Trash. Part 1

i asked a friend where he thinks is sticky zip lock bags takeout food boxes and other trash and up he smiled sheepishly and said trash while why cit winds up in assorted trash met trash from all over la county except the city of la and gorges on the nation's largest operating landfill twenty hills new releases on a recent morning trash trucks queue up at the entrance san pedro serve the la county sanitation district says they want a dump their loads before the landfill raises its green flag signaling another day we are limited to an average of thirty two thousand and one through that day of political committees besides to his section of the landfill with it that's b l

y and so much of what we see is at least in theory recyclable all that cardboard milk jugs plastic toys and that's the tragedy of trash so much of it is unnecessary it's either recyclable biodegradable are preventable indeed every year california used two point two billion beverage containers more than a third of them especially the plastic ones don't get recycled water bottle rosalie me lay is a member of the california integrated waste management board so you would think that people would be infected fight to do the right thing in reply call that yes we

have become such a faraway for friday that we need to change your habit also going to california landfills each year nearly six million tons of food almost four million tons of lumber and more than a million tons of paper hacienda heights resident mary valero is all too aware of how much we waste she lives next door to the landfill near what used to be a scenic canyon it's now a four hundred foot tall mountain of trash although artfully disguised with earthen landscaping valera complains about the trash especially plastic bags that blows out of the landfill and the more than two thousand trucks that spewed diesel soot into her neighborhood every day that really bothers me that i see santa monica trash coming into the deal when i'm out there and i see trash trucks from other cities can tammy in my area so there it in the pristine i get very upset the sanitation district's monitors the landfill to ensure it meets all environmental and

health standards but environmental groups say that doesn't mean it's been nine they say the liner is used to prevent groundwater pollution will eventually leak and even the best landfills only captures seventy five percent of the greenhouse gas methane they email here in coca of the city of la is recycling department says that makes recycling a good investment if we end up polluting our air our ground water it's going to cost billions of dollars to clean up later on people think they can throw things away and it won't come back to them but it well when de hills landfill has seven years before its full and closes when that happens dumping in la county is expected to get more expensive and that could give a boost to recycling else is that still at nine point three kpcc