Dive summary:

• Officials in West, Texas are looking to reopen the closed city landfill to allow for debris from the explosion of a fertilizer plan last month.
• The current city sanitation service will only pick up small debris and residents need their larger waste items to go somewhere.
• The landfill has been closed for more than 20 years because of problems with government regulations.

From the article:

For the first time since the April 17 explosion, which leveled entire neighborhoods and killed at least 15 people, the West's Sanitation Department is picking up trash in the blast zone. However, the city is only picking up bagged household garbage, leaving many residents without a place to drop off larger items, the report said.
Officials with West are currently working with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality to reopen the landfill, which has been closed for more than 20 years due to the town's inability to keep up with government regulation, according to the report. ...