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Editorials
Let’s get it together
Administrative assistant John McCarthy said this week that the county’s dumpster sites are the messiest they have been in recent memory. He called the problem the result of “laziness.”
There’s certainly truth to that characterization, but to it could be added “lack of pride in community,” “lack of concern for others,” as well as a few choice adjectives and other bits of speech not suitable for publication.
Actually, it’s disgusting.
No one, certainly, enjoys visiting the dumpster sites. It becomes a particularly onerous (and odorous) task as the temperature rises, and with it the vapors wafting from those ripe bags which have been sitting in the sun as the inevitable trip is postponed for yet another day.
However, those trips to the dumpsters are one of the inconveniences of living in the country.
The alternative is door-to-door collection, a luxury which would be welcomed by the contractor chosen to provide the service, but which would probably not meet with favor among the county’s taxpayers. It's just not economically feasible.
Last year, a huge stink arose when the Board of Supervisors proposed that the present system of dumpsters scattered throughout the county be abandoned. That plan would have forced residents to travel to the county’s landfill in Amissville to dispose of their garbage. For people living in Slate Mills, or Boston, the thought of a half-hour drive to the landfill had them, understandably, crying “foul!”
So, the board dumped the idea, and for now it appears
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