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Brad Ritter Odor and dust control has always been a necessity for waste and recycling operations, but it carries more weight today than it once did.

Joan Meiners is an environmental writer based in St. George, Utah. She writes for the Spectrum & Daily News through Report for America. Chris Caldwell is a photographer for the Spectrum & Daily News.

On a blustery March morning, a wind gust lifted a dust wall hundreds of feet high from a bare piece of land south of Coolidge. It engulfed 23 cars and was blamed for a road accident. Ten days later, ...