Friday, April 06, 2018

10 million pounds of human feces from New York/New Jersey are rotting in railcars stuck in a small Alabama town

FROM THE BOING BOING SHOP
 
Two months ago, dozens of train cars filled with ten million pounds of human shit from waste disposal plants in New York and New Jersey came to rest outside the town of Parrish, Alabama, population 982.

They've been there ever since, rotting in the sun, smelling unimaginably bad.

They were destined for a landfill site in Adamsville, Alabama, but the residents of the adjacent town of West Jefferson obtained an injunction blocking the site's staging railyard from receiving the biowaste, so now the shit is in limbo in Parrish, where a the region's commitment to small government and light-touch regulation means there's no rules against storing tons of human feces in populated areas.

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