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In case you don't realize it, Cumberland County is all set to become Allied Waste's newest addition to their already massive empire. This past November members of the Cumberland County Board of Supervisors voted to rezone a section of land just east of Cumberland Courthouse along US 60 near what is known as "The Woods" or as lifetime residents of the area are now calling it, "The Dump" This rezoning will result in the creation of several projects designed to turn this rustic wooded homestead into a 250 to 300 foot high mountain of MSW (Municipal Solid Waste). Despite the pleas of their friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens who turned out by the hundreds to meeting after meeting to beg them to reconsider, these pleas went ignored, and Cumberland County Land Development LLC (CCLD) was born. You should know that LLC means "limited liability" and that if a resident gets rat-bitten, or someone tries to sue, these scrupulous types will simply close up shop and relocate |
Our own County leaders assure us that the modern landfill methods practiced are infallible... and that the project is a win-win situation. However, even an Allied spokesperson was unable to guarantee that the liner would not leak. In fact, we have evidence that they all leak because of a design flaw. RAP has discovered some unsettling facts regarding the reliability of the established methods used for the construction of these landfills. 1. The cover or "cap" is immediately attacked and destroyed by vegetation, burrowing rodents, and insects, thus allowing the formation of "garbage juice" or leachate. 2. The EPA states that case histories of Subtitle D "dry tomb" landfills of this type has established that HDPE plastic WILL fail in as little as two years. |
Did you know that Phillips Petroleum, the manufacturer of the HDPE plastic liner used in a landfill has determined that it's product is NOT COMPATABLE with many household chemicals such as ethyl alcohol (booze), shampoo, hair oils, household cleaning chemicals, dry cleaning solutions, foods & food products: cider, lard, margarine, vinegar, vanilla extract, and even peppermint? It is reasonable to expect that all of these materials will one day end up in a landfill, thus making the integrity of the bottom liner a myth. In other words, all landfills leak! In some cases up to 1 gallon per day per acre of landfill. We are Residents Against Pollution, and we say... |
This web site was created by people that have educated themselves as to the facts regarding landfills. The truth is that subtitle D "dry tomb" type landfills like the one being proposed in our county is a flawed technology, has caused irreversible damage to our environment, and like the nuclear energy industry, any new development should be placed on hold until certain problems with the practiced methods of building these facilities are corrected.
Our intention is to allow the evidence to stand for itself. The US Environmental Protection Agency acknowledges that every landfill will leak. Swedish research now shows that the leachate toxicity of a landfill is still not benign after a thousand years. Even landfill professionals are now saying that we should assess the true costs of landfills based on looking after each of them for 500 years.
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What Is Zero Waste?
Zero Waste is a philosophy and a design principle for the 21st Century. It includes 'recycling' but goes beyond recycling by taking a 'whole system' approach to the vast flow of resources and waste through human society.
Zero Waste maximizes recycling, minimizes waste, reduces consumption and ensures that products are made to be reused, repaired or recycled back into nature or the marketplace.
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* redesigns the current, one-way industrial system into a circular system modeled on Nature's successful strategies * challenges badly designed business systems that "use too many resources to make too few people more productive" * addresses, through job creation and civic participation, increasing wastage of human resources and erosion of democracy * helps communities achieve a local economy that operates efficiently, sustains good jobs, and provides a measure of self-sufficiency. * aims to eliminate rather than manage waste |
Zero Waste makes recycling a powerful entry point into a critique of excessive consumption, waste, corporate irresponsibility, and the fundamental causes of environmental destruction.
Some Stories and Data Provided By: EJNET.ORG
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