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In article <Jym.23Nov1994.1100@naughty-peahen>, Jym Dyer
<jym@remarque.berkeley.edu> writes:

>Greenpeace warns Europe:  "Beware of Waste Management, Inc."

Golly Gee Whiz!  Nice to know Greenpeace is so worried about Europe and
poor Hispanic Communities in California.  So, why won't they bother
responding the very same situation happening right here in the San
Francisco Bay Area . . . . in a poor Hispanic, Portuguese, Scandanavian
and Scottish community!

We've got an organization called Future Tech who is dumping sludge in the
super-sensitive Delta, and no one will pay attention because they call it
"agricultural fertilizer."  Dust clouds that spread for miles?  That's
okay - it's agricultural dust.  Middle of the night truckloads being
dumped in the boonies - who cares?  Under the table payments to deliver
untreated waste water to remote sites?  Not worth investigating.  So what
if the operators are spreading sludge on areas that no longer are owned by
the license holders - it's all going to be turned into a reservoir pretty
soon, anyway.  Let the County clean up the land!

Waste Management is NOT the only company that is endangering our
environment in the monumental money making schemes of waste disposal.  All
across the country, similar companies are slipping into the backwaters of
rural communities and conspiring with large land owners to circumvent
existing laws for enormous profit.  And local residents can get no one to
listen, especially the large environmental organizations who seem to only
concern themselves with cases of major newsworthiness.  Over and over, the
government and private agencies tell us that "nothing can be done."

I've left messages on this board about our own situation, and the great
majority of responses I've received have been to tell me in not so polite
terms to stop my hysterical rantings and leave room for IMPORTANT
discussions.  But, I've heard from enough other concerned individuals to
realize that this situation is happening all across the country, and we
fear that in just a few years, we're all going to realize how important
this problem has been, and it will be too late.

So, I'll ask again, while so many of your are thinking of this Greenpeace
alert.  Will more of you concerned and serious environmentalists PLEASE
give more of your attention to this very insidious and growing problem of
so-called "Biowaste management!"  Some of us are becoming all too aware
that this is an environmental timebomb, quietly ticking away.