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Tag: Trash

This or That

1,000 Words: The mattress

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 10, 2016, 12:33 PM Aug 10, 2016
5

About 400,000 mattresses are purchased in Minnesota every year, which usually means about 400,000 mattresses are thrown out, sometimes by the side of the road. Read more →

Politics

Trash collection brouhaha becoming legislative issue

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 25, 2016, 6:39 AM Feb 25, 2016
36

Trash collection gets people riled up like few other issues in cities in Minnesota, but is it the business of the state to make the choice for them because lawmakers want consumers to have a choice? The latest city to consider eliminating the free-for-all of trash collection is St. Paul, and that’s forced a Republican Read more →

Politics

In Bloomington, trash as a symbol of freedom

Bob CollinsBob Collins May 11, 2015, 6:37 AM May 11, 2015
17

Nothing says ‘America’ like a trash truck in the morning. Read more →

The jobs we do

If this isn’t the worst job in Minnesota, what is?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 5, 2014, 10:31 AM Sep 5, 2014
2

Let us now consider this question, thanks to the lonely trash hauler whose trash inexplicably has ended up on I-494 at Excelsior Blvd., at this hour: What’s the worst job in Minnesota?
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Suburbanites cry: Don’t tread on me, or my trash bin

Bob CollinsBob Collins November 14, 2013, 3:12 PM Nov 14, 2013
10

Stand up for your dumpster!
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Wipes in the pipes vex city sewers

Bob CollinsBob Collins July 17, 2013, 12:24 PM Jul 17, 2013
5

If people really knew where the water goes when they flush the toilet, they might be a little more careful about what they throw in it.
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