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August 30, 2024

Dumpsite to be expanded

As workers loaded trash on Monday behind the incinerator building in Pockwood Pond, Waste Management Director Marcus Solomon pointed up to a wooded area on the nearby hillside. The site, …

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by Rushton Skinner
September 29, 2023

Waste boss visits incinerator company

As part of efforts to repair the incinerator in Pockwood Pond by the end of the year, officials from the Department of Waste Management recently visited the plant’s manufacturer in …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Consutech
April 27, 2023

Residents protest over landfill smoke

About 10 residents affected by smoke from the Pockwood Pond landfill held a protest outside the House of Assembly on April 17, voicing their concerns over health issues caused by …

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by Alva Solomon
February 11, 2021

Recycling in the time of Covid

A walk to the Green VI recycling site in Paraquita Bay leads to stacks upon stacks of cubes made up of compressed plastic water bottles — a particular thorn in …

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by Dana Kampa
August 14, 2020

Fire breaks out in Pockwood landfill

Clouds of black smoke billowed from the landfill behind the Pockwood Pond incinerator after the area caught fire on Monday, but by the following day the flames had abated and …

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by Dana Kampa
pockwood pond incinerator scrubber
June 28, 2019

Contract for incinerator parts not yet signed

The government plans to distribute facemasks and to reduce the smoke coming from the Pockwood Pond landfill, but the parts needed to repair the non-functional incinerator there still have not …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Pockwood Pond
August 30, 2018

Three islands, three trash fires

On Tuesday night of last week, a fire started at the temporary dumpsite on Jost Van Dyke, burning bright enough that some residents said they could see the blaze from …

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by Amanda Ulrich

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