But I really hate it when people don’t know the difference between a “Waste Transfer Station” and a “Landfill”
Especially when the person’s employer buys ink by the barrell
Foam cups and plastic grocery bags are on a list of proposed bans in a plan Seattle city leaders are trying to develop to avoid building a third landfill.
The green idea is the latest sparked by the city’s zero-waste strategy.
The list of proposed bans came about after residents in the Georgetown neighborhood objected to a landfill being built there.
Forget that the city is thinking of “banning” plastic grocery bags and styrofoam cups. This is Seattle and it is what I’ve come to expect from these assholes.
Seattle was the first metropolis to pass a law creating “Trash Inspectors” and giving the city the power to take your house away if you refuse to recycle, after all.
A “Landfill” is a large whole in the ground which trash is thrown into, then treated, then covered. Repeatedly. In a few years, you can power large sections of cities with the methane that is captured there. In the past, this place was known as “The Dump”.
A “Waste Transfer Station” is a spot on the map where your waste collection service, and you if you have a truck, brings your waste to be separated and shipped to the appropriate facility. If it is trash, it goes to that other place: The “Landfil”. If it is wood, paper, cardboard, glass, steel, aluminium, tin, plastic, drywall, or concrete, then it gets gathered up and goes to the appropriate recycling facility. If it is grass clippings, tree branches, leaves, stumps, it too gets gathered up, chomped and mulched and sold to some sorry sap who needs grass clipping, tree branches, leaves and stumps for his “garden”.
The city wants to build a new “Waster Transfer Station” in Georgetown. Not a new landfill.
The “big whole in the ground” would not be fun to live near, the most minor of reasons being the constant coating of bird shit all over your car from the never ending supply of crows and seagulls (both protected under Washington State law, so you can’t shoot them). I could understand someone objecting to the creation of a “Landfill” in Georgetown.
The “Waster Transfer Station”, on the other hand is just a bit noisy, due to all the trucks coming in and out.
However, if the uber-hipster eco-socialists who now inhabit the Georgetown neighboorhood really cared about recycling and “saving the planet” as their stupid bumperstickers state, then they wouldn’t object to a “Waste Transfer Station” being placed at the north end of Boeing Field.
But they don’t. They’re just pissed that they couldn’t afford to live on Capital Hill or in the Columbia City neighborhood.
Someone in a coma could notice that the two “Waste Transfer Stations” the city currently operates are overworked and have passed their capacity long ago.
And it doesn’t help when the media, who are supposedly learned individuals, can’t get the two terms straight.
“If it is grass clippings, tree branches, leaves, stumps, it too gets gathered up, chomped and mulched and sold to some sorry sap who needs grass clipping, tree branches, leaves and stumps for his “gardenâ€.”
You know, you can get some of this stuff for free when the station that creates it has too much of it. Just bring your own truck. I’ve been using it for years on my lawn and garden and it works great. I love me free stuff…
And yes, huge difference between Landfill and Transfer Station. I wonder if someone got too happy with their on-line thesaurus. Whatever happened to proof-readers?
I can tell Phil is excited about this topic, as there are several typos in the original post.
The smell of waste transfer stations is not trivial, and I would not want one near my house. Other than that, I agree with this post entirely.
“And it doesn’t help when the media, who are supposedly learned individuals, can’t get the two terms straight.”
Since when did reporters get anything right? Honestly, I would like to know what the hell they study for four years to get a degree in journalism. They can’t spell, have a limited vocabulary, can’t understand statistics, don’t know how to do research, so what did they learn in college?
A technical point, sir. A landfill is a designed and (supposedly) regulated hole in the ground while a dump is merely a hole.
“And it doesn’t help when the media, who are supposedly learned individuals, can’t get the two terms straight.”
I am surprised and delighted when one of the “supposedly learned individuals” of Seattle’s print media spells his own name correctly or gets the same finger count on his own hands twice in a row.
You see, I’ve seen these allegedly credentialed maroons at work.