[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Interesting take. In the PR of Massachusetts it is unlaw to dispose of bottles, cans or newsprint in a landfill, due to a law championed by the wife of former RINO Governor Bill Weld (herself a Roosevelt cousin of some sort). When I good-naturedly chided my poor town clerk collecting for increased price dump stickers that we should get a discount because of all the money we were saving on recycling, she told me that BFI charges $5,000/ month to transport all this stuff to a landfill in Michigan. ("If you seek a beautiful penisula, look around you.")

The reason it is so hard to site a landfill is NIMBYism and a quasi-religious fever on the part of maladjusted people on a messianic ego trip trying to save the World from the evils of flush toilets and modern sanitation.

[mewzilla]

We know people who've had their well water contaminated by the local landfill. There're good reasons why you wouldn't want one next to you. But they do have to go somewhere. The best thing to do is fill them as slowly as possible. Usable landfill space is not a renewable resource.