[CPEO-BIF] Katrina's garbage

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Katrina's garbage rates a Category 5

Region struggles to reduce, recycle storm's wreckage

By Andrew Martin
Chicago Tribune 
January 4, 2006

NEW ORLEANS -- One of the best views of New Orleans these days is from
just east of town, on top of a mountain of garbage that provides a
commanding view of the skyline.

The once-closed Old Gentilly landfill is humming with activity, and in
the four months since Hurricane Katrina laid waste to the Gulf Coast, it
has grown about 100 feet higher.

So much garbage was left behind by the storm that the federal government
estimates that if stacked in 1-yard cubes, it would wrap around the
Earth more than once. And the crews that are picking up the trash aren't
close to being finished.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0601040240jan04,1,5399177.story

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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