Train with 10 million pounds of poop has been stranded in this tiny town

A small rural town in Alabama is currently dealing with an unusual situation. The town is tackling with a strong stench of human poop, which smells of dead, rotting animals. The town of Parrish, home to 989 residents, is now fighting to have train cars, carrying 10 million pounds of waste removed. The cars were abandoned in Parrish two months ago.

Ironically, the rural town was never meant to deal with humongous amount of poop and the train was bound to continue its journey to its final destination. The human waste was supposed to be dumped at Big Sky Environmental, a private landfill in Adamsville, Alabama. However, two months ago, neighbouring town of West Jefferson filed a directive against big Sky in a bid to keep their own town safe from foul smell. But now the injunction has created a massive stinky trouble for the town of Parrish.

But then the big question arises, whose poop is it? Unfortunately, the poop, technically bio-waste, doesn’t even belong to the rural town.

The poop has travelled a long way from New York and New Jersey. The waste management facilities in these cities dispose of the human waste by shipping it to Big Sky Environmental.

Further increasing the woes of the town, Parrish does not have any zoning laws to prevent the waste from being dumped on them after the private landfill lost its permit. The town is only about two square miles, which makes the situation is even worse for it as everything is within the reach of poop smell.

Furthermore, it the poop stays stranded in the town any longer, it could also affect the health of the residents of the town.

However, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management has assured the town that the material isn’t dangerous as it is Grade A biowaste, the MAyor of the town and other Parrish homeowners remain concerned.

Despite speaking to various lawyers, it seems that the poop is not going to get removed anytime soon as filing an injunction against the landfill would delay the removal as it could result in a lengthy lawsuit.

As per reports doing the rounds, the residents have been quoted saying that initially  Big Sky Environmental assured that the waste, held in 252 tractor-trailers, would be removed within 7-10 days of its arrival. However, two months down the line, the town is still at loss.