11.   There no longer is any hope of patching potholes, collecting trash, putting down insurrections, holding parades or treating the water supply.

12.   They spend their time preparing herbal medicines, treating patients, collecting trash, and reading North Korean papers on the Internet.

13.   Trinity Waste Systems near Fort Worth will take bulky items left at the curb, but only after crews finish collecting household trash on their route.

14.   Trash is collected in the back yard to keep unsightly cans off the curb.

15.   What that means is that in many cases, the city collects the trash less often in areas covered by BIDs.

16.   Pollution is not as bad as in Jakarta, where children float in inner tubes along polluted rivers collecting trash for recycling.

17.   As an act of good will on Tuesday, striking workers collected trash outside the central Athens meat market.

18.   But there has been little ongoing maintenance, aside from some individual efforts, such as volunteers who collect trash.

19.   By next year NASA hopes to come up with recommendations on how such trash can be collected, he said.

20.   Don Hammer, chairman of the city Planning Board, volunteers collecting trash on the Cliff Walk and hopes repairs can be done soon.