Bigger landfill is not a better landfill

Editor: Kelowna is making a large mistake in assuming, bigger is better and making more room at the Glenmore landfill will be a lasting solution to our pollution.

Kelowna is mixing all its dump chemicals together and every rainfall adds a solvent (water) to encourage formation of all new chemical mixture that future generations will only marvel about — how to prevent this soup from entering the water system and what is this solution to this pollution.

This pool of chemical mixture will be difficult to deal with. We dump everything you may imagine into one package, cover it with some dirt and take the attitude that we cannot see it, so it must be OK.

Rain falls and increases the pool of chemical mixture that will increase every year, even if the dump is shut down.

What to do: what goes into the dump has to be managed and sorted and dealt with according to the chemical you have.

What material is combustible and will not further pollute should be used as fuel to create heat and electricity, as is done around the world.

Plastics, the ones we can do without, should not be imported or used — period. It will be expensive but the alternative, in years to come, will seem very cheap and inexpensive.

Kelowna will continue to grow and so will the pollution in our dump. This generation can do better — spend our money now to correct our pollution. Jorgen Hansen, Kelowna