In California, during the fence-building frenzy of 2009, I met a Border Patrol agent and project engineer at Smuggler's Gulch — a deep canyon near the Pacific Ocean where the Department of Homeland Security had dumped in an estimated 2 million cubic yards of dirt and then fenced in the landfill to prevent access from Mexico.
The more the city recycled, the longer it would have access to the landfill.
Among them were instances of bribes and kickbacks, and a scheme in which Mr. Vollaro was to pay $40 a truck load — including all the loads from the Schiavone jobs — for unlimited access to a landfill project in New Jersey known as Endcap.
Besides, transfer stations are also more convenient for both MSW collectors and individual users since they are closer and easier to access than the landfill and incinerator sites.
In terms of doing the landfill, you've got easy access to the dredge sites that will provide the material - so you're creating a greenfield site," he said.
On May 28 , 2013 the Alamogordo City Commission granted Fuel Industries, a Canadian entertainment company, six months of access to the landfill to film a documentary about the burial and to excavate the dump site.
It has always acted as a kind of dumping ground for the ills of London, bearing the brunt of smog-producing industry, landfill sites and, latterly, vehicle access to the capital.
Instead of sorting through haphazard trash heaps and landfills, the pickers would have access to the cleaner scrap that comes straight from households and often brings a higher price.
"There's a lot more we can do to not have them either just sitting in basements for a very long time and they continue to lose value, or being disposed of in landfills and we just lose access to those resources," Jason Linnell, NCER executive director, told VICE News.
Congress has awarded the city $14.2 million for road improvements, including an access road across the landfill to the bay, which will allow for construction of the ferry terminal.
