trash dump

During this past weekend I drove to the waste management dump in Reno. The Reno dump transfer station is situated right on the river. If you haven't ever been there it is literally 5 feet from our fresh drinking water. I can only imagine what seeps into the ground and flows down to the river. Everything you can think if that you have ever thrown away in your trash. Anything from soda, to bleach to oil from our automobiles. How about antifreeze from our cars and trucks, laundry detergent, who knows what else. I can't imagine a worse place for this location, There are so many places surrounding Reno that are still close enough to keep the trash before it is loaded up to be sent out to the landfill in Lockwood. Even at the Lockwood dump, it is still less than a mile from the river. The local transfer station downtown used to pay you for your recyclables like plastic and cardboard. Apparently they stopped this practice last year due to rising recycling costs, so what they do now is take the product to a different facility to lower costs. I guess this makes sense until the costs of recycling increases more than what you can sell the final product for. Anyway dropped off trash and drove away, thanks again.