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Traditional practice questioned
“More and more, the traditional practice of waste burial as a disposal method is being questioned,” said PEC president Bob Dennis, a resident of Rappahannock. “PEC believes small rural counties will find it prohibitively expensive to operate the kinds of landfills required by new regulations and that regional alternatives to landfills will become increasingly attractive. Since much waste will remain after even the most aggressive and creative waste reduction efforts, lessening the hazards by treating wastes — through incineration, neutralization or some other process — is vastly preferable to trying to contain the waste in or on the ground for the very long term.”
Last fall, Rappahannock’s Solid Waste Management Advisory Committee echoed PEC’s conclusions, recommending “All solid waste should be transported out of the county and any operating landfill should be closed at the earliest possible date.”
For the short term, the committee advised negotiating with another county to accept, by April 1, all of Rappahannock’s solid waste. If a county willing to accept Rappahannock’s trash cannot be found, then a contract should be negotiated immediately with Harrisonburg to take solid waste to the resource recovery
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