Dive Brief:

• Workers at the Vista landfill in Apopka, FL had to call in the local bomb squad to investigate suspicious materials brought to the site for disposal.
• The area was cleared out as employees were evacuated while the investigation got underway. 
• The Orange County Bomb Squad arrived at the landfill and determined the "bombs" were fake. After it received the all clear, the landfill continued normal operations for the rest of the day.

Dive Insight:

The load that contained the "bomb" was from Orange County, FL. The case has been relinquished by the Bomb Squad and is now in the hands of the local sheriff’s office. 

This scare is all in a days work for some waste and recycling employees. In November 2013, the bomb squad was called to a recycling center in Washington D.C. after items resembling six sticks of dynamite were discovered. In Bend, OR, a waste worker was hurt as he held a bottle bomb that exploded in his hand. Police were called to the scene to take care of two more bottles found in the same area. In March 2012, a bomb scare prompted a Waste Management facility in Hillsboro, OR to stop operations while the bomb squad investigated the incident.