Editor:
So, did you answer an ad in the paper for trash removal, or maybe a friend recommended someone they know who picks up trash and takes it to the landfill for a fee. Do you have any idea where that trash actually ended up after you paid for its removal and it was taken away? Did it make it to the landfill or did it end up on the side of a logging road? Was it burned to remove the evidence of papers with names on them or to clear the space for more dumping? Is the mattress on the logging road one that you needed to get rid of but needed help to remove from your home? Has it now been dumped and burned?
Evidence has been found of this very scary behaviour taking place just up the roads above our homes, large fires burning when all around us the woods are timber dry. Trees cut down to add fuel to these fires so mattresses and other dense materials will catch and burn. This is risky stuff. We smell smoke every day now and can only hope that it is not coming from just up the mountain we live below.
You can stop this scam. Simply do not pay for trash removal until the truck owner returns from the landfill with a receipt for dumping legally.
Elaine Futterman, Roberts Creek
