Rather then expand the landfill, the city should do something to encourage people to recycle, If everyone and the city focused on recycling hardcore 80% of the trash that goes into landfills would be given a second life.

I get pissed at my roommates and I usually dig thru the trash to separate the recyclables before it gets dumped into the big blue trash can.

There is so much trash that can be reused and converted into new materials, compost, hell the city could actually make money.

All this would take is a little extra effort to toss the recyclable stuff into the right bin.

Keep in mind that the landfill is not within the City's jurisdiction. It's application is subject to County oversight.

WMI's latest EIR should factor recycling efforts and new guidelines for increasing those efforts to match target goals in the future. I don't think WMI's last application did a very good job accounting for such efforts and, as a result, WMI overly inflated it's projections for the need to expand. Just a cursory look at the figures shows that there may not be a need to expand the landfill at all and that it's presently projected 20+ year life could be extended almost indefinitely.

However, the big factor is WMI's consolidation of trash operations. What an expansion of Simi Valley's landfill would do is allow Los Angeles & other SoCal cities to close their own dumps and develop them into revenue-producing parcels. Just the opposite may happen here: an increase in the size of the dump could halt the City's plans for a west end business park and as much as $6M/yr in new taxes. It would certainly have an impact on surrounding property values and it would create much more traffic as thousands of trucks each day haul in trash from all over SoCal.

Conrad: While I agree that recycling is a worthwhile goal, the main problem with it right now is that it's not economically profitable. It's much easier and cheaper to make new stuff and just put the used stuff in the ground. In fact, we're not actually running out of landfill space across the country, and landfill technology is constantly improving. As a former professor/boss of mine and HuffPo contributor pointed out, "it's not only the right who loves to legislate morality, just look at laws designed to get people to recycle."

GS: I actually find it a bit absurd that Simi doesn't get a say in the expansion, since the majority of impact will clearly be borne by us. You know well that I'm not an opponent of expansion, but as a good conservative, I really don't like having outsiders determine policy for me, and would prefer that those most affected have the largest say. The fact that it is located outside the City's jurisdiction is a good example of where the law can actually be used to subvert justice.

Funny you should bring that injustice up, Owen.

Firstly, I'm also not an opponent of an expansion though I oppose the expansion that's being proposed, partly because this community will bear great costs and receive virtually no returns. There is a much better way to expand and a Win-Win solution can be found.

As for the injustice...when the landfill was put on line there was a lot of contortionists bending over backwards to make sure that that particular parcel was deliberately left out of the City's sphere of influence, though surrounding parcels are included. In essence,the City has NO say in the matter, thought the weight of the City's council members and voters could help pressure County Supervisors into supporting us.

Actually, the landfill IS within the jursidication of the City of Simi Valley. The City Council members just don't want to vote on it! Just wait. "G.O.D." will speak soon.

Stephani, do you want to expand & clarify...because the landfill property lies outside the City border and identified by agreement as NOT in the city's SofI. It is an unincorporated part of Ventura County and answers only to the Board of Supervisors.

In WMI's application for the expansion is a little tidbit of info that the community should be made aware of:

Prior to the early 1980s the landfill operated as a private dump and received about 30,000 tons of hazardous waste. Among that waste were PCBs. How much PCB? WMI doesn't know. It could be 1% of the total or it could be 10% or 30%...there's no way to know because records of what was dumped there are sketchy or they don't exist. So a three foot layer of clay was bulldozed over the site and the present landfill opened for business.

What's happening beneath that layer of clay? PCB's are highly toxic to humans and they're at the top of the list of EPA villains. In New York, GE's electrical plants near Albany released about 1,200,000 pounds into the Hudson River and contaminated a 200 mile stretch so badly that it was declared the #1 Super Fund site. Presence of PCB's halted the river's sports & recreation business for decades and virtually bankrupted many small communities.

If PCBs make up 1% or 600,000 pounds of the hazardous soup that sits beneath the existing landfill, Simi Valley risks the dubious distinction of being home to two Super Fund sites.

Owne I do see your point, I think at this time with the way technology is People are the ones that can help to make an impact on the trash that gets to the landfill, still there are things that can be done (Which I have seen experiments that certain counties have put into trials) such has a food waste receptacle this waste can be used as fertilizer.
I do think the city and state as well as the federal govt needs to step in to help with research on developing new recycling technologies to eliminate as much trash from being put into land fills.

I am very much against an expansion if it is primarily so other cities can dump their trash in our back yards. Does anyone know if the Simi Dump uses any kind of system to reclaim the methane and other gasses that accumulate as a result of the trash decomposing?

Gary,

Get a copy "G.O.D." - it's the county's "Guidelines for Orderly Development" I am surprised Babs never told you all about G.O.D.

Stephani

This is the same as the Waste Managment expansion in the same area? I've been against that for a loooong time. I also recognize Jim Dantona's connections with Waste Managment. Isn't he still a shareholder?

Mark:

Your assertion that Jim Dantona has connections to Waste Management and is a shareholder has me confused...

I strongly oppose the expansion of the Simi Valley landfill by Waste Management, and in particular the corrupt interference in local poltics by their political puppet-master, Mike Smith.

During the 2006 campaign for 4th District Supervisor, Jim Dantona knocked-on my door, and impressed me with his honesty, courage and committment to represent the people of the 4th District on the Board of Supervisors, not the special interests of multi-national, and multi-billion dollar global corporations, like Waste Management.

And in fact, Jim Dantona, using his own funds, exposed the secret back-room deals then going-on between Mike Smith, former Simi Mayor and paid Waste Management consultant Bill Davis, a John Magness, then Chief of Staff to defeated County Supervisor, Judy Mikels, to fast-track the expansion plans, without adequate public notice, review and involvement.

I've still kept my copy of Jim's hard-hitting mailer opposing the landfill expansion, exposing that corruption, and attacking Judy Mikels, John Magness, Mike Smith, and assorted other Waste Management goons, for their back-room deals.

So, with that as factual back-ground, what in the heck are your talking about? Also, the URL link posted to your name is a cyber-dud. When I click-it, I get the following error message, "Progress U4Org. - Page Not Found."

Is this just sloppy fact-checking, or are you bucking for the role of "cyber-Joe McCarthy?" Either way, if you examine your conscience, you should either provide proof of your assertion, or be a man and cyber-apologize for bearing false-witness..

Remember, "the whole world is watching and waiting" to see whether you have the facts, or you are just casting cyber-stones without any substance. It's up to you...

Edvard Radetzky

I highly doubt that Jim Dantona has any amount of shares of WM that would give him any type of controlling interest in a Corporation of that size, if he did he would have had enough $$ to win his election. Dantona is the owner of Governmental Impact who clearly has lobbied for Waste Management and land developers with an interest in Simi Valley. Dantona has lobbied for the companies that are big financial supporteres of our City Councilin particular Barbra Williamson, either directly or funneled through the VCRCC.

Per his Website:
Governmental Impact-Jim Dantona - Lobbyist-Corporate Clients includes but not limited to:

• Cognos Corporation (MA) • Colton Lee Communities
• Waste Management of North America (IL) • Fibertech
• Thales Navigation • Casden Development
• Unocal Oil • Mel Simon and Associates (MN)
• Bullard Corporation (KY) • Kaufman & Broad
• Greenpark Developers • Archstone Development (TX)
• Lojack Inc. (MA) • S&S Development
• Griffin Developers • Ira Yellen Development
• Dale Poe Developers • Merchant Bank of California
• California Assoc of Licensed Investigators • Traffic Safety Products LLC. (NV)
• Budget Rent a Car • Total Information Services (OK)
• Chevron Corp. • Chase Development Corporation
• Big Sky Ranch Development • United Taxi Inc.
• United Food and Commercial Workers

Add to Dantona's clients

Tony Strickland
California Charter Schools

Birds of a feather...That sure is revealing. Draw your own conclusion.. I wonder if the teacher's union would contiinue to support him if he ever ran for office again.

Not Dantona:

Of course they would.

Cause he was a teacher, he understands their daily challenges, pains and frustrations. And, he has and always will stand-up and fight for teachers. End of story.

His track record in Sacramento, and on the campaign trail in 2006, demonstrated that he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with working class teachers against do-nothing administrators, high-priced Superintendent elites, and Sacramento legislators, Democrats and Republican alike, who's collective actions have turned teachers into test givers and students into test takers.

And unlike Tony Strickland, who is the poster-boy for Charter-Schools, and unlike HBJ, who sold-her bureaucratic soul to gain the unanimous endorsement of most if not all of the high-priced, elite Superintendents of the School Districts in the Ventura County portion of the 19th SD, Dantona always has and always will work hard and long with teachers.

Furthermore, local teachers unions knew that Dantona's company, Governmental Impact, at one time represented all the folks you mentioned above (he's been fully transparent about it). Regardless, they were impressed that he could tell past business clients to got to hell when he felt they were advocating against the best interests of teachers and students.

Keep wallowing in self-pity, and self-doubt. Cause you don't know what you're talking about.

Diogenes O'Bannion

I hope you are right about Dantona, I don't know where you got the self pity idea or self doubt, that was weird, I was just pointing out who his associates were and who has been buttering his bread. Facts are facts.

I am soooooooooo disgusted with campaign finances for everyone who runs for office, there has got to be a better way to run campaigns. When I look at all the money that was spent on campaigns this past year, and hear the pleas of the community to stock the food pantries I just cringe. Maybe our politicians should run a campaign based on how much money they can raise for local charities.

Speaking of stocking up the local food pantries, maybe Brian can put up a thread asking for pledges from his readers. There'll be a lot more families looking to the food banks for a little help this year. Brian, if you're willing to name two or three local organizations, I'm willing to start with $200.

Diogenes,

I've been taking a bit of a blog break over here and I'm doing some catching up today. Your assertion that Hannah-Beth "sold her bureaucratic soul" to gain the support of all the school superintendents is just baseless.

One superintendent in the district made phone calls to every single superintendent on her own time to ask for their support of Hannah-Beth. She did this on her own initiative at night without being asked by the campaign to do so. She had no difficulty getting superintendents district-wide to agree to lend their endorsements.

She felt this strongly about Hannah-Beth's support for education. Many, many teachers also did precinct walking and phone calling for her. She had nearly universal support from the education community. There is nobody who will work harder for our teachers and our kids and she has amptly demonstrated her unwavering support for public education.

No matter how this election turns out, I know she will always be there for those of us who support the goals of public education.

GS:

Great idea.

You can count on $250 from me. That's all that a poor, working-class Democrat like me can afford. Especially since the conspiratorial combination of Bush-Paulson-Biden, Dodd and Frank caused me to suffer 35% reduction in my investment portfolio, since they were all more interested in bailing-out Wall-Street investment banks, and Delaware-based credit card companies, than us poor working stiffs on Main Street.

Maybe you should contact HBJ and ask her to get Park Skelton to donate some of the thousands of dollars he received in 15% placement kick-backs from a myriad of Democratic printing houses which churned out all those HBJ mailers non-stop during the last six weeks.

We have six voters in our house, and we got over 75 mailers from both HBJ and TS. I kid you not!!!

And speaking of TS, maybe Brian could also contact Joel Angeles and ask him to donate $1,000 or more to local food pantries.

After all, if poor 'ol Joel is required to perform community service hours because the courts judge his spirited ideological gymnastics in response to Loupy's verbal provocations during the TS-Romney fundraiser earlier this year violative of the law, he might give his eye teeth for a nice thank-you letter from Food Share, or other local food pantries.

Heck, GS! Who knows, maybe we can start-up some playful fund-raising competition among local
"Progressive Activists" and the "Compassionate Conservatives" to see who raises the most money for the hungry.

After all, it's for a good cause, and as the old adage goes, "..Charity begins at home.."

NostraDemus

Ok I am good for at least $300 before the end of the year. Brian what was the name of the organization that was founded for the young man from RHS that passed away...it was supposed to benefit Habitat for Humanity? I would like to make at least a $100 donation to that organization and also $100 to FOR THE TROOPS and $100 for Many Mansions.

For those of you that ran campaigns, you can make donations from your candidate committees.

That's $750 so far. How about Brian Dennert setting up the ground rules and letting his blog sponsor the effort? Brian, you in?

I just sent off a check for a hospital in a Tibetean plateau but you can count on $50.00 from me. I would like to send it in on Brian Dennert Blog's behalf. He is providing a great service.

Dio,
You are so full of Yourself and Dantona. I blame Dantona for HBJ's Loss.

Dio,
Your so right about Dantona. I'm a Republican Teacher who voted for Dantona and HBJ. I don't like TS but I'm tired of people blaming Dantona for HBJ,s Loss. In my opinion Dantona would of been the better candidate, but HBJ loss the race because it was poorly run.

I want to make something very clear here: Nobody in the Jackson campaign holds any animosity whatsoever toward Jim Dantona. In fact, they admire all his great work on behalf of Democratic candidates.

I believe this incessant anti-Dantona tirade is the work of our blog trickster Mongo trying to stir up trouble amongst the Dems. He was posting on my blog about the same time today.

Don't fall for it. We all worked very hard and had many successes in this county. I am still awaiting all the SD-19 vote counting before I comment.

Marie,

You're wrong about me posting here previously. This is my first time on this thread, but since you asked...

Obviously, I think Tony Strickland ran a much better campaign. He had great people working on his team and a far superior campaign manager (Parke Skelton has seen better days, let's face it).

It was a close race, as expected, but the difference was Tony's ability to connect with voters on his message of fiscal conservatism, while highlighting HBJ's glaring weaknesses in this area at the same time. This was the central theme of his campaign and it worked.

Mongo, your constant denials here hold ZERO credibility with me. And you know why. So if you get blamed for something you didn't do, (but I think otherwise) you have only your own poor behavior to hold accountable. The act that you jumped on here so quickly to deny rather proved my point.

This blog is so often just a bunch of bored adults playing head games with each other. My blog is the same way sometimes. I do try to steer the conversation toward issues when at all possible. And most of my friends skip the comments and just read what I write.

Parke's great and he has won a lot of races statewide. He ran Debra Bowen's campaign with not a lot of money and did superbly.

I will comment on the outcome of the race on my own blog when all the votes are counted. Until then I have nothing to say.

Not Dantona:

First of all, "Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa," for my too quick, and arguably too harsh response to your blog-posting regarding Jim Dantona.

A lot of people on this blog who are HBJ supporters and don't like Jim for a number of reasons, known only to them and God, have started unfairly attacking him again, and are attempting to scapegoat him for her likely loss to Tony Strickland. I don't think that's fair, nor am I going to stand for it.

After all, even though scapegoating may be the second oldest profession known to man in history, that don't make it right.

My wife is teacher, and long-time member of the California Teachers Association, and we both strongly supported Jim Dantona during the 2006 Supervisorial Campaign because he was a teacher, understood teachers, and fought for teachers, and will always fight for teachers.

And by teachers, I don’t mean Superintendents and Principals who make five and six digit salaries, and make teachers’ lives hell, because they won’t support them when they have to discipline students, deal with parents, and fill-out endless forms generated by mindless bureaucrats in Sacramento.

Further, I know first-hand that members of the local CTA political action groups, in the East County, like Arleigh Kidd, and Susan Selvaggio, strongly supported Jim when he ran in 2006. And both of these fine teachers, as well as others, have given their blood, sweat, and tears, not to mention tons of their own dollars, in support of quality education for countless students. You can bet that after exercising "due-diligence" in checking Jim out, he more than passed their tests, and earned a solid A+ from local teachers for his commitments to their needs.

Finally, if you have questions about Jim's commitment to the teaching profession, and public education in general, don't take my word for it, call him yourself. His phone is (805) 583-1014.

Good luck and thanks for joining in the efforts to put local dollars to better use by feeding the hungry this winter, than enriching both Democratic and Republican campaign gurus and printers in far-away Sacramento and San Diego.

Diogenes O'Bannion

BTW thanks for bringing up WMI stock, I checked it out and it looks like a strong buy, low P&E and decent dividend and yield, I think I'll buy. The stock is down 30% with the market but heck we still have garbage in a recession and now that Obama is in office he will be giving green incentives and tax breaks to businesses.

Not Dantona:

Sorry to disillusion you, but affluence, not recession, begets effluence, (or in this case garbage).

If you check out disposal tonnages at the Simi Valley landfill reported by the ten cities in Ventura County, you'll find that they are down by 10 to 20% over the last year. And given the deepening recession, the short to medium-term economic outlook for WMI stock is not promising.

Who knows, given such bleak economic news, maybe Mike Smith will truck on up to Sacramento soon, and ask Arnold and the State Legislature for a taxpayer-funded bail-out. After all, if AIG can get a Federal bail-out, why can't WMI get a State bail-out??

Given existing and likely economic realities in the near future, absent a tax-payer funded bail-out, the only way that WMI can make sufficient money to operate the Simi Valley landfill as is, let alone expand it, is to cut its rates and offer volume discounts to communities outside of Ventura County to dump their trash at the Simi Valley landfill.

Got trash, Los Angles, Carson, Bellflower, South Central, and other assorted Los Angeles, Orange and yes, even Riverside and San Diego communities?

Well, to paraphrase Jedd Clampett, "..You all come-up to Ventura County, kick-off your shoes, and and dump your putrescent packages here right now, ya hear?.."

Can't you see the welcoming committee for all those garbage trucks from Los Angeles County and beyond, Mike Smith, Bill Davis, and perhaps even Peter Foy. They all roll-out the regulatory red-carpet to welcome the garbarage flight from the south into Simi Valley and Ventura County.

Iron Feliks

I thought Dantona was an outspoken opponent of the landfill expansion. Am I wrong about that?

I think if Mongo and all of his various iterations each put in $50.00, the charity of choice will be well set for winter.

Katie:

Are you suggesting that Mongo Flamo has cyber-dopple-gangers?

As the Mr. White, the Daily Planet Editor used to say in the Superman television series, "..Great Cesar's Ghost.."

What a frightening possibility....

NostraDemus

Marie,

I need neither your approval nor your endorsement of my credibility. Your own credibility is in pretty bad shape, if you ask me. Many have commented about your constant, blatant partisanship and petty remarks on this blog as well as your own, especially in regards to the Strickland-Jackson race. So, no lectures, please. They hold very little water here.

You appear very bitter that Jackson has obviously lost. So, there's no point in even discussing the "whys" with you.

Marie,

I need neither your approval nor your endorsement of my credibility. Your own credibility is in pretty bad shape, if you ask me. Many have commented about your constant, blatant partisanship and petty remarks on this blog as well as your own, especially in regards to the Strickland-Jackson race. So, no lectures, please. They hold very little water here.

You appear very bitter that Jackson has obviously lost. So, there's no point in even discussing the "whys" with you.

Marie - I think I'll wait until the senate votes are all counted as well. And whoever wins has a whole history of mail pieces to live up to sitting right next to my fax machine. Imagine that both candidates aren't partisan! We are so lucky! Sacramento will really be different now.

I'm still doing the happy dance for all the local races that were won and look like they are going to win!!!

ND, I know - you are shocked! Hard to believe people are A) so duplitious and B) think other people are unsuspecting.

Believe me, it takes no super powers to discern the truth. And just a pooper-scooper for all the inevitable personal attacks.

I am neither a blatant partisan nor have I made petty remarks anywhere.
I campaigned for my friend and I corrected inaccuracies made here about her record. Nothing wrong with that. I write a blog, which is opinion, and am expected to give it.

I am not bitter nor am I prepared to comment before the vote counting is done.

Katie:

Shocked, no. Interested, yes.

There's no doubt that I'm not feelin the virtual political love flowin between you and Mongo Flamo, and as a dynanmic growing centrist, it pains me no end.

It's a little bit like cyber-political soap opera voyeurism - kinda like, "As the Republican Elephant Turns!."

I can only imagine what the VCRCC meetings were like when both Leslie and you were summoned to the show-trials and forced to endure "values-clarification" tests by the Republican procurators.

But be of good cheer. As Hamilton was fond of saying, "For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution..�

Ciao Commendatora

NostraDemus

ND - to be honest, there was never a problem at the meetings. There was a series of secret meetings that took place in the dark of the night which Leslie wasn't invited too and I wouldn't have been because I was just there as a volunteer. The expectation was that I would stay (I was one of the few that actually did anything) when Leslie was voted out. However, I took one look around and left along with 1/2 dozen others. Since then maybe another l/2 dozen or so have left. Most of those that are in now either work for or are related to the Stricklands.

So the meetings when I was there were unenventful and ran on time. I don't even know if there are meetings anymore - certainly there aren't full votes because they tend to backfire.

Here's more fodder for your voureurism - Leslie and I started off on negative footing (I wasn't happy with the job being done by the California Rep Party). I didn't really know her and assumed she was part of the "machine". She proved herself to me over the years and I have the utmost respect for her. Lots of integrity and truthfulness. And she is nice - much nicer than me!

Marie, funny I've been accused of being bitter too! And by the same person(s). And you would not believe the comments and voting habits that have been attributed to me.......

Katie:

Well, as Scripture says, "...The truth will set you free!.."

Thanks for the inside scoop on the seditious shenanigans that went on in the back-rooms of the Grand Old Party right here in River City.

Since one good secret deserves another, based on personal experience, local Democrats on the VCDCC are not much better.

Perhaps one day, we'll have a Grand Old Centrist Central Committee here in Ventura County, and the political debates can be grounded more in variation of spectrum of viewpoints regarding political issues rather than the plethora of purgative personalities..

Well, as they say, "..Hope springs eternal!.."

Ciao Commendatora

NostraDemus

Hey guys and gals,

Too much time on everyone's hands!

These campaigns are history now: Time to commit your beginning efforts to the next campaign or starting to work on a book.

Mike Chandler,
You are correct. Dantona was and is still in opposition to the landfill expansion.

Shocking that Dantona still lives on in the hearts of his two minions and couple of enemies. Fact is he lost the campaigns, not once, or twice, but three times in a row. He is an admitted baseball fan and I'm sure he realizes that he is now "out". That said, Dantona couldn't raise any money and wasn't able to get the support of the Democratic Party. Jackson raised $4,500,000 to run her campaign and may or may not have won.

With all do respect, Mr. Dantona is a private citizen at this point. Posters would do well to exercise some restraint on going after him or other past candidates for that matter.

Agree or disagree with him, like him or dislike him, leave the guy alone.

Scott,

I agree with you.

Did you remember the old SNL skit where even after the election a candidate kept attacking the other candidate?

Seems to me that most of the recent attacks against Dantona on this blog seem to be coming from fellow democrats. Jackson was the candidate that was chosen by local dems to go against Strickland and, as far as I can tell, the party faithful rallied around her. All of this hand wringing and second guessing is pointless since we don't yet know the outcome of the election, and even if HBJ eventually loses it isn't proof that Dantona would have fared better. If you really want to see how well he would do against Strickland the best way to find out would be to have him run in 2012. That would be a fun election. See you in four years.

So even if recycling isn't profitable it's still important to reduce, reuse, and recycle right? Anyone try freecycle yet?

WM will get this expansion because they bought and paid for Foy and Strickland. Foy and Strickland could careless if Simi Valley becomes a big toxic waste dump and takes all of LA's trash as long as the campaign money and perks keep flowing their way.

NostraDemus and Mongo Gibson singing at the campfire was long overdue. Two great minds were bound to come together.

Scott,
I agree with you, get off Danton's back people. Although I'm a Republican I was quite impressed by Dantona in the Sup's race. I think those who are still criticizing him realize his connections go much higher than local electeds and for some reason that bothers or scares you guys. I personally believe Dantona is not controlled by handlers like so many other candidates including TS and HBJ. He may be a Democrat but one who is truly a moderate and can reach accross the aisle. After all alot of Republicans had to vote for him for him to finish so close in the Sup's race. In his race against Foy he came across as someone who definetly knew the issues even if I didn't agree with all his positions. He seems like a very independent thinking candidate. Candidates like Dantona are really needed to give voters a real choice. My hat's off to him.

Two great right-leaning minds, shall we say?

Prost II:

Never met Mongo Flammo, don't know who he is, and based on both his and my postings, there are many issues we probably disagree on, and some that we may agree on.

What's wrong with that? After all, isn't that the essence of political compromise in a democracy?

Further, I'd commend you to the joint statement issued today by President-Elect Obama, and Senator John McCain, in Chicago. To wit, "..At this defining moment in history, we believe that Americans of all parties want and need their leaders to come together and change the bad habits of Washington so that we can solve the common and urgent challenges of our time."

If it's good enough for Obama and McCain, it sure is good enough for Mongo Flammo and NostraDemus. Or are you one of those who is more comfortable with Prost's way or the highway?

Ciao

NostraDemus

ND,

Slow down before you assume that all the names you are arguing with are the same person.

Many people post under many names on my blog, so I understand the confusion.

Brian:

Non ci sono titoli che contengano la parola/frase.

Mille grazie

Ciao Commendatori

NostraDemus

Translation?

I heard on the news the other day that supermarkets, restaurants and other places that sell perishable food throw away about 25% of the food they sell due to expired dates and rot from sitting on the shelves too long.
This would be a great source of raw materials to use in the production of Bio fuels, or fertilizer. I would love to find out what percentage of the trash that is thrown away in a normal household is recyclable in some way. (When I say recyclable I am referring to those that can make money)

Do you understand that the Simi Valley Landfill is a toxic waste site that contains cancer causing chemicals? It's one thing to be ignorant enough to take a tour youself and be exposed to unknown concentrations of carcinogenic chemicals. It's quite another thing - an irresponsible thing - to recommend other's join you. Read up on landfills before you spend time on them. More importantly, stop encouraging people to visit the Simi Valley Landfill or any other dumpsite. Children are especially at risk if exposed to toxins because their immune systems are not fully developed.

WMI's own preliminary report admits that there's an untold amount of toxic waste lying under the landfill and that some of it are PCBs, in amounts that may exceed the concentration that shut down a 200 mile stretch of New York's Hudson River for decades and opened up lawsuits that seem to have no end.

Admitting that the records of such waste are sketchy, at best, should not be grounds for ignoring the potential dangers that waste might pose. Now that the water district has announced plans to start tapping ground water again, these toxins may haunt us like the Rocketdyne meltdown never did.

If you love your children, you'll take notice of what's happening uphill from their drinking water.