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Trash { 23 images } Created 11 Jan 2011

Construction debris, old cars, river trash:everything that litters the landscape, especially plastic bottles floating down the river.
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  • A sign in Spanish at a Cleveland County, NC construction site tells workers to separate construction debris based on content, for recycling. The construction project is seeking LEED certification and gains points for recycling debris.
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  • Trash heap at a community festival
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  • Old junk cars in rural area
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  • Old junk cars in rural area
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  • Old tires at a Charlotte, NC urban business
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  • Metrolina Recycling Center recycles the municipal waste from Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It is publicly-owned, privately operated by Casella/FCR. Processes about 60,000 tons of recyclables per year in a single incoming incoming stream. Newsprint is made into US Greenfibercellulose insulation.
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  • Metrolina Recycling Center recycles the municipal waste from Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It is publicly-owned, privately operated by Casella/FCR. Processes about 60,000 tons of recyclables per year in a single incoming incoming stream. Newsprint is made into US Greenfibercellulose insulation.
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  • This trash on the Catawba River is just below the Sugar Creek Tributary (upstream of this spot) which drains the City of Charlotte, NC
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  • This trash on the Catawba River is just below the Sugar Creek Tributary (upstream of this spot) which drains the City of Charlotte, NC
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  • This trash on the Catawba River is just below the Sugar Creek Tributary (upstream of this spot) which drains the City of Charlotte, NC
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  • This trash on the Catawba River is just below the Sugar Creek Tributary (upstream of this spot) which drains the City of Charlotte, NC
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  • This trash on the Catawba River is just below the Sugar Creek Tributary (upstream of this spot) which drains the City of Charlotte, NC
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  • SC Highway 9 bridge over the Catawba River. This is a "barge" of trash collected on the bridge supports after a heavy rain. The trash on the River is mostly below the Sugar Creek Tributary (upstream of this spot) which drains the City of Charlotte, NC
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  • L-R  Jim Schepp, R. Andrew Cox (CEO) and Michael Dodson, Director of Green Building. Cox& Schepp, Inc. They are at a construction debris recycling center, Metromont Recycling
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  • Recycling staging area at Ballantyne Corporate Park, Harris Building,
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  • Recycling staging area at construction site,  Ballantyne Corporate Park, Harris Building.
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  • Recycling staging area at construction site,  Ballantyne Corporate Park, Harris Building.
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  • Recycling area of construction site, Coxs & Schepp, Inc contractor. Site is Aloft Hotel in Ballantyne, which will be LEED certified.
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  • Blueprints accumulate as builders submit different iterations to the City/County for approval. Recycling instead of throwing away the paper gains LEED points. This is the CoX & Schepp, Inc. trailer at Ballantyne Corporate Park; the bluepints are in a recycling pile.
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  • Trash, in this case a child's car seat, gets stuck in trees along the Catawba River during high wtaer, and can remain hanging there for years.
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  • Litter in Charlotte's Little Sugar Creek, near downtown at Morehead Street
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  • Litter in Charlotte's Little Sugar Creek, near downtown at Morehead Street
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  • Litter in Little Sugar Creek near downtown Charlotte at Morehead Street
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