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America’s Largest Landfill

Imagine piles of trash as tall as some of Los Angeles’ highest skyscrapers. According to CNN in a report published earlier this year, the Puente Hills Landfill offers just that. Many moviegoers have viewed the startling scenes in the film Wall-E, where the lovable robot ascends and descends gigantic towers of trash. However, what is most startling is not the imaginative minds at Pixar Studios, but rather the fact that this scene is inspired from reality – in a way. At the Puente Hills Landfill, they process the extreme amounts of waste that come as a result of having the city of Los Angeles next door.

According to CNN, “six days a week, an army of 1,500 trucks delivers a heaving 12,000 tons of municipal solid waste from the homes and offices of L.A. County’s millions of inhabitants.” To put it in other terms, that is 24 million pounds of garbage being thrown out onto what used to be, “a dairy farm.”

While the convenient process of having your garbage brought out of sight and out of mind may appeal to most people, the reality is that the garbage goes somewhere – somewhere that used to be beautiful and scenic. Also, reprocessing waste that has not been recycled properly is incredibly tedious work. One issue is thought to be that people need incentives in order to better process their waste, however, that is an absurd thought. The reward for processing waste more efficiently should be that the planet, and specifically this country, are destroyed at a far lesser rate. To compare us with other areas such as Germany and Scandinavia, “landfill now constitutes less than 5% of total waste management.” For a place that calls itself the best and greatest, it practices the least efficient and most outdated form of waste management. It is literally a process of throwing your garbage on the ground and forgetting about it forever – hardly a practice that belongs on the resume of the “greatest country on earth.”

• May 16, 2012
• By: Charles Hollenbeck

If you were in a Bucket Truck, I wonder if you could see this massive landfill?

Police in Bucket Truck Saves the Day!

STAFF REPORT
Published: Friday, September 7, 2012 at 9:26 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, September 7, 2012 at 9:26 a.m.

Sheriff’s deputies watching from atop a bucket truck caught a man breaking into a [FPL] facility, authorities say.

Deputies arrested Cornelius McClern, 37, of the 2800 block of Pershing Avenue, inside the FPL facility on the 5600 block of McIntosh Road.

Recent crimes in the area prompted the surveillance. McClern tried to pry open the front door of the storage building about 3:20 a.m., reports noted, while deputies watched from their [Bucket Truck] perch. When he couldn’t get inside, McClern walked around and entered the building through another door.

A stolen vehicle found nearby is believed to be connected to McClern.

McClern has a criminal history in Sarasota, Manatee and Pinellas counties with 53 felony charges dating back to 1990, including arrests for burglary, grand theft and trafficking in stolen property. He was released from prison in March of this year, but arrested in Manatee County for another crime in June.

McClern was booked into the Sarasota County Jail Thursday and charged with burglary of an occupied structure, possession of burglary tools and criminal mischief.

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