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GARBAGE DUMPING IS NOT A GOOD IDEA
 This sort of sharing is NOT healthy for a marriage relationship. When a spouse feelscompelled to reveal all, although it may seem honest and open on the surface, in reality itmay not be.We encourage that anyone who has a deep, dark, hidden secret from many years ago thinktwice before sharing it with their spouse. Seek counseling, individual therapy, or visit a pastoror priest first. Otherwise, you could be transferring a burden from one set of shoulders toanother. It can become a no-win situation for the wronged spouse. Joseph Champlin wrote in Alone No Longer,"If the wronged spouse becomes angry and unforgiving, the guilty partner then can feel thedeed was justified from the beginning; if the offended partner, on the other hand, is veryaccepting and understanding, the culpable spouse may believe it was not such a bad actionafter all." This is a difficult concept for many couples, especially on Marriage Encounter, EngagedEncounter and Retrouvaille weekends. These weekends encourage confidence and openness,but they also stress that (Champlin quote again..)" this is not garbage dumping, nor therevelation of some action or event (that would be confession), but the decision to be morehonest and open with my beloved."Difference Between Honesty and Garbage Dumping There is a thin line between being open and honest, and garbage dumping. There is adifference between confession and openness. The Catholic Engaged Encounter writes in itsGuide to Writing Openness in Communication, "Confession deals with past behavior whileopenness deals with present attitudes and feelings."Despite strictures from the high court to stop dumping garbage at the site, a CCP excavatorwas seen burying garbage at the parade grounds on Monday evening.Panaji mayor Tony Rodrigues said he was unaware of the incident, but said that he thinks thatsegregation was being undertaken at the site.Commissioner of the CCP Melwyn Vaz said, "We have not deviated in any way from the highcourt directive. We are just segregating at the site."Residents of the area who had thought they had rid themselves of the stench of garbage afterthe high court’s order were surprised to find the CCP back to its old tricks. The high court had acted after residents of the area had filed a Public Interest Litigation citingthat the dumping of garbage was a severe health hazard while also a cause for loss of business. The YMCA, members of the Methodist church, Rajani Charitable Trust, and Holy AngelsConvent first wrote to the CCP, the health director and the Pollution Control Board askingthem to stop the dumping of garbage. When there was no response and the YMCA foundroom bookings being cancelled, including by the Indian Institute of Architects and the state
 
government for the national schools football coaching camp, the residents had approachedthe court.Dragged to court, the CCP gave an undertaking that it will stop disposing garbage at the site.It also assured that disinfectants would be sprayed and the plastic waste in the area would beremoved. Availability of land is of prime concern to the CCP, which does not have a place for alandfill site or a waste management site.Among those who have felt the heat of the garbage crisis are the hotels and restaurants inPanaji. Gaurish Dhond, president, Goa Hotels and Restaurants Association, says that the civicbody refraining from collecting garbage was not the solution to the problem."The garbage crisis is not that of Panaji alone, but has to be handled by the stategovernment. Panaji has a large floating population. We have office-goers , governmentservants and tourists in the city besides residents. This means that people who come to the city have at least one meal in a day in Panaji," hesaid.It was with great reluctance that the civic administration agreed to the controversial shiftingof the Kothrud garbage depot and dump the city's garbage at alternative sites despite theirlong distance. Now, poor access to the dump yards may well delay the entire project.Municipal Commissioner Girish Pradhan told Pune Newsline that he will have to meet thedistrict collector on Monday to seek his intervention. He admitted that after conducting siteinspections, the PMC would have to acquire private land under the urgency clause to chalkout some kind of approach road to the locations.A total of 10 sites had been suggested to dispose of the city's garbage out of which the PMChad been directed to take possession of three located on the outskirts of the city. The districtcollectorate had in a letter dated March 10 written to the Pune Municipal Commissioner totake possession of the three alternate sites - 28 hectares at Mhatobichi Alandi, 109 hectaresat Wadgaon Shinde and eight hectares at Yevlewadi to dispose of the garbage.Owing to the long distance of these sites, the administration had pressed for acquiring thenearby Wadgaon Budruk and Katraj locations. However, these options do not seem feasibleanymore. The site at Katraj is located in the ghats which has no approach road. It is notphysically possible to climb that stretch to dump the garbage, PMC officials said while thelocation of Wadgaon Budruk is also likely to be ruled out as there are residential localities. Infact, residents are likely to protest in the event of the PMC dumping the garbage there. The Yevlewadi site is atop a hill to which again there is no access. Private land will have to beacquired on the stretch which again would delay the entire project. The airport authority'sobjection to dumping the garbage at Wadgaon Shinde which falls in ``flying zone'' is likely torule out this site as well.Incidentally, the PMC has no ``official'' access to its existing Urali Devachi site. Nearly 450metric tonnes of garbage are dumped at the site which was made operational from 1990-91.Nine years later the officials have to pass through private land with the help of police as the
 
properties have yet to be acquired. According to an official, the garbage trucks are evenstoned by the villagers of Mantarwadi if that they pass via that route.Elephants, hyenas, baboons and birds all gather at the dumping site in Chobe to feed. Justthis year, three elephants have died after consuming plastic from the garbage heap. Thunya Sedodoma, the principal wildlife warden in the park, said that last year, plastics werefound in the stomach of a deadelephant. She said it is not uncommonto see plastic in the feces of elephants.Sedodoma said that this year alone,the park has recorded over 70 deathsof wildlife, all related to feeding fromthe garbage dumpIsau Mbanga, the Chobe DistrictCouncil secretary said they have nochoice but to continue dumpinggarbage at the site while theyconstruct a new landfill nearby: “Wehave a serious land problem in theChobe, unlike other district councils.We are building the second landfill at the same site because we are trying to minimize landuse,” he said. He said that the Chobe District Council does not have compactors to bury therubbish, although it is hoped that they will be able to buy the equipment within a few months.Mbanga did say that the new landfill will have an electric fence meant to keep wildlife,including elephants, away from the garbage.Now I won’t pretend to have any grand ideas about how to solve the problem of elephantsconsuming plastic from a landfill in Botswana. Nor do I think it would be fair to complain, as Iam not living a plastic-free life. However, it is a poignant and painful reminder to me of howno trash ever simply “goes away.”In Sonoma County, California, where I live, we filled up our landfill in 2005, and now havereserved space at the new one being built on the Cortina Indian Rancheria in Colusa County,150 miles away. On an Indian Reservation! This story of the Botswana elephants is just another daily reminder to myself to be careful, todo everything I can to keep as much out of the waste stream as possible. Another reminder tobe diligent about using cloth bags, reusable containers and lunchboxes, to keep composting,even in the city, to recycle my boxes, and wash out myplastic bags.
NAIL-A-DUMPER
It is illegal to dump solid waste such as trash,garbage, appliances, furniture, pallets, yard waste, tires
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