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ABC Disposal should provide proof that it needs to renegotiate its trash collection contract with the city.

The co-owner of a trash company was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with defrauding the operator of the Fall River Landfill out of approximately $463,000 in disposal fees.

The owner of a Westport trash company pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court in Boston in connection with defrauding the operator of the Fall River landfill out of approximately $473,000 in disposal fees. Stephen P. Aguiar, 47, of Westport, pleaded guilty to three counts of mail fraud...

A decisive superior court ruling for the Town of Dartmouth this week. A judge has upheld the Conservation Commission's denial of a permit to Boston Environmental Commission to dump contaminants in the Cecil Smith Landfill, and then cap it...

As if there is not enough to do, what with the Commonwealth facing a budget shortfall of around a billion dollars for FY17, now lawmakers want to set a limit on how much you can toss in your own household trash can each year.  Seriously...

The Dartmouth Select Board is reaching out to Governor-elect Charlie Baker about current plans for the privately owned Smith-Robinson landfill. State environmental officials want to cap the North Dartmouth landfill with contaminated soil trucked from the Boston area to Dartmouth...

A video game that's widely considered to be the worst ever made is going up for auction today. Copies of 1982's  "E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial" were recently unearthed from a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico. The fact that the Atari cartridges ended up there was the result of epic commercial failure...

Dartmouth might be taking the state to court soon. The state Department of Environmental Protection will decide by Tuesday whether a Brockton company's proposal to cap the defunct Cecil Smith landfill with one million tons of contaminated soil goes forward...

The Dartmouth Conservation Commission holds a public hearing to discuss the Smith Landfill project.