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A Company Goes Bust -- and Leaves the EPA with One Big Mess

By Michael Wall

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | July 1, 2004

A potential toxic soup sits in a shipping depot in southeast Atlanta. A shuttered company that specialized in disposing hazardous waste has abandoned about 13,000 containers there. Fifty-five-gallon drums containing flammable oils and lubricants are stacked on and amid chemicals that, if mixed with the flammables, could ignite.

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