Tuesday, May 26, 2009

On a Garbage Truck

I saw this today on the side of a big green garbage truck:

"Our landfills supply over 17,000 acres of wildlife habitat."

This reminded me of the time when Pearl T., who lived near our county's Kiefer Landfill, brought a plastic rat to a Board of Supervisor's meeting and left it sitting on the podium while she spoke against the landfill.

I suppose rats could technically be called wildlife.

2 comments:

Katherine Plumer said...

And gulls...

Jan Blawat said...

I don't mind seagulls. They come in the fall to clean up the river when the spawning salmon die, landfills are just fast food for them, not habitat.