A Dirty Job; It's Not Easy Finding a Place for the Garbage Produced by a Quarter-Million People.
Monterey County Weekly › August 06, 2009
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Steve Johnson knows a few universal truths about trash. "Everybody wants to get rid of the trash, but they don't want it near them," he says. "They don't want to pay too much and they want someone else to deal with it."
"Every time we've gone and looked at a potential site," Johnson says, "the closest neighbors immediately say, 'You shouldn't place it here, you should place it over there.'"We really don't feel that there's a need for a new landfill anywhere in Monterey County," he says. "It's not just not in our backyard, it's anywhere in the county."See the full content of this document
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A Dirty Job; It's Not Easy Finding a Place for the Garbage Produced by a Quarter-Million People.
Steve Johnson knows a few universal truths about trash. "Everybody wants to get rid of the trash, but they don't want it near them," he says. "They don't want to pay too much and they want someone else to deal with it."
Around these parts, that someone else is often Johnson, general mana...See the full content of this document
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