THE GREGORY LANDFILL WAS OVERWHELMINGLY APPROVED BY VOTERS IN 1994 and again in 2004
San Diego County voters have approved the Gregory Canyon landfill with the requirement that it must meet strict environmental standards imposed by the State and County.
IT IS DESTINED TO BE A STATE-OF-THE-ART FACILITY ADHEARING TO TOUGH ENVIRONMENTAL SAFEGUARDS
After years of thorough environmental review, the County Department of Environmental Health certified the landfill’s Environmental Impact Report, has determined the landfill will protect our water resources. The landfill’s environmental system, featuring a five-layer, five-foot thick protective liner system, will make Gregory Canyon the most protective landfill in San Diego County.
DAILY OPERATIONS WILL BE MONITORED AND REGULATED
The landfill will be closely monitored and regulated by State, Regional and County environmental agencies, and by the San Luis Rey Municipal Water District – the district nearest the landfill – to ensure that water resources are fully protected. These safeguards will be backed by unprecedented financial guarantees.
Reduce
Waste prevention, or “source reduction,” means consuming and throwing away less. It includes:
- purchasing durable, long-lasting goods
- seeking products and packaging that are as free of toxics as possible
- redesigning products to use less raw material in production, have a longer life, or be used again after its original use Source reduction actually prevents the generation of waste in the first place, so it is the most preferred method of waste management and goes a long way toward protecting the environment.
Reuse
Reusing items—by repairing them, donating them to charity and community groups, or selling them—also reduces waste.Reusing products, when possible, is even better than recycling because the item does not need to be reprocessed before it can be used again.
Recycle
Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. In addition, it generates a host of environmental, financial, and social benefits. Materials like glass, metal, plastics, and paper are collected, separated and sent to facilities that can process them into new materials or products. Recycling is one of the best environmental success stories of the late 20th century. Recycling, including composting, diverted 79 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2005, up from 34 million tons in 1990. By 2002, almost 9,000 curbside collection programs served
roughly half of the American population. Curbside programs, along with drop-off and buy-back centers, resulted in a diversion of about 32 percent of the nation's solid waste in 2005.
