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@commonsaychel: I have not actually been to the site in PA, but what I have heard from sources that seem to be in the know, the area where they bury is classified as a landfill to get around certain legal issues regarding the environmental impact of burying paper that has been printed on.
My sources say that it is a parcel of land adjacent to an actual landfill, thus simplifying the process of creating a landfill. They do hire the equipment operators along with their equipment from the landfill, which is what the people spreading that particular narrative point to when making the claim he dumps it in a landfill.

Regardless of whether it is a separate parcel of land or not, he has explained to me the process he uses, and it cannot be classified as “dumping in a landfill”.
They have a very specific protocol that they follow which was prepared by Rabonim in Lakewood and Eretz Yisroel.
If I could remember the details of the procedure, I would give the details, but I do remember that it involved lining the ground where the shamos are being buried with some sort of (very expensive) material (IIRC one trailer load of shaimos costed over $1,000 to line for back then whenI spoke to him about it) I don’t recall what it was or why it was required. It might have been some sort of polymer that certain Rabonim held is considered cheres just in case there were some Stam mixed in that they did not catch when they went through everything by hand. All Stam that they find is buried separately in Klei Cheres s as proscribed in Halacha.

If you were to be caught burying shamos in NY/NJ today, you would face massive fines and potential prison time.

Lakewhut:
I am not going to provide an opinion here, because I am not well enough informed on the topic.
However, I will call out the fact that you seem to be carrying a grievance.
The fact that your response to Always_Ask _Questions had nothing to do with their response and instead called out your perception of how certain shadchanim choose their clientele, is quite telling.
How about you going and dedicating yourself to arranging Shidduchim exclusively between Klal Yisroel’s poor.
While I don’t think any Shadchan ought to exclude the less affluent, it would be irresponsible towards their families were they to solely focus on them.

Word of the day: “detritus“
Posted by mobico, “detritus” means: Dead particulate organic material.

I get decent 5g coverage in most areas of lakewood with Verizon. On route 70 near the Verizon store (ironically) and Costco and on route 9 near Walmart it’s not so great.

Right Jew,
Depending on your standard of Catskills and your standard of price and your standard of Shabbos, I might recommend Armoni inn of Orangeburgh NY.

Never mind.
Just look out for my smoke signals over port Elizabeth at 11:15 tonight for the answer to your question.

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Last year I made Pesach the first time, (like so many other relatively newlyweds. It was my third Pesach since I got married) I bought two pounds of Israeli machine Matzah when that was all that was available, then I bought four pounds of an Israeli hand matzah when that became available, my in-laws sent two pounds of local hand matzah, and my parents sent a Ukrainian box that contained exactly six matzahs.
The only boxes that had any whole matzah were the local, the Ukrainian, and the machine matzah.
That does not indicate that everyone who bought Israeli hand matzah had broken matzah, but a lot of people are not interested in the necessary trial and error.
Additionally, if you like you matzah thin, it is virtually impossible to ship thin matzah without most or all of it crumbling.
When NPGS in Lakewood started importing hand matzah from Israel more than a decade ago, they discovered after the first year, and now the matzah they import is as thick as ( and tastes like) a piece of plywood.

track 10 of Baruch Levine’s Bonim Atem