From international topic experts who reviewed the proposed 2018 King County Solid Waste Management Plan, the conclusion was unanimous:
“The entire plan is written in a way that it is very clear how one is supposed to decide, despite inviting the public for comment. It is likely that, according to this plan, the vast majority of King County citizens should believe: landfill is cheap, safe, environmentally friendly, and that everything else is expensive, dangerous and concerning. This is simply not accurate nor true. Experts state the opposite of what the plan is advocating, but facts ignored.”
The current proposed Solid Waste Management Plan is in contradiction to its own mission statement.
Since 2005, no untreated waste has been deposited in landfills in Germany, not because of the lack of space, but because of the recognition that the environmental and economic risks posed by any landfill are too high. In addition, too many valuable resources are lost in landfills. At the time, Federal Environment Minister Jürgen Trittin described it as “an end to the practice which created innumerable contaminated sites for future generations — that of burying waste in landfills and forgetting it.”
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One should not be surprised if representatives of the U.S. landfill industry tell these misleading stories about the situation in Europe. After all, they have so far made their money in the U.S. by sending cheap and untreated waste to landfills which presumably cause environmental hazards. Without a full-cost accounting system, landfills in the U.S. aren’t factoring in these future expenses. Those costs will continue to add up over decades as long we continue on this course.
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The climate that we live in has changed a lot and the consequences are horrifying
Oceans are being constantly polluted, and it is one of the biggest issues
Wild birds and animals need us to help them survive after the ecological crisis