THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, October 11, 1995 TAG: 9510110009
SECTION: FRONT PAGE: A8 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 27 lines
Two letters Sept. 27 dealt with the problems of trash and recycling. It appears that recycling is becoming bureaucratically entrenched, and its abolition would be fought for sure regardless of its cost to taxpayers.
Trash, on the other hand, could have a win-win situation. A facility could be built adjacent to the Norfolk Southern coal piers and rail yards to transfer trash from ships and barges from cities up and down the East Coast to empty coal cars to haul the trash to the strip-mine-scarred areas of West Virginia. This would be an application of the 30-miles-square by 300-feet-deep reference in the letter from Myron O. Wilcox.
This would be good for the railroad in that cars would not be returning to coal fields empty and would provide employment in the strip-mined areas in transferring the trash from the railroad to the dump sites.
HARVEY McD. WILLIAMS
Virginia Beach, Oct. 1, 1995 by CNB