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company. you mentioned the word reckoning, and for the folks who might not seen our first half-hour, you had a plane. there was trouble on the plane. you went through that time wondering if you were going to live or die. they straightened it out. there was an happy landing, but during that 35 minutes where you were circling around and dumping fuel and learning how to brace yourself for the crash, you basically, at 28 years old, will the person, said, am i really happy? we are here, and we have permission to be happy. i was here, and i was programmed to be successful. that was the big ah-ha that success and possession did not bring happiness. but i did not know what else there was. you read all the business books. you have to be tough. you have to lay them off. you have to scale the profitability. the truth is the businesses that i have launched following these tenets they have all been winning. maybe a nice guys can win. there is a new consumer, a new employ ....
reckoning, and for the folks who might not seen our first half-hour, you had a plane. there was trouble on the plane. you went through that time wondering if you were going to live or die. they straightened it out. there was an happy landing, but during that 35 minutes where you were circling around and dumping fuel and learning how to brace yourself for the crash, you basically, at 28 years old, will the person, said, am i really happy? we are here, and we have permission to be happy. i was here, and i was programmed to be successful. that was the big ah-ha that success and possession did not bring happiness. but i did not know what else there was. you read all the business books. you have to be tough. you have to lay them off. you have to scale the profitability. the truth is the businesses that i have launched following these tenets they have all been winning. maybe a nice guys can win. there is a new consumer, a new employee where they are on their path to ....
we appealed to the state and others about. we understand that. we re going to do our utmost to make sure they are familiar with what s going on here. reporter: holden said there s a liner underneath my entire site, he said it s under my feet. he said the liner is supposed to contain everything that s dumped here in the landfill and protected from any leaks. he says the ground water and the air is monitored. and if anything goes wrong, they would know it. the epa told us bp, along with the epa, are also sampling the landfills regularly to make sure they are safe. the agency also said it directed bp to keep its waste disposal operations, quote, fully transparent. bp must post information about the disposal of all collected waste on their website along with any community complaints. connie rocco is first in line. if it s not hazardous, why would someone be out with tyvex suits and suits and that sort of thing taking it to the landfill. coming up, gauging the spill. scientists say ....
Epa, and waste management all say it s safe. there are many worried that whatever is going in to this landfill from the oil spill is going to end up in their water system and make the community sick. it s an understandable concern because there s a lack of awareness. reporter: this is a nonhazardous waste site. there won t be liquid oil coming here, just solid oil waste. before it s dumped, it s store in the huge containers and analyzed. in the last 24 hours, holden said they dropped more than 150 tons of bp waste into this landfill, 150 tons. if the county didn t want it, why is it here? we appealed to the state and others about. we understand that. we re going to do our utmost to make sure they are familiar with what s going on here. reporter: holden said there s a liner underneath my entire site, he said it s under my feet. he said the liner is supposed to ....
rocco says the county board passed a resolution not to accept any waste in this community. that doesn t matter, waste management that owns the landfill doesn t have to look at what the board says. it answers to the state. so it signed a contract with bp and started dumping the oily waste right where rocco and plenty of others feared they would. what concerns you most about this oil and the tar balls in this whole mixture going to the landfill. the long-term effects that we will have to endure, if it, in fact, is if, in fact, we do find that it is dangerous to it gets into your water or the water table, absolutely. reporter: keeping them honest, we re asking bp why it s disposed of spill waste in a county that pleaded with them not to. bp wouldn t comment. we asked ken holden to take us inside the landfill so we could see for ourselves why bp, the ....