Here’s an interesting N&R letter to the editor regarding the White Street landfill, dated Dec. 18, 2005, from Gary Wegner of Greensboro. Note Wegner’s ultimate hope:
Thank you, City Councilman Mike Barber, for having the courage to put politics aside and call the argument for closing of the White Street Landfill exactly what it is: a political one. It doesn’t take a CPA to conclude that keeping the White Street Landfill in operation is the most cost-effective method to deal with Greensboro’s garbage issue for the next 50 years.
While it is true that we have already invested heavily in a transfer station, continuing to use the White Street Landfill has to be more cost-effective than exporting our garbage to an out-of-town landfill, which at any time might decide it no longer wants our garbage. The high cost of transporting our garbage also would be eliminated.
Could this be the beginning of a new era? A return to common sense on the part of our City Council?
Update: I can’t help but notice that Greensboro Politics has removed this post on the White Street issue. It was a pretty basic post, pulling entirely from the N&R story. Ryan Shell had the lonk at the bottom, and after Roch Smith simply commented “plagarism,” Shell moved the N&R credit higher. No big deal, it’s just strange.
