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July 31, 2020

Trash piles up in cash-strapped cities during pandemic lockdown

By SHAWN MARSH
Associated Press

What would Ben Franklin think?

The Founding Father who launched one of America's first street-sweeping programs in Philadelphia in the late 1750s would see and smell piles of fly-infested, rotting household waste, bottles and cans as the city that he called home struggles to overcome a surge in garbage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.


 
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