Would they completely shut down the facility while the $10M of excavation is going on? Are they going to just keep adding more stuff on top as they dig? What type of impact is digging and shifting everything going to have? What are the environmental risks of disturbing everything?
As others have pointed out, electronics are supposes to be disposed of separate from the normal trash. So, either he did that and it isn’t in the site anyway, as e-waste had a different disposal path. Or, he ignored those rules and disposed of it in an unapproved way adding to the hazards of the landfill. Possible mystery third option, he disposed of it correctly and the council mixed it all together anyway, but I doubt this one.
There’s no upside to allowing him to sift through the entire site and lots and lots of different downsides.
