Totnes, United Kingdom Officials are appealing to people using Devon County Council's recycling centers to think twice about the items they are throwing out in an effort to save time and resources of the waste council and police. The plea comes after reports of a UXO disposed of in general waste at a recycling center in Totnes.

A cardboard box, found in the residual waste container, was removed by a staff member. Before sorting the box to the cardboard container, he noticed the UXO along with some spent ammunition. The center was closed for several hours and police were called to the site to examine the ordnance, which was later removed by the bomb squad.

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Honolulu, Hawaii A lawsuit has been filed against the U.S. Army alleging violation of a 2001 court settlement. The settlement granted the native Hawaiian group Malama Makua limited access to sacred sites of Makua Valley, an area used for decades of military training.

Attorneys for the environmental law organization Earthjustice filed the lawsuit in federal court in Honolulu to protest a "blanket ban" in 2014 by the Army calling for a clearance from historic preservations to cut grass on trails leading to the cultural sites, an effort to insure any UXO in the area would be avoided. Then, in September 2015, the Army obtained a grass-cutting agreement but called for an investigation of an accident in which two contractors who were cutting grass for military training in April 2015 were injured by exploding UXO.

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