WM vs. Old Forge: landfill commercial
March 22nd, 2007 by smidge
As Waste Management offers the town of Old Forge, Pennsylvania $42 million to expand its landfill operations there, Christopher J. Kelly, a columnist for Scranton, Pennsylvania’s Times-Tribune, imagines this commerical:
(Cue ‘America the Beautiful’…)
“What is a landfill? Some say it’s a noxious, nasty morass of trash that should never be situated anywhere near a residential community. Well, we here at Waste Management Inc. have a different view. When we look at a landfill, we see America.
“This is a throwaway culture, and all that garbage has to go somewhere. You and your family can sleep safe at night knowing it’s going to get there on a Waste Management truck.
“For what is a landfill, if not a great melting pot for the multicultural melange of waste cast off every day by Americans of every sex, race, color and creed? Americans like you.
“So let the America-haters bellyache, and we’ll keep piling it high until our putrid mountains’ majesty stretches all across the polluted plain.
“Waste Management — America, one truckload at a time.”
You can read his full story here.
