Friday, August 12, 2005
Landfill glut
How often have you heard people cite the shortage of landfill space as an example of how we are running out of land? Everyone remembers the story of the barge that went up and down the East Coast looking for a landfill that would take New York City's garbage.
The reality is that the waste disposal industry is suffering from a glut of landfills. If you live in Portland, you pay high garbage collection fees because Metro rakes off most of the money to pay for its 100 or so planners. But elsewhere waste disposal fees are kept low by new technologies that allow waste managers to put far more garbage in one landfill than they ever thought possible.
The above link goes to the print version of the New York Times article on this subject. If you want the illustrated version (including two photos and a chart), go here.
The reality is that the waste disposal industry is suffering from a glut of landfills. If you live in Portland, you pay high garbage collection fees because Metro rakes off most of the money to pay for its 100 or so planners. But elsewhere waste disposal fees are kept low by new technologies that allow waste managers to put far more garbage in one landfill than they ever thought possible.
The above link goes to the print version of the New York Times article on this subject. If you want the illustrated version (including two photos and a chart), go here.
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