"There's a real predilection in people who live in municipal areas to say put it out in the country. It's somebody else's neighborhood. On the OWASA board, I called it urban imperialism: "It's immoral to ship waste to another landfill so let's build our own, but not in Chapel Hill and not in Carrboro." Barry Jacobs, vice chair of the Orange County Commissioners, during a discussion on siting garbage transfer station. (from Herald Sun Verbatim column)
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