Outside the hospital entrance he could see Nurse Angela talking to the man who hauled away the nonburnable trash.

So were garbage and nonburnable waste.

As in the past, arrangements can be made to get rid of bulky items or have nonburnable items picked up by calling a special number.

Public trash cans in Japan usually have separate slots for the burnable garbage (food waste, for instance) and the nonburnable (cans and glass bottles), and households separate the two.

Since Hempstead now relies on an incinerator to burn garbage, residents are being asked to deliver nonburnable items - construction debris, tires, sand, concrete - to the Merrick Residential Disposal Area, which is open all days but holidays.

Site remediation was originally to be done through an on-site incinerator, but after a significant portion of the incinerator apparatus was built, the plan was scrapped due to community opposition and the fact that many of the pollutants were nonburnable minerals.