Solid Waste Series
There was no shortage of trash talk exchanged between New York and Philadelphia during the recently concluded 2009 World Series (congratulations, Yankees … AGAIN). But that’s not the only trash traveling between the two cities.
This week, the New York Times featured a well-written story about New York’s mutually beneficial waste exporting relationship, in which it pays other municipalities — including the Pennsylvania communities of Morrisville, Tullytown and Falls Township — to accept its refuse. Rather than resent the constant stream of trash from New Yorkers, residents of these Phillies-loving towns reap rich financial benefits. They even exhibit pride in their modern landfills, a far cry from New York’s maligned Fresh Kills landfill, the closing of which necessitated this arrangement in the first place.
Interesting read.
December 14th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
This is the problem or let’s say the big pink elephant in the room with the Waste Industry. The industry model is to bury trash to make money. As long as citizens that host these landfills know the environmental hazards every single landfill in operation today will carry; a ugly clean up for future citizens. We cannot promote a environmentally sound landfill (it’s a oxymoron). We have invested for many years in a infrastructure that promotes landfilling first and recycling second.
Lets make these environmentally sound landfills last as long as possible and not fill them for the sake of the original Green movement Money.
I’m just saying………..
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