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What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day?
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Here's a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?!
It sounds like science fiction, but that's the plan in Saint Lucie County, Florida.
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Here's a conundrum. What do you do with three thousand tons of smelly garbage a day? Could you just, well, vaporize it?! It sounds like science fiction, but that's the plan in Saint Lucie County, Florida.
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