Untrash summit presentation 1

UN TRASH OUR DESERT UN DESIERTO SIN BASURA

UN TRASH OUR DESERT / UN DESIERTO SIN BASURA

We’ve cleaned up 108 tons of illegally dumped waste in Doña Ana County so far this year.
Join the movement!
Unete a la causa!

“ Illegal dumping is a problem everywhere within the region. It doesn’t have any borders – it happens in New Mexico, it happens in Texas, in Mexico, everywhere. I’m trying to bring this issue to the forefront and make people aware that this is a problem that affects us today and tomorrow. I want us to come together as a region and put our heads together to come up with possible solutions on how to try to make this area a cleaner and safer environment.”
Commissioner Dolores Saldaña-Caviness,
Doña Ana County

“ Illegal dumping turns our beautiful desert into a dump. There’s no excuse for it!”
Commissioner Scott A. Krahling, Doña Ana County

“ Illegal dumping on public lands is a form of pollution that affects wildlife and wildlife habitat, water resources, scenic and recreational values and defaces our nation’s public lands for present and future generations. Clean-up of illegal dumps costs millions of dollars to Local, State and Federal governments, and the US Tax payer. This can clearly be avoided by simply using approved landfills and trash receptacles in and near all communities.”
Bill Childress, Bureau of Land Management, Las Cruces District Manager

“ Our mission is to engage individuals to take greater responsibility about the environment. A lot of our communities are involved with illegal dumping. We at New Mexico Clean and Beautiful support cleaning up those illegally dumped areas.”
Joe Lobato, Executive Director for New Mexico Clean and Beautiful

“ As we were Incorporated last July, we see that people pass by our City and we need to keep it clean. We want people to stop and shop in our City. By keeping our City of Anthony clean and beautiful people will stop and pass the word about our City.”
Mayor Ramon Gonzalez, Anthony, NM

“ Illegal dumping of tires and other debris is a costly nationwide problem that poses a burden on taxpayers.
Illegal dumping presents a health and safety hazard that impacts the environment, humans and other living beings. ”
Representative Carl L. Robinson, City of El Paso

“ Illegal dumping is bad for communities for 4 reasons:
(1) Without doubt, such activities lower property values of adjoining property and of entire communities;(2) Dumping is unhealthy ... dumps are breeding places for disease-carrying pests; (3) Dumping directly attacks our water resources, since polluted water cannot be used by municipalities, industrial, and farming in normal operations; and, (4) Dumping is de-spiriting ... being forced to live in and around filth produces hopelessness and depression.
Dr. John Ockels, Texas Illegal
Dumping Resource Center

“ Illegal dumping is unsightly and detracts from the beauty of our desert environment. It costs thousands of tax payer dollars each year to remove. It devalues our neighborhoods and creates an unsafe atmosphere.”
Craig Fenske, Keep Las Cruces Beautiful Coordinator

“ Illegal Dumping is a contagious disease that mainly attacks lazy, uncaring people. It has no boundaries. Every community, suffers from the effects of this disease. It harms the public health and safety of our citizens, their quality of life and the value of their property. It’s costing us millions of dollars and it must be prevented.
The behavior must be stopped, through heavy penalties, clean up and monitoring of the sites, public awareness and education. Illegal dumping and littering is a major issue and concern for me as a private citizen and professionally.”
Commissioner Susan Flores, Otero County

“ No community is immune from the problem of illegal dumping. Here in El Paso we partner with Keep El Paso Beautiful, El Paso County, the TCEQ and the EPA to combat illegal dumps in and around the city. It is critical that we continue with the battle because illegal dumping creates more illegal dumping. The dumps are like magnets that attract more trash so we must continue to be vigilant against them.”
Joyce Wilson, El Paso City Manager

“ We need to stop illegal dumping. It is a safety, health and economic problem, but in order to stop it we need to educate and build awareness.”
Katherine Palafox, Executive Director
Keep El Paso Beautiful

“ We are all in this together. Some issues have no borders--air pollution, availability of water, and illegal dumping are just a few of these issues. We have to work together to find solutions regardless of which side of the border we live on -- Texas, New Mexico or Mexico.”
Ellen Smyth, Director Environmental Services,
City of El Paso

Illegal dumping in the desert is not only an eye sore, it is a health hazard. The water that collects in waste that is dumped in the desert is a breeding ground for mosquitoes. Every year several El Pasoans are diagnosed with West Nile Virus. By working to eliminate the breeding ground for disease carrying mosquitoes, we can decrease the number of people affected.
After the health risk, dumping is a strain on our local economy. Cleaning up the desert forces the city to use money on picking up illegal dumping that could be used in areas that can benefit the quality of life in El Paso.
Representative Dr. Michiel Noe, City of El Paso

“ Illegal dumping concerns have huge ramifications on communities and the environment. Illegal dumping can cause fire/explosions, injury, disease & damage to local plants and wildlife. Illegal dumping can also contaminate our soil and drinking water creating a health hazard for all animals and communities. Illegal dumping is against the law. DO NOT DO IT!”
Judge Carlos Urias, Culberson County

Untrash summit presentation 1

by scswa on Nov 07, 2011

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