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Solar Compactors Make Mincemeat of Trash
July 17, 2007 07:18 AM
In the summer months, Chicagoans flock to the city's beautiful Lake Michigan waterfront. Given the kinds of winters they have to put up with, you can understand why.
But one of the drawbacks to a day at the beach is the garbage.
"I think a lot of times, the beaches do get dirty," observed Dan Quinn of suburban Burr Ridge, Ill. on a recent afternoon.
Quinn's 4-year-old daughter, Ava, splashed around in the clear, shallow water, while he looked up and down the beach. He pointed to some ring-necked gulls digging in the sand.
"I just saw a seagull picking at a lime over there that someone must have dumped off a margarita they had last night," Quinn says...
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