SAN DIEGO (Border Report) — Landfills in San Diego County have begun receiving some 40 tons of trash and debris from Mexico that a trash boom stopped last month near the border.
Alter Terra, a binational environmental group, set up the boom in the Tijuana River channel, and it only took one hour to collect all that trash.
Initial estimates put the amount at 20 tons, but as trucks started hauling it out, the group later determined that as much as 40 tons of trash was collected during that one-hour rain event…