ossibly in your back yard. These new landfills must be monitored. The catch is that they are not monitored by a responsible agency, but by the guy who owns the dump. What are the chances that the guy who is making millions is going to report any problems? Government, for some unknown reason, refuses to use their authority to force the industries to properly dispose of their wastes. The underlying reason may be because they have the power and money. There are new recycling, neutralizing and high temperature incineration ways of disposing of eighty percent of our wastes safely. It seems as though our government should stop ignoring our health issues and help put a stop to the industrial poisoning of our country. Since the Love Canal has been deserted, the state and local governments are trying to resell the homes. They won’t admit to the health problems at the canal. They will only acknowledge a concern for pregnant women and children under two. Because of this lack of acknowledgement families could be moving back into these homes and bearing the same medical and emotional problems that 500 families have already gone through....
