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Michigan is worse, thousands of Canadian garbage trucks go across the border to dump garbage in eastern Mi. Canada is 90% undeveloped wilderness but they bring their trash to Michigan
This is not uncommon for locales to ship their trash to other states.
The landfill used to be owned by Anderson County but in the 90s it was sold to private owners, changed hands a few times and has grown ever since.
Typical MSM bull$#!t. Why not "...from as far away as Massachusetts"? Guess MA wouldn't bring as many clicks as NY can.
I can not uderstand why the rest of America is not buring their trash in a eco friendly way like we do here in Southern Maine.
ECOMAINE
MAINE’S LEADER IN SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT
More than ONE BILLION pounds of materials recycled since 2006
100,000 megawatt hours of renewable electricity from Maine’s trash per year
Reducing greenhouse gases AND the volume of trash being landfilled by 90%
WASTE-TO-ENERGY
The next level of the solid waste hierarchy is WTE. ecomaine’s waste-to-energy facility was constructed in 1987 and came-online in 1988.
The WTE is comprised of two Steinmuller massburn design boilers with capacity to handle 550 tons per day (tpd) of MSW. The plant processes 170,000 tons of waste annually with 43% from municipal sources, 40% commercial source and 17% from spot market. Over 2200 tons of scrap metal is also recovered annually. The boilers continuously combust MSW and the construction of welded membrane waterwalls are the nexus to generate steam and turn the turbine. ecomaine’s annual electric production is 105,000 MW hours. The waste-to-energy process is a renewable source of electricity for which RECs are procured. In addition, the efficient reduction of MSW to ash allows disposal practices at ecomaine’s ashfill well beyond 2038. The combined ash is a mixture of bottom ash and flyash in a 9:1 ratio with approximately 45,000 tons ash disposed at the ashfill annually. ecomaine has two sets air pollution control technology (APCT) systems – (carbon, urea, lime slurry, ESPs) and duplicate continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS/CERMS/COMS) to assure compliance with regulatory air requirements.
In fact, removal efficiencies of pollution controls consistently demonstrate minimal impact of ecomaine operations on the surrounding environment. ecomaine has continuously maintained its ISO 14001 certification for its environmentalmanagement system (EMS) at all three facilities: WTE, recycling and landfill/ashfill.
If there is a steeply differential rate charged to make local garbage close to free I could see it being tolerated.
***taking in out-of-state trash from as far away as New York. ***
Didn’t NY use to dump their trash out in the ocean? I remember an old OLD movie (Who’s Minding the Mint [1967]) in which this was done.
I still remember when NY emptied all their confiscated guns into Coast Guard barges and dumped tens of thousands of them into the sea.
South Carolina is the state that elected Nicki Haley as governor and continues to reelect Lindsay Graham and Tim Scott. Not to forget Mark Sanford, the governor prior to Haley and Lindsay Graham’s predecessor, Strom Thurmond, who the state continued to reelect until after he reached the age of 100.
Apparently the people of the state are satisfied with long serving politicians who betray them while living next door to trash imported from other states.
So what? Trash is trash and it’s employing many people and creating tax revenue.
Where I live, we do not allow out of county trash in the landfill.
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