Reduce Garbage and Cut the Need for Landfills

Re “Plan to Ship Waste to Remote Sites Dropped,” May 25: C’mon, L.A.! It’s a no-brainer. Landfills are obsolete. In fact, waste is obsolete. Almost everything is a potential resource, and those items that are not should really be reconsidered.

We need massive green waste recycling or composting, regular recycling and public education to quit over-consuming junk products. We can bring canvas bags to the grocery store and reduce or stop buying products that have excessive, wasteful packaging. Then maybe we wouldn’t have to spend half a billion dollars over 15 years -- on garbage.

I don’t want my legacy for future generations to be a bunch of fast-food junk and land ruined for our children and animals.

Andrea L. Bell

Long Beach