The issues, they said, involve economy, water, solid-waste disposal, transportation, energy and housing.

Towns on the Cape are realizing that recycling must become part of the solution to solid-waste disposal.

Neighborhoods are using this newfound political power to tackle, at the local level, society's most persistent problems-education, crime, equal access to capital, and solid-waste disposal.

It is, at length, a painful lesson in solid-waste disposal.

Soon after it began its travels, the barge became a enormous floating symbol for an ever-worsening national problem of solid-waste disposal.

Mr. Anderson said state officials were most worried about solid-waste disposal and sewage overflow this summer.

TO hear villagers tell the story, the problem of solid-waste disposal in this community has become a matter of insult added to injury.

It has come, however, at a time when plastics are moving to the fore in the quickening national debate over solid-waste disposal.

Our statewide experience in the area of solid-waste disposal is a prime example of just how poorly we have been served by the home rule approach.

But with that growth has come soaring housing costs and rising problems in traffic, solid-waste disposal and drug abuse.