What will New Orleans & the Gulf Coast do with all the trash from Hurricane Katrina?

Question

There is so much trash in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. What will the survivors and residents do with all of the flooded cars, furnature, houses, and junk?

Answer 1

Most of the debris from the houses (furniture, wood, etc) will wind up being landfilled. They have all of the major hauling companies involved in the cleanup efforts. Where it is economical they will recycle as much as possible. Most of the metals and recoverable/reusable things will get handled that way because they have value to all the people involved.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Umm as of late, which means the last time I went home before we sold... they were buring what they could... debris wise, like trees, houses they tore down, etc. whichever they could throw in the woodchipper and place in a HUGE mound that we New Orleanians like to call Mount Everest on West End Blvd. in Lakeview. I think they were even hauling that sort of thing to Slidell to be burned... I drove through there this weekend and the I-10 was smokey so....

Also, I think they've been hauling the cars away, I know they aren't moving the cars from St. Bernard/ New Orleans East yet... I dunna everything is in a wreck!!!! They're probably still fishing bodies out of the Mississippi and other water ways, doubt they've even looked in the Bayou.

Answer 3

I heard that Louisiana is going to make an artscape with the trash somewhere between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. The cars, of course, will be melted down to make ishing lures and doubloons.

Answer 4

In terms of lives lost, you are right. Katrina was awful. But who knows what the fall out will be from the destruction of wet lands and our coastal areas? Fishing industries and jobs will be lost. Wild life lost and because of the toxic dispersant's used cancer rates may go up or people will not be able to eat shell fish or fish for a long time. People will lose their lively hood and we may not recover from this for years!

Answer 5

I have been there recently and its devastating, maybe all the Mexicans that are working there from Mexico will clean it up

Answer 6

Much of it is being burned - some intentional and some unintentional.

Answer 7

i realy dont know i hope everything gose good for them though my homies aare from n.o

Answer 8

Landfills, landfills, landfills