Article: Spill trashes Shrewsbury Street; Worcester, company waste no time in garbage cleanup.(LOCAL NEWS)

Byline: Linda Bock

WORCESTER - Talk about a bad day at work.

A Waste Management garbage truck somehow lost its load of trash on Shrewsbury Street yesterday, temporarily blocking two lanes of traffic. The garbage truck was headed east on Shrewsbury Street about 10:15 a.m. when it began to spill trash, according to witnesses. The truck had just been on the east side of Worcester at some commercial accounts.

"We heard noise," Sharon Jolicoeur said as she watched the cleanup from in front of Donut Cafe, 399 Shrewsbury St., along with a small group. "There is this wicked smell."

The garbage truck must have dropped trash for 200 to 250 yards ...

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