Waste Management Proposal Stalled
A proposed mammoth landfill to serve six states and 51,000,000 people stalled in South Carolina's Scotland County when the county commission decided to stop talks with Waste Management (WMI). Scotland County of Tomorrow (SCOT) declared victory but then dedicated themselves to working to stop the proposed landfill in bordering Richmond County. WMI has been allowing both counties to compete for the promised $2.1 to 3.2 million income.
"It's hard for me to visualize a 300-foot mountain of trash on a piece of Sandhills," said SCOT's co-chair Bob Davis after a packed courtroom meeting which many feel drove the commission to a special meeting a week later to call negotiations quits. Davis claimed to have 3,000 signatures of people opposed to the landfill.
Citizens concerns included the dangers of damage to water supply, farmland, air quality, home values, county roads and the physical health of county residents. Leader Helen Livingston reported that "our organization is going to continue to assist with reduce, reuse, and recycle information and funding sources, and with research into how the county can find ways to dispose of its's own waste."
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