E.W.D.

Empire Waste Displacement Co.: the O.N.A.N.-subsidized hauler that gets the "tidy" U.S.'s toxic waste out and into the Great Concavity. Its shiny-truck, land-barge, and catapult facilities sit in Enfield; the block-long catapults — les trébuchets noirs, the black catapults, to the Québécois — fling twine-bundled waste-vehicles into the Concavity at parabolic altitudes exceeding 5 km, with "a sound like a giant stamping foot" (p. 241). The airborne displacement vehicles whistle overhead on rising arcs, blue alert-lights atwinkle (p. 121); E.T.A.'s litigation with E.W.D. over the flight-paths reaches the appellate stage (p. 286). The solid-waste complement to the ATHSCME fans.