As you may know, at the beginning of "the Gay Nineties," CA passed a law mandating a 50% reduction of waste into landfills by 1995 and 100% by 1999. Our county was one of the few to comply on time and we did it by trucking it to Laughlin, NV!!!
The law also mandated that landfills be closed and sealed with clay. We did that too, along with the mandated "reduce, re-use, recycle" recovery facilities so the "handicapped" could sort it all out.
Then we tried to contract with a firm that gets huge "tax credits" for converting the methane from our closed landfills into electricity which the county could sell to help solve the energy crisis.
The local EnvironMentalist whackos WENT NUTS!!! They sued us to stop us on... you guessed it... ENVIRONMENTAL GROUNDS!!!
There's more absurdity involved, but I'll spare you as I learned from this that "getting involved" to "make a difference" and "make the whirled a better place" is absurdly niaeve(sp?) and stupid and I wish I'd never done it!!!
Finally... The CA Waste Management Board is a bigger political plumb to get appointed to by the Governor than getting appointed to the Golden Gate Bridge District!!!
And further more... if some of you brainwashed FReepers that think that recycling anything other than aluminum cans,(which I do) is somehow worthwhile, you better start thinking for your selves instead of leaning on all the crap you learned in public high school!!! (drove my chevy to the landfill levy, etc.)