Hey Hey! Ho Ho!

"We don't want your trash no more!"

The citizens of North Carolina are taking a stand and telling it like it is, "We don't want your trash no more!"

Yesterday, in Sandyfield, NC (a rural, predominantly African-American community in Columbus county) nearly 250 individuals from across eastern NC gathered to show their opposition of an incoming landfill. It's a similar story across eastern NC. Communities are fighting "megadumps" and saying "No more dumping on our communities!"

The line up of proposed megadumps in eastern NC:
1) Sandyfield, NC. Oddly enough this landfill would actually sit closer to the town of East Arcadia - so shouldn't the citizens of East Arcadia get a say in the siting of the landfill? They think so, and are taking a strong stand against it!

2) Near Sandyfield is the proposed landfill targeted for the Green Swamp.

3) Another proposed landfill, in Brunswick County (just south of Columbus County), is called the Hugo Neu.

4) Head North on 17 from Wilmington (which is just across the river from the Hugo Neu), jump off on 264 and you'll run through Hyde County where another proposed landfill could sit.

5) If you continued North on 17, you'd end up a stone's throw from another proposed megadump in Camden County - home of the Great Dismal Swamp.

6) and there are a slue of other smaller landfills proposed in numerous counties in NC.

Not only do these landfills make horrible economic sense, are harmful to our environment, and have serious public health concerns, they are also the epitome of environmental racism.

It's time the whole of North Carolina stood up and said, "Hey Hey! Ho Ho! We don't want your trash no more!"