{"id":4786,"date":"2010-08-02T08:15:07","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T07:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2010-08-09T09:11:40","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T08:11:40","slug":"oil-soaked-waste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2010\/08\/02\/oil-soaked-waste\/","title":{"rendered":"Oil-soaked waste worries landfills\u2019 neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/2010\/08\/02\/2376609\/oil-soaked-waste-worries-landfills.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4787\" title=\"100806_bp\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/100806_bp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>At a sprawling landfill some 50 miles from the oil-spotted coastline,  trash bags brimming with tar balls, oil-soaked boom, sand and tangles  of sea grass are dumped. Though workers in the largest  environmental disaster in U.S. history wear protective gloves and  coveralls as they labor across the Gulf Coast clearing beaches of oil,  the mounds of debris they amass meet a pedestrian fate: burial in the  same landfills that take in diapers, coffee grounds, burnt toast, yogurt  containers, grass clippings and demolition debris. Since the  first trucks began rolling in June, nearly 40,000 tons of \u201coily solids\u201d  and related debris have been sent to municipal landfills from Louisiana  to Florida, sparking complaints \u2013 and in one case, enough consternation  that BP decided to stop dumping in a landfill. \u201cThey tell us, \u2018It\u2019s not bad, it\u2019s not hazardous,\u2019\u201d said  Christopher Malloy, who borrowed a sign from his wife\u2019s tanning salon to  announce his opposition to using the Pecan Grove landfill in  Mississippi\u2019s Harrison County. \u201cOil in Gulf \u2013 Bad. Oil in  landfill\/wellwater not bad? What!\u201d reads the sign in his front yard,  less than half a mile from the landfill where 1,300 tons had been  disposed before BP \u2013 facing community pressure \u2013 agreed to curtail  dumping. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/2010\/08\/02\/2376609\/oil-soaked-waste-worries-landfills.html\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence | Country: USA |  Company: <a href=\"..\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/ethicalquote-public\/?value=11\" target=\"_blank\">BP <\/a> | Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/2010\/08\/02\/2376609\/oil-soaked-waste-worries-landfills.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a sprawling landfill some 50 miles from the oil-spotted coastline, trash bags brimming with tar balls, oil-soaked boom, sand and tangles of sea grass are dumped. Though workers in the largest environmental disaster in U.S. history wear protective gloves and coveralls as they labor across the Gulf Coast clearing beaches of oil, the mounds&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-4786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bp","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4786"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=4786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}