None of this means private hauling operations and disposal facilities won't be a part of the solution to Harford County's looming garbage disposal problem; indeed Guthrie's proposal is one that might end up being part of the solution. It also doesn't mean opening a county-owned trash transfer station in Joppa is the only sound public policy option available to the county government – though this is a notion that seems to be ingrained in some county officials.
Among the problems to date with the Joppa waste station proposal are that it remains unclear where trash will be going once it gets to Joppa in a post Scarboro county, the selection of the Joppa site appears to have been made in an isolation chamber beyond the curious eyes of the public and the involvement of state and federal agencies and quasi-governmental agencies appears to be clandestinely dictating local policy.
