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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Trash Talk
Improved techniques allow dumps to keep ‘piling it on’.
An interesting report on the trash business.
It seems that because of some of the new and innovative processes being used in the modern trash industry, we’re using less land-fill space than we had expected.
I think this is great news. I always get a kick out of efficiency and I congratulate the guys who came up with these ideas.
I know we’ve got issues with trash ourselves, right here in ‘river city’. But they do not relate to a lack of land-fill space. They are more involved with just cleaning the place up and everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY, bearing their own share of the responsibility. Personally, I’m disappointed with the City Fathers’ inability to act on this and I often wonder just WHY they have failed so often, of late, to put into affect what most reasonably prudent individuals would call sensible municipal ordinances to affect keeping the city and the citizens, not to mention the property, reasonably clean and uncluttered by extraneous refuse.
And yet….this month opens the gate for the City Fathers to inact mandatory recycling??!??! This makes no sense….at least to me. Recycling is secondary to just getting rid of the pestiforous trash. And this report, that we are not running out of land-fill space as quickly as some people here were suggesting a few months ago, makes the recycling plans even more specious.