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More Than 10 Percent of Harlingen, Texas, Area Trash Comes from Border Plants.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2004
By Elizabeth Pierson, Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 3--If it's not enough that the Rio Grande Valley has to find a place for its own trash, it also buries trash left from a continental trade agreement.
Nearly 11 percent of all the trash put in Valley landfills in 2002 came from maquiladoras, according to a draft solid waste plan for 2002 to 2020 developed by the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council.
Although much of the material includes non-toxic materials like cardboard and plastic, it takes up space in the already tight real estate of the landfills here.
"There is widespread concern in the (Valley) region that wastes generated at maquiladora plants in Matamoros and...
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