[CPEO-BIF] Storm debris and toxic waste

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Amid Devastation, Mounds of Toxic Waste Vie for Attention

By JOHN SCHWARTZ
New York Times
December 20, 2005

EMPIRE, La., Dec. 15 - There is so much storm debris in Louisiana that 
some of it has to be destroyed again.

Bulldozers at an immense landfill work atop a mountain of tree limbs and 
the jagged shards of homes and lives here, pushing piles toward a line 
of enormous excavators. Each excavator works with balletic grace, 
grabbing a giant's handful and passing it toward a trailer-size grinder.

The manufacturer calls this machine the annihilator. It can chew iron 
sewer covers as if they were Necco wafers, and it transforms the chaotic 
mixture to something resembling mulch.

It can reduce the volume of debris by two-thirds. It is part of an 
effort by the Army Corps of Engineers to make the most of landfills that 
have to accommodate an unprecedented onslaught of debris.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/science/20clea.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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