The glaring thing to my mind is the transportation cost-- fuel, machinery, road damage,... -- to get a mountain of garbage of such scale that it warrants building a giant factory on top of it.
And one of the biggest costs of the transportation is that, by hauling people's rubbish beyond the horizon, that educational agenda is doomed. I can't imagine education being effective unless disposal is all local. Andrejs Andy Goodell wrote: > I guess my question is which is a better use of $100 million? Building a > facility with long-term maintenance and staffing costs to handle our > waste, or educating the public on how to produce less waste while > helping the companies producing it to use other methods or materials for > their products. > _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
