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Originally Posted by tophcfa
Same thing happened with the local landfill we used to use up north. Problem with that is that they now have to truck everything a long way to a different dump. Trash removal costs went way up, not to mention the increased carbon footprint required to truck away the trash. On a more positive note, they are opening up a dog park on the old landfill/solar farm site.
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They would have had to find a new landfill anyway since that one was full. They can't expand indefinitely afterall, and this one was right on the bank of the Quinnipiac River. The WPCA would've had a few words to say about it if they tried to enlarge the landfill into the river. As would the residents of the state, among others.
I'll never forget when they shut it down for good - they had to spray some kind of thing over the entire property, and the resulting stench was nauseating, even from a couple blocks away when the breeze blew in the humid summer.
The entrance is still used for bulk trash collection but it all goes into dumpsters and gets hauled away.
We had a whole different part of the town for recycling and yard waste; chipped wood was available for mulch for free to anyone who wanted to shovel it off the mulch pile, and the pile was outside the gate of the recycling yard so anyone could drop it off or take it whenever they wanted.