Analysis and Viewpoint: For 40 years, a solid waste transfer station in Evanston’s historic Black area - Evanston RoundTable

Analysis and Viewpoint: For 40 years, a solid waste transfer station in Evanston’s historic Black area - Evanston RoundTable

Every day dozens of garbage trucks rumble down Church Street to dump their loads onto the floor of Waste Management’s transfer station at 1711 Church St., a 1.688-acre parcel along the old Mayfair Spur embankment. The garbage is then swept over a wall into a larger truck waiting below. That truck pulls out of the station and takes its load to a landfill in Zion, Illinois. Drone footage offers an aerial view of the waste transfer station in Evan…