Show NATIONWORLD The Salt Lake Tribune A5 Sunday January 26 1992 1 Garbage by Any Other Name Is Better Unseen THE WASHINGTON Tr MILNG WASTE a ) Capitol through Alexandria trains are neither unsightly nor smelly The refuse essentially is $p24w 11 1 1111 1111F C4-N"N -- solid waste from Bergen County NJ to landfill in Charles City County Va via Conrail and CSX rail systems In operation electric generator at Rochester Waste from Cape Cod to rail trash movement Mass via Bay Colony Railroad First modern-da- y El Niunicipal C trash-burnin- g 18-mi- move via Va to Smith Gap landfill planned Norfolk Southern of trash from many communities in the Shenandoah Valley To keep trucks off mountainws back roads through rural 33-mi- communites Waste from Seattle to a lanLifill in Gilliam County Ore via tkion Pacific To keep trucks off scenic !ighway through Columbia River Gorge In operation Waste from Los Angeles to the Move Desert via the Santa Fe and to various points on the Fouthern Pacific In planning stages Potentially one of the largest waste moves in the world El PSludge from Passaic County NJ to landfills in Texas and Illinois via & North Western and Southern Pacfic rails In operation El Waste from Long Island to Illinois via Conrail Chicago Western and Chicago & Illinois Midland rails In operation & North n New Ynrk to the Midwest Several options being investigated for movement of sludge And waste wtan dumping of sludge in the Atlantic is 2 Potential major route ended in and communities becoming angrier at truck congestion on highways and around landfills waste companies are turning to railroads trains now run from New York and New Jersey to Texas Illinois and Virginia and from Seattle to rural Oregon Plans are under way to transport most of the Los Angeles basin's trash to the Mojave Desert or to Long-distan- o choo-choo- - I 0 ) - Appio-4- I I ' I' VtMaine Nov - ND Mont — tk s0 ! 1 i 11 wy'rp -- - I "In Neb Colo li Kan o kis '' WV 1 ts' Inas b La : Va Ky 1 077 ' mass 0 0 DC Conn DI CI Md Ity x-- 0 RI LI : Source: Natiomi Solid Wastes Management Assooaton 1 N N : NJ ‘ti Pt Ohio A la i Krughtadder Graphic innolmmonomm States Are Starting to Raise Stink About Getting Other People's Trash All day Terri Moore hears the rumble of garbage trucks and sniffs fragrances from the landfill near her Centerpoint Ind home Sometimes trash flutters by: canceled checks from Newark NJ charge cards receipts from New York suburbs a letter to someone in Boston "It's interesting to see what people throw away" said Moore Interesting too to see where people throw it For the past few years the egg shells and coffee grounds from East Coast garbage have wound up in faraway landfills of Indiana Ohio West Virginia and other states Now garbage is going even farther Officials in the Plains and even the West are fearful their states' landfill space will be filled with other people's garbage "There's no reason a state shouldn't be able to deal with its own waste instead of shipping it 2000 miles" said Ken Alkema director of the Department of Environmental Quality in Utah where a new landfill is soliciting trash from the East Coast Congress has considered legislation to give states the right to ban garbage Several Mid equipment that protects freight the sealed rail container — can be used to conceal garbage from the publiC eye — and ire — and at the same time provide a alternative for moving garbage long distances Every evening eight flat cars each carrying four containers leave the sprawling Bergen County Baler Transfer Station at North Arlington NJ Each of the 32 containers about half the size of an average truck trailer carries as much trash as the average individual creates in 27 years high-tec- h 1989 cost-effecti- Railroads once paid little attention to the special needs of garbage leaving that detail to the shipper but soon realized "If you end up with homeless solid waste whose name gets in the paper?" said EL Wefel Jr manager of business Conrail's group Waste companies and railroads have discovered that the same e western legislators wrote colleagues in support of new laws ar"The prairie is America's breadbasket not its wastebasket" But those who move and bury the trash warn such a law could disrupt traditional agreements between states and create a chaos of homeless garbage "Big exporters would have to find emergency locations to put their waste" said Allen Blakey a spokesman for the National Solid Wastes Management Association "Landfills that were closed would have to be reopened Itt could be really disruptive" No governmental agency tracks the natiowlide flow of municipal garbage but the association estimates 15 million tons of trash have gone interstate for each of the last few years — about 8 percent of the 180 million tons annugenerated in this luntry states and the DisForty-thretrict of Columbia export garbage 42 states import it But the association said a majority of traveling trash comes from two states New York ships an estimated 79 million tons to 13 states as far away as Florida Indiand Illinois New rsey sends off another 55 million tons to 10 states THE ASSOCIATED PRESS solid waste out-of-sta- trainload of 5000 tons of Baltimore sludge that was rejected by Louisiana Mississippi and Arkansas and became a national joke before returning to Baltimore in late solid-wast- f)‘ ' mid-199- abandoned mines More than trash is moving Dried New Jet sey sludge is hauled in sealed containers to the Midwest and a considerable amount of New York sludge probably will move long distance by rail when New York ends its ocean sludge dumping by July 1 New York is considering several rail routes including shipping sludge to midwestern plants that would convert it to fertilizer Railroads and the major waste companies have learned a lesson from the days of the "poo-po" a dripping smelly i 1 - ors United States "A lot of landfills back East are running out of capacity so they are evaluating whether it is a cheaper alternative to ship their waste somewhere else" said Bill Sinclair Utah Department of Environmental Quality Salt hazardous waste branch manager -- The West has more capacity so the East looks to the West" Cost is a major factor Where many of Utah's landfills charge $8 per ton California charges $50 to $70 per ton and New York $200 to $300 per ton said Dan Bauer Salt Lake CityCounty Landfill manager To Mr Bauer's knowledge no other Utah landfills are accepting mid-1990- Ei Roanoke r' of private dumps throughout the move via CSX rail from Waste in Montgomery Courry Md an truck transfer station at shady G Are to proposed incinerator at Dickerson s to keep trucks off rural roads Planned fo g Wash - --i 41110p East Carbon Development Corp's landfill is one of a handful began operations 1989 n Paula Huff By 1 only 0 will soon be a lucrative for Nick Sampinos A Price attorney Mr Sampinos and five others hope to open a 2400-acr- e private landfill in East Carbon City this summer They want garbage from throughout the United States to fill the dump at about $25 per ton Nine cities in northern Utah County are the only takers so far but Mr Sampinos said other West Coast communities are sniffing at the offer And there are bound to be more ‘ n import rr-- En States that export only States that have no activity THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 1 "stealth" garbage: out of sight and out of mind stuffed in a railroad container that masks its cargo The shiny aluminum containers designed to travel on flat cars or on a truck chassis have cryptic markings with the only real clues to their contents being the name of the company in small lett-T- s and the letters "BULKBOX" " We have people calling sometimes saying 'What have you got in those ears?' 'Those are really ears' " said Steve L Watson assistant vice president for inthistrial and solid waste of CSX Transpoftation which owns the rail line over which the Bergen County trash travels for the last part of its journey Few environmental issues have become as emotional as the interstate hauling of garbage A rising tide of trash is spilling over state lines as East Coast urban areas run out of landfill space and out of environmentally acceptable options for disposing of their waste in the area or transporting it long distances to a decreasing number of approved landfills The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that 14000 of the nation's 20000 landfills closed between 1978 and 1988 and half the rest will close by 1995 some under fire from state and federal officials For years trucks and barges were the only means of transporting municipal solid waste and sewage sludge But with ocean dump- ing of sludge banned - ‘E I1 I 1 1:3 States that import and export To Fill Private Landfill business the Va I N Wanted: Garbage CURRENT AND PLANNED RAIL MOVEMENTS OF TRASh AND SLUDGE 44 d it Interstate Import export of municipal solid waste (1969-90- ) POST Every day nearly all the trash created by the 840000 people of Bergen County NJ is carried down the East Coast to a giant landfill south of Richmond in Charles City County Va Although sight of the portation Department in Washington past Crystal City Va and neat-lookin- 2!i!)::1!i--P-1(--tfulostl- e out-of-sta- THREE DAYS ONLY! 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