the truth is even more problematic.
With people consuming more and more, an inevitable question is: Who will take out the garbage?
Bond funds are waking up to the garbage in their portfolios and see high demand from buyers more interested in avoiding taxes than capital losses.
Sam's Club offered the best deals on garbage bags, toilet paper and paper towels, but charged more for pens, file folders and toner.
There's more: She sells tickets at the box office, takes out the garbage and will work on the roof or boiler if needed.
The real sacrifice, even when it is invisible to most of us, is accumulating ever more things that quickly find their way to our costly, growing mountains of garbage.
The standards are high and kept high, the teachers are more 'old school' with proper discipline standards and teacher-pupil relationships rather than pally-pally garbage.
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There was nothing sophisticated about the Wackies (let alone the Garbage Pail Kids stickers that followed) but their gag humor appealed to children while making them more attuned to the language of marketing.
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