With any landfill with a liner it’s not a question of IF the liner will leak, but WHEN.The Puerto Ricans could get more landfill airspace by shredding their waste with industrial shredders and improved compaction. They could also benefit by methane gas recovery systems,but both technologies are expensive. Investments the leftist rulers of that island may not be willing to make.
And corruption. The whole problem with PR is that it has been a Dem fiefdom for decades now, under corrupt Dem rulers who often leaned their politics in NYC.
The SEIU (yes, them) also has a lock on the government policies and performance at all levels, which guarantees inefficiency and corruption.
They’re still finding warehouse of rotting “aid” delivered to PR after their hurricanes of a few years ago that was never distributed but stashed away by local politicians to be either sold or given only to favored persons. But they’re so inefficient they never even got that done.
Infrastructure and services …including waste disposal…destroyed during the hurricanes have never been rebuilt or restored.
PR could be a gem of a place…if it didn’t have Dems in control.
Most Puerto Ricans probably agreed with the comedian’s description of their island.
They could send their trash to Virginia. Everyone else does. /s