He occasionally traded his "breadwinner"--the cart used to haul cans from the trash dump to the scrap dealer--for alcohol.

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Today, Noun provides 240 kids from the trash dump a free education, food, health services and an opportunity to be a child in a safe environment.

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In 2004, her organization -- the People Improvement Organization (PIO) -- opened a school at Phnom Penh's largest municipal trash dump, where children are a large source of labor.

CNN: Saving children from Cambodia's trash heap

But any attempt on my part to be alone meditating, showering, walking out into the hallway to dump trash down the chute results in that same siren sound.

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We divert that much of our waste stream to recycling and actually make money on it instead of paying tipping fees to dump trash in the ground.

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In these, Jessen's troops sample e-mail, lecture employees to be circumspect about what they put into mail and install procedures and software programs to make sure that the files computer users dump in the trash are really gone from their hard drives.

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Its incineration plants offer a look into the future where countries could potentially make money off of their trash and not just dump it in the ocean or bury it in mass landfills.

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Growing up in Jaipur, the trash dumps used to be plentiful, and there was a garbage dump right by his house.

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