You Don't Want To Live Downwind Of Environmentalism

Here's another fun green-vs.-green conflict: Seattle instituted a law to force residents to recycle food scraps for composting. And the city's happy that it collected 90,000 tons in the first year and converted it all into compost. But how and where did they do that? They sent all the scraps to composting centers. And those centers stink. Literally. Seattle doesn't care, because the centers are outside the city in Everett and Maple Valley. But the people who live in those cities are less impressed. Here's the thing, based on decades of experience with sewage treatment plants: When the government and the environmentalists tell you that the plants they want to build near residential neighborhoods won't smell, they're lying. You'll notice that these places never, ever go close to where the politicians and envirnomental leaders live. (AP via KOMO-TV/Seattle)

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