Showing posts with label Don't Trash Carbondale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Don't Trash Carbondale. Show all posts

March 7, 2012

SandBoxBlogs: Aspen Times/Letters to the Editor " Playing with fire"

Tom Kilby, Carbondale:
"If our answer is “yes,” then we should put this facility on the plagued Crystal River Market Place site. It would be a brilliant monument to our stupidity.

DontTrashCarbondale.com encourages you to stay informed and tell others about the dangers of allowing Carbondale's sleeping “trash giant” to awaken...."  (Read more?  Click title)

"Unapologetically pursuing and tracking patterns within the news others make since 2010."

January 23, 2012

SandBox Comments: Aspen Daily News "Talking trash in Carbondale"

A very good report from Chris Council.  Who we assume is a new reporter up on the Aspen Daily News. 

We've noticed Chris's photos in the Daily as well.

"The politics and corporate positioning lurking behind a proposed transfer station in Carbondale run as deep as the layers of trash in a landfill.

There is far more going on behind the scenes than just a couple of hand-painted signs alongside County Road 100 across from the old Mid-Continent Resources coal building near the rodeo grounds.

Located on the property of the Roaring Fork Preserve, the signs reflect the position of a coalition of Carbondale residents and property owners calling themselves “Don’t Trash Carbondale.” The group formed early last year to fight a proposal to turn the old Mid-Continent facility into a recycling center and solid-waste transfer station. Locally-owned disposal company Mountain Roll-offs Inc. (MRI) and the owner of the Mid-Continent building and property, IRMW, LLC are behind the proposal...."
(Chris Council )

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