County Denies Science;Citizens to Bear Costs

Ierminstituteseo03 Jun, 2022Technology

On Wednesday evening, April 27th 2022, the King County Solid Waste Division (SWD) held a virtual meeting to provide an update on the expansion and operation of the Cedar Hills landfill, an exercise that can best be described as attempting to put lipstick on a pig. The landfill, originally slated to close decades ago, has been given another 7-10 years via some ?sleight of hand? design, but as SWD Director Pat McLaughlin said in response to a question, no alternatives for now or in the future are being considered. The main thrust of SWD?s approach (also stated by Mr. McLaughlin during the meeting) is to ?reduce the 70% of what?s being thrown away that could be recycled,? something the agency has been unable to do for the past ten years, by their own admission. On the whole, the SWD?s efforts over the past ten years have amounted to running in place while falling behind. Failure to plan, after all, is planning to fail.