New Jersey officials have given the trash problem top priority.

As written, the bill would only trade one trash problem for another.

Since taking office, the mayor has struggled to get a solid grasp on the city's trash problems.

The toxic components of household products pose serious health risks and aggravate the trash problem.

Recycling is just part of the city's gargantuan trash problem.

That, in essence, is the beginning and the end of the Bloomberg administration's solution to the city's $1-billion-a-year trash problem.

The large number of reflectors and the trash problem posed by their fall make the system unattractive.

The "trash problem" has emerged as the city's No. 1 public problem and specific campaign issue.

Action is needed to deal with the trash problem, but reopening the landfill is not an appropriate solution.

Otherwise, an excellent opportunity to get a grip on New York's mounting trash problem will have been missed.