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How to Prevent and Reduce Illegal Dumping

Center for Community Progress

Illegal dumping has public health, economic, and environmental consequences. Once, on a public street, someone dumped a 55-gallon drum of an extremely hazardous chemical right at the curb near a park within the city,” said Keith L. Walker, Director of the Department of Public Works in Camden, New Jersey. “It