EDITORIAL BRADLEY LANDFILL, R.I.P. GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD TRASH.THERE were no tears shed in Sun Valley on Saturday Saturday: see week; Sabbath. when Bradley Landfill accepted its last shipments of trash. The closure of the half-century-old dump marked the beginning of a welcome development in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- the end of putting landfills in densely populated pop·u·late tr.v. pop·u·lat·ed, pop·u·lat·ing, pop·u·lates 1. To supply with inhabitants, as by colonization; people. 2. areas. The question now turns to what happens next. Waste Management, which operated Bradley, wants to build a trash-hauling and recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. center on the site. Neighbors are understandably uncomfortable with the idea, but clearly it's an improvement over a dump. And done properly, it could provide the elusive answer for how to deal with the city's trash in a clean, modern, environmentally appropriate way. So good riddance to Bradley's bad trash. We look forward to a valuable discussion about Sun Valley's future. |
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