Let's just say, we've been furiously grabbing garbage for several hours now. The packer has been packing and packing, but can only do so much. If we don't do something we will have garbage blowing out of the top of the truck all over town. It's time to take a ride in the country. We run the packer blade all the way back, and if we haven't gone too far with things, it should seal everything safe in the truck. This is important because the police frown on littering. When we get there, we will have to run over the scale. For some reason they must keep a careful account of just how much stuff comes out here. A big reason is money. The County charges by the pound for garbage. But we have to pay them.
This seems somehow wrong. I mean, this is our garbage, and we are delivering it to them. They don't even have to go get it themselves. But be that as it may, we will have to sign a ticket, and they will bill the city. Threatening to just keep our garbage won't help.Now we'll travel down a dusty road, cross a creek, and eventually wind up on top of a hill that used to be a big hole. After they dug the huge hole, great sheets of some kind of rubber looking stuff were spread out on the ground, then garbage, and more garbage. There is a system that collects the water that ends up in here, and pumps it out. That's not my problem and I'm not sure what they do with it. It's probably really exiting, but, like I said, that's not my problem.
This is where the birds are. It's cool to see the buzzards hanging out in the dead trees. There weren't any around when I had the camera, so you'll just have to take my word for that. We will dump our garbage out on the ground along with everyone else's, and unless it looks like there is something good in there, they will run over it and crush even more with these big crusher things. This is one parked. It's probably tore up. All this kind of stuff seems to tear up a lot. We keep our mechanics busy too.Finally they will cover all the garbage with dirt. And that will be that. Out of sight, out of mind.
I'm not sure why I wrote all this stuff about garbage, and I only scratched the surface. I do have a life other than this, but someone once said to write about what you know, so I maybe I got this out of the way now.
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There's place in winston where all the buildings are catty-whumpass and the parking-lots are wavy, like a fun-house mirror, i never knew what the deal was till asked Doug one day... he said that part of town had been built on the old dump. I guess they are better at that sort of thing these days... thanks for giving us all an insider view of the whole thing. very interesting.
W- Do you remember when they had to build a new dog pound, 'cause the old one was sinking into the old landfill they built it on ?
sounds familiar... this is the same sort of thing i guess... that part of town is full or car rental parking lots and storage facilities, i guess they figured those type of things wouldn't be so hard to build over again if they needed to.
Here in South Florida the landfills are plainly obvious. It is flat here you know. So when you see a hill - you think "AH! Landfill!". Then you kick the AC on recirculate quickly so the stink does not creep in your car. Unless it is too late.
They turn old landfills into parks. I want to move next to an old landfill turned into a park, so that when the tsunami alerts go off I will have a safe place to run to.
In the Big City near here, they made a park like that. One of the soccer ladies chased a ball into a dark hole one evening. When she struck a light to see, she blew herself out of the hole. This really happened.
PIKE TWP -- The state is cracking down on a smelly landfill in Stark County.
Ohio EPA Director Chris Korleski just announced that he is recommending the Stark County Health Department deny an annual operating license for Republic's Countywide Landfill.
Korleski says his agency has determined that the landfill is not in substantial compliance with Ohio's environmental laws.
Neighbors have been complaining for months about a terrible odor coming from the landfill.
Recently, the EPA asked an expert to examine the site.
He told the state that a fire, burning deep beneath the surface, is likely to blame
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