Comments on: Tiny Town Files Suit Against Giant Dump; Developers Toss Words At Escambia, Florida

By: art

art — Mon, 07 Mar 2011 22:22:42 +0000

fred i like the way you think buddie.

By: citizen g

citizen g — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 15:23:17 +0000

what the heck. a big adeiu about simple things. throw your trash out on the roadside like everyone else does.

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:04:42 +0000

Just An Old Soldier

Tell’em like it is!!!!

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 18:01:34 +0000

You know, the more I sit here and think about this whole Garbage problem, the more I realize that there is a real simple solution.
The key to this can be better management of the Garbage by the Homeowners themselves.
We all know that a lot of people will throw everything but the Kitchen Sink in their Garbage containers.
And if they replace a Glass Sink, they would probably throw it in there because Glass is one of the biggest problems with Household Garbage disposal.
Why can’t there be a Glass recycling business?
If we could do this how much smaller would these landfills be?

Metal objects: Bean cans, peach cans, Ham cans and such are all Recycling Items.
Go down to the Dollar Store and buy a container just to put your metal cans in.
When it is full, if you don’t want to take it to the Scrape yard yourself, Just put it beside the road with a sign, “free metal” and I can assure you it won’t be there long.
NOTE: Be sure to not buy a metal container, they’ll steal it for scrape.

Plastic objects: I don’t know the status of the Plastic Recycling Industry, but I’m sure it could be Improved to handle Plastics in Household Garbage.

Well this would bring us down to paper items and general food scrapes to bury in the Landfills.
But lets do something with this bacteria creating substance before we bury it in our good Earth.
If you have ever been to a landfill, you know what I mean, the smell will take your breath.
The smell is bacteria and gas created by the mulch Garbage.
We have smelters that melt metal for compact recycling.
Why can’t we have a large Incinerator to cook this mulch to an ash before we bury it in our good soil, now that we have removed the Plastic items that would create pollution.
And the buried ash would take bad soil and convert it to organic soil over a period of years.
Now see how easy this problem is to solve.
Much ado about nothing.
Lets set a goal for this and set an example for the rest of this Nation.

By: art

art — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:56:11 +0000

“united we stand divided we fall” i don’t know who said that but it is a good saying.

By: Just An Old Soldier

Just An Old Soldier — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 17:08:46 +0000

For those that want the jobs and will tolerate Other People’s Garbage, if I give you a dollar, can I dump my garbage in your living room? That is, until it fills up. Then after that, how about your bedroom?

If I give you $10, will you accept toxic waste? From New York City? Philly? Chicago? Peking?

Some things are worth more than just money – like clean water. Asking someone to bury their trash upstream for a few dollars seems a bit insane to me. Especially when it’s from cities far from where it’s produced.

Seems like there’s lots of land out west called “desert” that might be more suitable and less impacting on the fresh water tables.

This is something that affects everyone. I remember Love Canal. I remember driving past ghost towns that were once thriving communities and are now ghost towns as Super Fund toxic sites. You really DON’T want that to happen here.

Doesn’t really matter if you’re retired, working, or unemployed and on or off the dole – POISON is an equal opportunity killer. This area has enough old toxic sites and problems without adding more new ones to them.

By: Thinker

Thinker — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 15:19:18 +0000

Leija:

The hearing starts at 9 am. My suggestion was a massing of cars in Flomaton to make a convoy for the 45 minute trip to Evergreen.

Hurricane park’s parking lot (Hwy 31 just west of the high school, turn right beyond the tennis courts) is the only safe area I can think of to meet for that. 7:45 or 8 am would be a good time to gather. This would be a TOLG (Task Oriented Leaderless Group).

By: Lejla

Lejla — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 13:43:22 +0000

@Thinker

Could you please provide more details…time, etc. for the Flomaton meet up on 10MAR?

By: Fred

Fred — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:50:50 +0000

My Outlook on this issue is that, the disposal of Garbage shouldn’t be a Federal issue, nor a State issue, other than staying within the bounds of the EPA.
Disposal of Garbage should be a County issue in all States.

Any Metropolis cities that have over populated to a point they have more Garbage than they can dispose of, has had County Commissioners over the years that have not done their job, by setting enough land aside for their Landfills.

It has taken these Cities many decades to grow to the populations they have.
There has been plenty of time to prepare for the disposal of their Garbage and the only excuse for this problem is Neglect (alias: “being stupid”).

One thing is for sure, it’s not the state of Alabama and Florida’s problem.

I suggest they tear down a few of those skyscrapers in these Cities and dig some holes where they were to put their Garbage in (TIP: make sure you put plastic in the hole so it won’t contaminate your water).

I understand that these Metropolis cities are willing to pay for the Slackens of their past County Mappers, but some things are not for sale.
For example, the purity of the water system in Alabama and Northwest Florida, is not for sale at any price.
Conecuh Woods llc needs to learn this.
They need to understand that we take a lot of pride in our waterways, and this thing is gonna get real nasty if they persist.

We were threatened by BP’s oil spill less than a year ago downstream, now we’re threatened upstream by this.
What a thorn in the Buttocks?

By: Name (required)

Name (required) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:07:52 +0000

“Does ever one in this area have jobs or are they are all retired.”

I try to imagine what it is that you are saying, and can only conclude
that you see opposition to this as some kind of slight on those who
seek employment?

So… just so I am clear on this, please tell me. Do you think it is
worth it for a few minimum wage jobs to poison the water supply
for thousands (or tens of thousands?) of people for a century or more?

I sure hope that is not what you are saying…