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im. Any discussion oi recycling the trash would be “dreams only,” until the economic picture changed, he said, adding that the “last recession blew those dreams out of the basket.”
Foreman claimed that the “smell” at the Fairfax landfill on Interstate 66 isn’t there today because the landfill operation has been corrected. Any smell now could only be attributed to the reclamation area where they are using a soil conditioner (sludge from sewer treatment plants). People play ball and picnic next to the landfill in Fairfax County, Foreman continued,*^ “something they could not do if the smell still existed.”
The problem with the Fairfax landfill in the past had been the “old way” of compacting the trash. “We prescribe complete compaction so that no air or water can get to the compacted waste, permitting no leaching or gases. Foreman said the Updikes have both
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