Miami-Dade County’s trash causing a stink in Fort Pierce

Miami and Fort Pierce may be about 140 miles apart, but they are linked. By garbage.

Every day, Miami-Dade County sends 230 tons of its least savory export north on trains to a transfer station in Fort Pierce, where trucks take the trash to landfills.

“This is 20,000 flies,” said Edward Koch, showing us one of the fly traps hanging from a tree in his yard. “I was changing them every two days.”…

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