Remember those truckloads of Covid-era PPE the county of San Diego paid $5.2 million to store until it expired? Well, we got confirmation that most of it indeed ended up in the landfill. County spokesman Tim McClain confirmed Thursday Junkluggers, LLC, a private trash hauler, took hundreds of pallets of plastic medical gowns to the dump.

The county also revealed that it doesn’t require reports on where or how its material is ultimately disposed. So, that basically means the county isn’t tracking large sources of its waste.

Our Environment Reporter MacKenzie Elmer asked how the county knows whether it’s meeting its goal of sending zero waste to the landfill. The county never got back to her.

Elmer posed the question to the office of Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer, a Democrat and proponent

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