Me and solid waste go way back. I was probably 6 years old when I wrote the scrawling text in the photo (Translation: I Like the Dump because it’s Messy). I still know exactly what I was referring to— the Skaneateles Transfer Station , the place where residents of my upstate NY hometown brought their waste and recyclables. This was in the mid-90s, so society handled its discarded material a little differently back then, but Skaneateles was (and still appears to be) on top of its game. Multi-stream recyclables were accepted in various walk-in transfer trailers. I remember joining my dad in the containers and helping to toss our waste, paper, aluminum cans, ...