Regarding the Waste Management Kettleman expansion project [story Oct. 7]:
The industrialization of the United States has provided America a high standard of living. These successes have not occurred without costs, however, including dangers to the public health and the environment resulting from exposure to commercial, industrial, mining, agricultural, and consumer waste by-products.
Our ability to prevent and control these waste streams, as well as to conserve and recover the hazardous and nonhazardous components associated with these wastes, is a key factor in the nation’s ability to protect the public health and the environment. Issues impacting hazardous waste management must receive priority attention if these goals are to be met.
We rely on engineers to develop the technology to prevent and minimize wastes generated by commercial and industrial processes and we also rely on these professionals for designing the methods and systems for reusing, recycling, storing, treating, disposing and remediating waste.
Without the proper disposal of the above listed wastes, we, as citizens of this great country are setting ourselves up for environmental Armageddon.
We must support the businesses that properly dispose of their waste as well as those who take on that responsibility when it goes to its final resting place.
Guillermo Varela
Lemoore
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