Currently, 95 companies collect refuse in that midtown district, which would include all of Rockefeller Center.

The decision to assign soldiers to collect refuse was one of several steps taken to help prevent the outbreak of an epidemic.

Others collect old shoes, scraps of plastic and other refuse that will smolder and produce heavy smoke.

Currently, the Sanitation Department's trucks collect recyclable refuse every other week from 41 of its 59 districts.

Only if the council's own refuse department, for example, won the contract would it be able to continue to collect refuse.

No one disputes that collecting recyclables in New York costs more per ton than collecting ordinary refuse.

After business hours the neighborhood is very quiet until 10 or 11 P.M., when garbage trucks arrive to collect refuse from private businesses.

Residents have organised to direct traffic and collect refuse.

Mr. Giammarino, who was 15 feet away collecting other refuse, rushed to help his partner, pulling him away from the truck.

Failure to collect refuse at 15 Belmont Road.