People are paying $7 to see Chicago's garbage and sewage sites in tour called "Down in the Dumps". The nearly three-hour bus tour of the far South Side includes water treatment plant, recycling center and landfills. It is a chance for residents, environmentalists and visitors to learn more about what happens to garbage once it leaves their trash cans.

People are paying $7 to see Chicago's garbage and sewage sites in tour called "Down in the Dumps". The nearly three-hour bus tour of the far South Side includes water treatment plant, recycling center and landfills. It is a chance for residents, environmentalists and visitors to learn more about what happens to garbage once it leaves their trash cans.

The city of Boston may ask The Rolling Stones to turn down the noise. In its efforts to minimize the impact of Fenway Park concerts on surrounding neighborhoods, the city will arm police officers with noise meters outside the Stones' show Tuesday night. If the noise exceeds 70 decibels on surrounding streets, Patricia Malone, director of the Mayor's Office of Consumer Affairs and Licensing, will be alerted. She will then tell concert host Clear Channel to turn down the volume.

An unusually high concentration of jellyfish has caused a large amount of discomfort along Spain's Mediterranean coast this summer, according to officials. The Red Cross says lifeguards have treated almost 11,000 people for stings on beaches so far this season in the northeastern region of Catalonia alone; twice the number from the same period last year, when the jellyfish count had already begun to rise.

One borough in the Garden state of New Jersey has taken to extreme measures to ban drinking games. The city of Belmar, New Jersey is going through what some are calling a civil-war of sorts recently between seasonal and annual residents of the small oceanside town -- over drinking games that have been annoying residents.