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Waste Management |
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Address water quality and solid waste issues for the region. |
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Safe, clean, litter-free environment in our region. |
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Program to reduce roadside trash. |
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Enforce trash regulations vis a vis roadside clean-up. |
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Tennessee is beautiful - clean up white trash. |
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Pick up roadsides. |
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Create a recycling program in Union Co. |
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Interstate cleanup on -off ramps. |
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Recycle programs. |
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Clean highways and roadways of trash. |
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More recycling facilities. |
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Five cent refund on bottles. |
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Create litter program. |
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Better recycling program in school. |
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Strict anti-littering laws with PR and appropriate sanctions. |
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Continue to develop ETTP site after clean up. |
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Regional multipurpose recycling facility affordable to all communities. |
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Make 9 counties the world leader in clean recycling industries specializing in reuse and recycling. |
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Recycling in a big, big way (everything), to preserve the entire region including the Smokies |
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Eliminate trash. |
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Clean up trash in region. |
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Major campaign through education about littering. Enforce littering laws. |
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Lobby Congress to get Department of Energy to beef up cleaning of Oak Ridge. |
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Clean up city (pollution, trash on highway, etc.). |
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Use area incinerators to generate power and eliminate landfills. |
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Public trash pickup. |
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Reinforce trash codes. |
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Comprehensive recycling program. |
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Teach school children the responsibility of disposing trash properly. |
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Recycle process improved. |
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War on litter |
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Develop recycling programs. |
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Curb-side recycling. |
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Somewhere and somehow, find ways to clan up litter and keep it clean in our region. |
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Garbage: homes should take care of their own; businesses must put up fence around dumpsters. Garbage contractors must be more responsible for keeping garbage in trucks. |
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Streets cleaned up. No autos on sidewalks. |
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Recycle bins in every building and on the streets for all recycling: paper, glass, cardboard, plastic. Weekly city pickup. |
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Recycling. |
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County-wide sewer and water. |
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Have a beautification policy that includes well maintained recycling centers, litter prevention and removal. |
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The county should have programs to clean up the community through community service projects or inmates. |
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A system that screens potential industries on their possible pollution which would make them deal with disposal of their own waste. |
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Central recycling center (county-wide). |
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Bottle/can deposit. |
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Tougher litter laws (enforced). |
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Mandatory recycling. |
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Need more recycling centers. |
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Critical need for water and sewer in fast growing areas. |
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Make recycling simple and easy to do. |
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Recycle more. |
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Completion of sewer system. |
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Bottle and can deposits. |
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Pollution hotline. |
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Increase water and waste water services and accessibility for the entire region, including Seymour. |
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Improved handling of wastes so recycling works. |
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Litter and waste education for the whole environment. |
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Comprehensive recycling. |
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Better environmental awareness - recycling, pollution. |
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Waste reduction including community composting program. |
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Curb-side recycling. |
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Some kind of a garbage disposal in Blount County. |
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More recycling programs. |
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Regional program for recycling pick up. |
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Provide curbside recycling. |
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Cleaner roads with more recycling and less waste. |
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Clean up the litter - tools include education, fines, bottle bill, enforcing laws, using volunteers. |
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Comprehensive and effective recycling program for entire region. |
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Curb side recycling. |
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Recycling of garbage enforcement! |
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Clean up litter and junk, deposit on bottles. |
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Better landfill management and waste management - regional incinerator. |
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Build litter targets. |
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Recycling centers improved. |
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More anti-litter laws - enforced. |
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Keep our streets cleaner. |
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Utility water for all homes and sewage extended. |
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Add more recycle centers. |
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Better recycling - make people more aware and encourage use by providing recycling centers. |
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Formalize a recycling plan for household and industrial. |
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Enforce elimination of Tennessee trash from roadways and public areas. |
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Stay abreast of recycling efforts. |
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Collect substantial deposit on all beverage containers to eliminate roadside trash. |
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Do something about litter-empower food establishments to promote anti-litter initiative. |
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Free trash pickup to help keep county clean. Reduce incentive for dumping. |
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Refuse to energy program. |
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"Open truck" laws to combat trash/litter. |
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Philadelphia needs a sewer system |
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Mandatory recycling with profits to education |
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Stop free burning |
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County-wide water and sewer service |
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Inter county co-operation regarding reduction and disposal of garbage |
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More comprehensive recycling |
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Mandatory recycling |
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General clean up of area |
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Free of litter and trash |
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Less dumping and keep South Knoxville cleaner |
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Curbside recycling |
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A feed for hauling and dumping of garbage |
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Bottle law. |
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Recycling pick-up/curbside pickup. |
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More recycling centers/bins. |
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Mandatory waste reduction for businesses and schools. |
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Recycling pick-up at our homes. |
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Limit on amount of each household's waste (trash). |
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Plan for getting all recyclables easily to recycling center. |
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Better planning for residential development impacts on sewage, drainage and other impacts. |
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Get schools to recycle more. |
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Community and private industry involvement in the cleanup of highways and streets. |
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Curbside recycling program region-wide and UT. |
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Incentives to encourage recycling. |
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Recycle programs, convenience centers and landfills (waste management). |
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Modern waste disposal including recycling pickup system. |
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Make money from garbage, use it to lower taxes. |
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Clean up the litter. |
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Recycling center in every city or county. |
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Update dumpsters with trash compactors. |
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Sewer system for the county. |
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Better restrictions on junkyards and car lots. |
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911 phone systems. |
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Zoning - if junk yard, be zoned. |
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Better recycling capabilities. |
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Sewer systems other than septic tank systems. |
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Garbage disposal from a regional perspective. |
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County-wide recycling program for Grainger County. |
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Recycling Center |
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Improve utilities for region (landfill, water, sewer). |
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Lake level, clean up water quality (garbage streams). |
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Recycling more convenient. |
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Do something about trash and litter (bottle laws?). |
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Curb pollution. |
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Make recycling more accessible and provide incentives. |
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Mandatory recycling. |
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Need sewer system. |
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Water and sewer for Nine Counties. |
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Extend utility water and sewer throughout the county. |
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Encourage schools, businesses, and citizens to RECYCLE. |
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Restore personal and community pride to address trash problems, parenting, and other issues. |
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County-wide water and sewer system. |
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Recycling program. |
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Cleaner roadways. |
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Build an incinerator to convert solid waste into electricity. |
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Litter control. |
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Clean up our air -- better enforcement of pollution control. |
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Clean, fix, get rid of junk cars and litter and trash. |
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Better education on recycling and emphasize not littering. |
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Litter control/waste management -- recycling. |
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Natural gas, public water and sewer systems need to be improved for commercial and residential use. |
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Something done about litter. |
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Garbage pickup for every household. |
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Manned and cleaned trash drop-off locations with recycling bins. |
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Recycling centers. |
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Protect natural environment from air/water/visual pollution. |
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Landfills for use only by our county. |
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Public water and sewage for all residents. |
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Waste convenient centers. |
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Clean up and make our community more appealing to market ourselves. |
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Recycling pickup. |
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Organize way to pick up litter, dispose of it, and recycle! |
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Clean up trash in counties. |
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County-wide anti-littering campaign. |
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Encourage recycling programs. |
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Reduction of litter in neighborhoods. |
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Promote better residential and business recycling programs. |
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Counties' garbage combined -- convert to fuel logs to replace fossil fuels. |
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Enhanced opportunities to recycle, including incentives or curbside service. |
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Use volunteers (scouts, prisoners) for recycling efforts. |
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Build waste incinerator in Nine Counties to generate power alternatives. |
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Enforce rules against construction erosion. |
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Improve recycling and provide more convenient centers. |
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Better litter pickup and recycling. |
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Pass bottle deposit law and enforce recycling. |
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Require deposit for litter control. |
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Mini-competition between communities for prizes with recycling. |
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Prison labor for clean up. |
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Litter -- control it. |
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Keep litter and billboards off highways and streets. |
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Emphasize recycling (Chestnut Ridge is filing up). |
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Discourage illegal dumping. |
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Look globally for the best rubbish disposable system. |
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Programs and incentives for recycling. |
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Strong bottle and can deposit law. |
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Strong no litter law with appropriate fines. |
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Build waste incinerator as power source. |
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Become a SUPER RECYCLING region. |
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Address the litter problems; clean up the countryside. |
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Exceed our recycling goals. |
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Restrict junk mail and additional supplements. |
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Environmental concerns through industrial waste and sewage disposal and litter and use of land around waterways for industrial use. |
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New ways to deal with TN trash. |
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Stronger laws on litter and programs to encourage recycling, including "open truck law." |
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Integrate garbage/refuse collection throughout region and user-friendly (convenient) convenience stores. |
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Develop a sense of pride in our surroundings relative to trash/junk/garbage. |
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Eliminate landfills -- build incinerator to burn waste and produce electricity. |
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A recycling program to educate and inform the public to strictly enforce recycling. |
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Eliminate roadside litter -- enforce the litter laws. |
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Create a focused recycling program, including pilot funding for businesses that transform waste into useable products. |
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Recycle -- pickup service. |
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Clean up litter: education, enforcement, recyclables. |
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Recycling program that is mandatory and easy -- curbside pickup with labeled containers. |
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Region-wide recycling and waste exchange program. |
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Can and bottle return law. |
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Reduce, reuse, recycle! |
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Preserve national parks and encourage/provide better recycling techniques and availability. |
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Bottle bill and more extensive recycling. |
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Tough on trash. |
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Re-cycling as priority. |
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Clean up our roads, highways, streets; outlaw litter. |
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System for collecting recycling. |
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Bio-technical storm water management and biological waste water management. |
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Clean up litter. |
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Affordable access to landfill. |
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Recycling pick up in Maryville like Alcoa. |
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Litter reduction campaign. |
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Comprehensive recycling that is cost effective. |
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An aggressive deposit system on all disposable containers; all other materials biodegradable. |
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Develop an energy efficient waste disposal system. |
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Litter needs to be eliminated through recycling. |
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Search for other ways to dispose of garbage instead of landfills. |
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Incentives for litter reduction. (fast food tax/bottle deposits) |
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Regional recycling in Knoxville without dumping. |
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Improve recycling. |
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Curbside regional recycling. |
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Mandatory bottle bills to force better waste management, increase recycling. |
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Curbside recycling. |
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Minimize garbage through education; tax incentives for businesses to use recyclable packaging or containers. |
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More progress on reduce, reuse and recycle. |
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curbside recycles/trash pick up fees. |
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Bottle bill deposits. |
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Initiate "pay as you throw" for reduced garbage on the roads. |
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Compact instead of land fills. |
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Serious anti-litter campaign! |
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A major re-cycling center that allows us to re-use the by-product. |
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Better public support for recycling programs including residential pick up. |
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More recycling programs with an emphasis on them being mandatory. |
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Promote more clean up of area i.e.. trash and promote keeping things clean. |
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People gather to clean up trash. |
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Implement a recycling system that pays for itself. |
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Anti-littering law. |
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Incentives to recycle. |
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Strict litter and dumping laws. |
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Curbside recycling. |
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Refund for packaging materials. |
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Recycle. |
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Develop some sort of major recycling center. |
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Public education of regarding cost of solid waste handling and disposal. |
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Recycling place for tires. We've already paid for it, where is it? |
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Reduce tourist "junk". |
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Make landfills productive and profitable. |
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clean up the trash. |
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Remove junk vehicles without license tags. |
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Instigate a bottle bill and recycling. |
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Build recycling facilities that are more accessible. |
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Recycle! |
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A major recycling program in Sevier County to include education. |
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Much stronger litter laws and enforcement including a bottle deposit law. |
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Concentrate on recycling more. |
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Better trash/litter control/recycling. |
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Deposits by returns to encourage litter control. |
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Clean it up! Get rid of all the trash. |
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Plan for solid waste incineration as alternative to land fills, recycling incentives. |
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Recycle everything with a label on it. |
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Regularly-scheduled work crews to clean up public areas with incentives. |
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Quit wasting our natural resources with the words, recycle, recycle… |
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Enhanced recycling, bottle return deposits and anti-littering laws. |
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No sidewalk trash storage at night. |
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Strong emphasis on recycling. |
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Mandatory recycling. |
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Adopt-a-mile clean up weekly. |
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Community recycle. |
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Laws and codes for recycling of building materials and trash. |
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Curbside recycling programs. |
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Let prisoners sort recycles and put litterbugs into prison. |