"Ever wonder where your trash goes once it leaves the curb?" Well, we decided to find out... Ethan, Daphne, Aunt Lisa, Harrison, Aunt Trisha, Gramzie & I had quite the learning experience going on a tour of a near by landfill. We started off with an educational component of how landfills are constructed...actually feeling the different layers that are used and learning about all the engineering that goes into such a structure. Then off onto the tour bus we trekked...yes in the heat of the summer on an open windowed short-bus, up the same path the trash trucks go. In fact, we watched several trucks actually dump their waste; hear the bird banger fire & had our bus volume weighted on the truck scale/radiation detector. (We had to skip over the "tire wash" station since the windows were open.) The landfill was not as stinky as I would have thought...they have a deodorizer truck continuously spraying and all in all the place is pretty organized...NOT at all what I expected. Interestingly enough we even saw the medical waste heap; which I had found interesting--it gets heated to 500 degrees and then chopped into tiny pieces so that their are no needle stick incidences---I always wondered what happened to that stuff I placed in the red trash cans at work! Another factoid to top it off Pioneer Crossing takes all the medical waste from NYC. It is quite a business. (I am pretty sure I was more excited about the whole experience than Ethan! Ethan was more interested in the learning centers sand table that had to scale equipment found at the landfill---things we had never seen before!) It makes you think twice about all the garbage you create. After all that they even treated us to a pizza party and parting gifts for the kids...
