A Heap of Sorrows

A controversial New Orleans landfill closes, but eco-disaster still looms

Posted by Bricolage at 12:05 PM on 10 Aug 2006

Earlier this year, still reeling from the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin signed an order allowing the creation of a massive landfill for household debris. Its location next to the country's largest urban wildlife refuge and a Vietnamese-American community raised hackles of all sorts, and last month, Nagin agreed to let the landfill close. But in stepped landfill operators Waste Management, Inc. with a lawsuit, which will be heard in court tomorrow. Wayne Curtis explains the mess.

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the biggest shareholder of waste management is Bill Gates.is he awre of what they're upto? one would expect he would have a bit of an enviromental conscience!?!

by howeird at 1:03 PM on 14 Aug 2006

Today's Heap of Tomorrow's Sorrows...

Landfills should soon become the subject of a much larger public debate. And thereafter, the topic of many great future laws of the earth's governance. And here's why...

We mine copper, where - from a copper mine. Aluminum, bauxite. Steel, iron ore. Paper, woods. Glass, sand. And the list goes on. When enough of these resources begin to thin out and we realize we're needing more - where're we going to find them. In a toxic soup, of course. Needless to say, all the other toxins that are mixing together with them will create such a caustic solution that much of it will be useless and poisonous.

If you can make Napalm from gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate (borrowed from a line in Fight Club, the movie), then what are we making with everything we're combining today. Ladies and gents, it's just as important not to purchase some things as it is to recycle the things you do purchase. As for me, I'll be thinking about it when I see you out there, riding on my bike, of course. - JD

JD & Kelley Howell of Eugene, OR visit us: Cut20.blogspot.com

by Howell Haus at 1:46 PM on 14 Aug 2006

heap of sorrows

what are you talking about?

by amarct at 5:44 PM on 14 Aug 2006
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heap of sorrows

Chef menteur means literally Chief liar...

by amarct at 5:46 PM on 14 Aug 2006
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Someone help Nagin.

Mayor Nagin definately needs some environmental advisors! Any volunteers??? Every time I see these kind of stories I am in a numbed state of disbelief-haven't we advanced enough as a society to put together a plan to deal with disposal of waste properly. Its just doing something on a macro level that we do on a micro level every day. It just takes more coordination.

by Maria at 6:08 PM on 15 Aug 2006

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