Quotes about landfill (16 Quotes)


    We really want these issues taken care of. As far as the wind, (the landfill should) start closing down much earlier in the wind events. We expect these matters to be resolved.

    It's a bittersweet victory because people are ready for curbside this year. We have a crisis on our island. We are running out of landfill. Why not adopt it this year There are recycling companies ready to go.


    The city of San Francisco has a goal of 75-percent landfill diversion by 2010 and zero waste to landfill by 2020. According to a recent waste characterization study, 3.8 percent of garbage from residential collections was animal feces mostly from dogs and cats, although other animals could have been represented.

    And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.


    we continue to spend fortunes on an stupefying array of distractions supposedly designed to make us happier than Liz Taylor at a wedding Cosmetics that contain everything from the placenta of unborn goats to a pound of pig fat mixed with volcanic ash and 19 secret ingredients from the rain forest diet products to remove mountains of blubber gained by stuffing ourselves because we are so damn miserable, and miserable because we are so horribly fat cosmetic surgery in every place from facial to other cheeks mind-numbing cruises to paradise luxury boats that never leave their luxury marinas hard drugs soft drugs alcohol anti-depressants uppers downers frenetic gambling to hit the big time jewelry that is too expensive to wear image marriages destined to last all of six months mink-lined designer toilet seats lottery tickets tobacco products we know will kill us and billions of tons of electronic and plastic and toxic junk that add nothing to our lives and create only clutter, pollution and landfill.

    Its a good alternative to just throwing your Christmas tree in the trash. In a landfill, they just bury it. Thats an anaerobic environment and, without oxygen, your tree could take a couple hundred years to decompose. This way, it gets put to good use right away.


    Up until recently, the state of California really wasn't doing anything about recycling of monitors. The landfill issues along with our reputation as a company were drivers for me.


    I think if we're going to have to landfill trash, and I think we basically have to, we might as well get the upside for it and dedicate that upside to improving the environment in so many different ways.

    I think a moratorium probably is legal, and we should probably for a short period of time impose a moratorium so that we don't permit any additional landfill permits for the time being, so we don't exacerbate the problem.

    There's only been a couple of expansions approved since the moratorium took effect and they all had approval from the host community. We want there to be a purpose to any kind of landfill expansion. We need to use our land properly.

    The electronic recycling event is important because it will divert the electronics from going to the landfill. Even though you can come out and drop them off at the transfer station, this will be convenient for residents while they are out shopping and returning and finishing up Christmas.


    My grandfather bought my family property in the early 1900s. I remember how it was before they started dumping here. It's bad because they never had the money to take care of the landfill properly.



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