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New Hampshire’s Garbage Problem
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  A growing number of people want New Hampshire to change the way it gets rid of its trash, and a new bill in the legislature could give towns the power to stop landfills from expanding. Garbage has been piling up in many of the state’s landfills, much of it from outside New Hampshire. We’ll hear from the town of Bethlehem about its ten-year court battle with a local waste disposal company, and find out how it could affect the relationship between towns and corporations across the state. Guests
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I see a couple options that could contribute to a solution to NH's garbage problem, help the environment and make money at the same time.
Composting foodwaste is an economic opportunity on the collection and distribution ends and will return nutrients to the soil while diverting waste from landfills. Coupled with anaerobic-composting (which produces methane) for biomass energy production.
Also, algae is the most efficient way to produce bio-fuels and can be fed using human waste, which is currently (in Keene anyway) processed into septage and sent to a landfill.
It seems to often that we try to deal with local and national problems by sending them out of town or country. While I know that many towns may be unable to deal with their amount of trash, shouldn't we encourage each town to try and reduce the trash load and have many small land fills rather than large regional landfills. And certainly we should not accept other state waste. We will not become responsible consumers and deal with our trash unless it remains at the local level.
Friedericka Kazo
New Ipswich