Garbage...

Another Riverbend garbage dump hearing last night.

Lasted until almost 11pm.

This hearing is to rezone the dump to EFU, Exclusive Farm Use.

Yeah, right.  Like that land can ever  be farmed again.

A travesty and an insult to real farmers and real farms.

Feels like living in a Kafka novel or Alice making her way down the rabbit hole.

For those who don't live around here, this will be amazing, and a little difficult to understand.

Waste Management, the largest international garbage corporation in the entire frickin' world,  is asking to rezone the dump to Exclusive Farm Use so that they can then expand the dump onto land that is currently in farm use. 

Can this possibly be real?  Or did George Orwell make this up?

As I said in my testimony,

 "Let's get this straight, this rezoning of dumpland to farmland will allow farmland to become dumpland." 

 Expansion of the dump onto some of the best farmland in the entire world on the banks of the South Yamhill River.

And the Yamhill County Commissioners will fall all over themselves to approve it.

And it will go to court.

In the meantime Waste Management continues to dump 1000's of tons of unsorted garbage daily 

on the banks of the South Yamhill River, 

which flows into the Columbia River, 

which flows into the Pacific Ocean.

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This is Oregon.  

This is the Willamette Valley

This is Oregon's heralded wine country.  

This is lunacy.

And the video below is a sad testament to what happens to garbage when it enters the earth's waters.

A sad testament to the state of the earth and the oceans.