Texas landfill laws are among the weakest in the nation. Over the past 12 years the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has allowed the size and height of landfills to increase dramatically worsening problems such as water contamination, noxious gases that create terrible odors, erosion, and windblown trash which ruin community life and depreciate property values. Texas Campaign for the Environment (TCE) is working with Texans, in particular people who live near existing or proposed landfills to strengthen and enforce trash rules.
The long-term solution is to reduce trash by dramatically increasing recycling and making products more recyclable by making producers responsible for the end of life of their products, which creates the bottom line incentive for producers to design for recycling.
Trash to Treasure (Dallas Advocate)
Landfill Will Top Mount Bonnell in Height (Austin Chronicle)
BFI landfill to expand despite neighborhood opposition (KVUE News Austin)
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Founded by Lois Gibbs who fought toxic contamination in her Love Canal community in the 1970s, CHEJ works with local groups to win environmental justice is from the bottom up through community organizing and empowerment.
Center for Health Environment and JusticeBlog of the Fort Bend and Brazoria County group opposing the expansion of the BFI landfill in their area.
Citizens Against the Blue Ridge Landfill ExpansionEnvironmental engineer Dr. Fred Lee has been working since the 1960's on landfills and has written extensively on many topics.
Dr. Fred Lee's Scientific Research on Landfills
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