If the City of Greensboro's trash is only about 137,000 tons, why does who want the White Street Landfill to take what could be 245,000 more tons per year (179% more)?

The proposal of any new law or regulation which comes from [businessmen]

ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted,

till after having been long and carefully examined

not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention.

It comes from an order of men

whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public,

who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public,

and who accordingly have, upon many occasions both deceived and oppressed it.

Adam Smith

Moral philosopher and Father of Modern Economics