Time has come to talk trash responsibly

Wake up and smell the landfill. Let’s talk trash.

As I understand it, both Cheney and Medical Lake continue to deliberate whether or not to sign with Spokane County’s new solid waste system services. Prior to 1991, Spokane County’s garbage was land filled within the county. As populations and industries flourished, more coal slag, plastics, leaded paints, pesticides, oil, as well as more food wastes, paper, packaging, and other disposable consumer items mixed together to form oozing leachate.

Eventually, the leachate percolates into ground water, carrying contaminants that were in the garbage....