Town landfill now ‘serene’ and ‘peaceful’
By Carol Pelosi, editor Every civilization has faced the same question: What to do with the fish and animal bones, broken crockery, wornout, broken or otherwise unusable things or pieces of things? For centuries those things got tossed onto a heap outside the back door, leading to what are now called “middens” by archeologists who determine all sorts of facts about our ancestors by what they threw away. We have a sort of infant midden in Wake Forest – the former town landfill up on North White Street – 40 acres which are now described by Jeanette Johnson, the town’s sustainability coordinator, as “sort of serene” and “peaceful and quiet,” somewhere where public works staff and others like to go. There is no way to determine when the Town of Wake Forest decided it had a duty to provide for the health of its residents by collecting the trash. It
