Melosi 20-epilogue
finding sites for sanitary landfills--the problem was old
sites were filling up and new ones needed to be established
NIMBY: not in my back yard
environmental racism--facilities that release dangerous pollution
tend to get located in poor areas
waste to energy incinerators also faced a lot of opposition (South
Carolina example)
- pollution
- what are the regulations (how are those regulations
going to change)
- what does the technology to reduce pollution cost
- finding a site--neighbors don't want it
- handling the waste--storing it before it is burned and
disposing of the ash
- how will the price of electricity change?
Recycling:
- will people separate recyclable material
- should there be deposits to encourage recycling of
bottles and cans?
- is there a market for the material collected? (eg.
will people pay a little more for recycled paper)
- does this distract attention from reducing waste?
- German
example
New awareness of the problem of hazardous waste
Conclusions:
what kind of system you build depends on your theory of
disease/harm
the public good was the basis on which systems developed
the problem of outdated infrastructure
so long as they were city services, cities could use them to
control development