Many people are not comfortable with the concept of competing for garbage, believing that it poses a threat to the environment. All this stuff about a capacity crisis was more myth than reality,'' one expert told the Journal. In addition, environmental regulation and court rulings kept changing the rules of the game, further confusing elected officials. When county officials said the state should not have approved their landfill applications, knowing that a glut was building, state officials said it wasn't their job to second-guess the counties. If Georgia state officials are only there to rubber-stamp what local governments do, and not to provide a wider oversight that takes into account and avoids developing problems county officials can't see from their perspective, they might as well let a computer do the job.
Garbage has to go somewhere.
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