ABSTRACT
The issue of locally unwanted land uses (LULUs) has often been a policy maker's nightmare. Environmental LULUs are driven largely by technological change and the expanding effluvia of a prosperous industrial society. Planners now have a golden opportunity to combine environmentalism and community development. Once the nation has seriously committed itself to the business of reducing the environmental threats posed by its excessive generation of hazardous and solid wastes, it must still resolve the question of environmental equity for those facilities that are absolutely necessary under any circumstances. "A landfill in the sky" is how some East Liverpool, Ohio, residents contemptuously refer to the controversial WTI hazardous-waste incinerator located on the banks of the Ohio River. By targeting recycling facilities for economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, the unwanted jobs connected with landfills and incinerators can become the wanted labor-intensive jobs of sorting and processing recyclables.
