I am not going to comment on continue or close the dump. I Ask, What are the Alternatives? A thought provoking article that leads nowhere. Recycling, which never really worked, died with covid. We are lucky to recycle cardboard now. The amount of plastic bottles sold daily in the form of soda is staggering. None of that plastic is recycled. We pay $0.05 cents for a 'recycling' deposit but that has just become another form of taxation. What happened to reusable glass bottles? They would get cleaned and reused. The same trucks that deliver the plastic bottle sodas could back haul the empty glass bottles to the factory for literal reuse. We are getting better at not taking bags at the grocery store for the short trip home and then never using the bags again. Mostly paper now, not plastic - we have made some progress. Why do we need to buy deli meat in vacuum packed plastic containers when the deli can slice it and wrap it in paper and hand it to you. Oh wait, lets put that paper wrapped meat and cheese in a little plastic bag just in case it leaks on the seat of our $60k car that lasts 4-7 years before we throw it away. Lets take small bites every year until we fix the problem. I would start with the easy fixes like loosing the plastic soda bottles for reusable glass. Until then what do you do with the 1,560,000 tons of annual garbage just going to Seneca? (52 weeks x 5 days x 6000 tons) (for those of you keeping track)......By the way there are 2600 active and more than 10,000 closed landfills in the USA according to the EPA.