Summary of: Puente Hills Landfill In the book This is Paradise: Puente Hills Landfill, City of Industry, California by Jeanne Marie Laskas; talks about a 1,365-acre dump that serves five million people in the Los Angeles, California area. This place is the Puente Hills Landfill. In 1953, Puente Hills used to be a landing site of the first spacecraft in the Martian invasion, before it was a landfill. Then it became a series of canyons where people threw trash. In 1965, it became the San Gabriel Valley Dump. Later in 1970, it was purchased by Sanitation of Los Angeles and was renamed to The Puente Hills Landfill. As Americans, we produce about 4 pounds of trash per person, per day. That’s 250 million pounds of trash per year America produces. Puente Hills Landfill capacity is 13,200 tons of trash and that’s exactly how much they get every day - usually by noon. Once they have reached their capacity for the day, the guard at the gate puts up a flag showing that the landfill is closed for the day. Once the landfill is closed, other trash trucks have to find another dump to go too. Puente Hills is a popular landfill for trucks to use, because it is 28 dollars a ton to dump there – the cheapest in Los Angeles. People have this mindset, that once their trash leaves their driveway, it is
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People threw trash out their windows and dumped trash into the oceans. Throwing trash into the oceans soon got banned in 1939 and people stopped throwing trash out into the streets, because people were getting diseases like bubonic plague, cholera, and typhoid fever. There were no laws concerning pollution during this time, so people started to burn trash and everyone had a backyard incinerator. But burning trash created smog and pollution problems. 96 people died from pollution within four days in New York. In 1959, engineers published a guide about safety and sanitation, forcing people to bury their trash instead off burning
People threw trash out their windows and dumped trash into the oceans. Throwing trash into the oceans soon got banned in 1939 and people stopped throwing trash out into the streets, because people were getting diseases like bubonic plague, cholera, and typhoid fever. There were no laws concerning pollution during this time, so people started to burn trash and everyone had a backyard incinerator. But burning trash created smog and pollution problems. 96 people died from pollution within four days in New York. In 1959, engineers published a guide about safety and sanitation, forcing people to bury their trash instead off burning