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Bed bugs in apartment complexes: bed bug “lotharios” and “Nintento Trojan horses”

by nobugsonme on September 21, 2009 · 4 comments

in Columbus Apartment Association, Nintendo Trojan horses, bed bug lotharios, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, dr. susan jones, dumpster diving, mark sheperdigian, multi-unit buildings, spread of bed bugs, throwing stuff out

Caveat dumpster! Do not take those Brooklyn sofas, Craigslist readers

by nobugsonme on May 5, 2009 · 0 comments

in Brooklyn, Caveat dumpster, bed bug registry, bed bugs, bedbugs, bushwick, craigslist, curbside, dumpster diving, east williamsburg, free furniture, misinformation, new york, nyc, sofas, williamsburg

Time Out New York tackles the New York obsession with free furniture

by nobugsonme on October 16, 2008

in Brooklyn, Lower East Side, bed bugs, bed bugs in the media, bedbugs, box springs, cabinet, carpet, curbside, desk, dumpster diving, forced air, furniture, inspection, manhattan, mattresses, new york city, nyc

The bed bug times are a’ changin’, ever so slowly

by nobugsonme on May 22, 2008 · 0 comments

in apartments, bad ideas, bed bug awareness, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug-infested refuse, bed bugs, bed bugs and dumpster diving, bed bugs and landlords, bed bugs and mattresses, bed bugs and tenants, bed bugs in apartment buildings, bed bugs spread, bedbugs, dumpster diving, freegans, maine, mattress recycling, mattresses, portland, tossing things out, usa, used furniture, used mattresses

Dumpster-diving tenant evicted after Winnipeg apartment seriously infested with bed bugs

by nobugsonme on December 29, 2007 · 6 comments

in bed bug eviction, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bed bugs and dumpster diving, bed bugs and hoarding, bedbugs, canada, curbside, dumpster diving, eviction, getting rid of bed bugs, hoarding, landlords, mental illness, sherbrook street, tenants, winnipeg

Bed bug news round-up: USA Today, Minnesota Star-Tribune, and the Astral in Greenpoint

by nobugsonme on November 8, 2007 · 14 comments

in Donna Freydkin, Greenpointers, USA Today, activism, awareness, bed bug bites, bed bug epidemic, bed bug garbage, bed bug hotels, bed bug treatment, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, dr. michael potter, dr. michael raupp, dr. stephen kells, dumpster diving, entomologists, get rid of bed bugs, good ideas, greenpoint, hotels, hotels and bed bugs, how to get rid of bed bugs, journalist, journalists with bed bugs, new york, news, nyc, spread, stories, tossing stuff out, travel and bed bugs, treatment, usa

Cincinnati Establishes Bed Bug Furniture Pick-Up Procedures and Hotline

by nobugsonme on September 19, 2007 · 1 comment

in bed bugs, bedbugs, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, furniture, ohio

Finally, somebody does something: Cincinnati’s new Bed Bug Remediation Commission

by nobugsonme on September 7, 2007 · 4 comments

in Tipping Point, bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, cincinnati, curbside, dumpster diving, flea market, furniture, good ideas, government, health, history, hotels, housing laws, mattresses, motels, new york, nyc, ohio, prevention, public education, public health, secondhand, spread, stories, tenants, usa, used furniture

Eastern Nazarene College: students cannot bring in ANY used furniture

by nobugsonme on September 4, 2007 · 4 comments

in Quincy, bed bugs, bedbugs, colleges, consumer, curbside, dumpster diving, eastern nazarene college, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, massachusetts, mattresses, students, students and bed bugs, usa

New Yorkers: a real-life “I called 311 to report bed bugs” story

by nobugsonme on August 29, 2007 · 6 comments

in bed bugs, bedbugs, curbside, detection, dumpster diving, flea market, government, history, housing laws, landlords, legal, misinformation

Street scene: still life with bed bugs

by nobugsonme on August 16, 2007 · 5 comments

in bed bugs, bedbugs, best practices, curbside, dumpster diving, nyc, used furniture

Furniture scavenging: does it appeal, in the age of bed bugs?

by nobugsonme on June 29, 2007 · 12 comments

in apartmenttherapy, bed bugs, bedbugs, consumer, dumpster diving, furnishing bedbug-free homes, furniture, prevention

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