Which Way, L.A.?
Landfill Space
Landfill space is running out and recycling is under attack. So what are going to do with all this trash? The Southland generates 100,000 tons of garbage a day. Can we cut back before we are swimming in our own waste?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readPaul Relis: Member, California Integrated Waste Management Board. Chairs the market development committee for the board. J. Winston Porter: President, Waste Policy Center. Was an Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator for solid and hazardous wastes under Regean. (He is the one who came up with the 25% diversion.) J.P. Elmann: President, City of Los Angeles Board of Public Works, which includes garbage collection and recycling programs. Jim Dodenhoff: Area vice president, Browning Ferris Industries an international waste management company. Councilman Richard Alarcon: Los Angeles Councilman representing the 7th district, the NE San Fernando Valley. Was instrumental in closing the Lopez Canyon landfill. Rick Daniels: President and CEO of Mine Reclamation Corporation. Robert Roman Jr.: Vice-president, EMLOC, the Eagle Mountain Landfill Opposition Coalition. David Mares: Project planner for the Eagle Mountain Landfill, with the Riverside County planning department. Josh Meyer: Staff reporter for L.A. Times. Ralph Hallow: Senior National Correspondent, the Washington Times.
