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[detmatt]

And that might not solve anything. Cities on the ocean like NYC to name one, put their trash on a barge and dump it in the ocean. Happens all over the globe, and plastic ends up floating around and winding up north of Hawaii, and elsewhere. Burning plastic is the only way to rid it from this planet, it her than the toxic gases released from burning it, and that's it. The plastic, hell, the newspaper buried next to the plastic will remain almost 100% intact forty feet deep at the landfill my garbage company sends it to. Plastic (most of the ones in use at a competitive price) will not biodegrade much, if any over many more live cycles than I will ever have. Awesome, isn't it? Recycling isn't generally cost effective, so it goes in the trash, just like aluminum cans when the price of scrap metal is low. Just because it goes into your recycling container, doesn't mean it will get recycled. But you can feel good about putting it in the correct colored barrel.

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This practice of dumping in the ocean ended in the mid 19th century for New York anyway.

 

[LocuMob]

This practice of dumping in the ocean ended in the mid 19th century for New York anyway.

Mid 20th century. They spend 2.3 Billion getting rid of 14 million tonnes of garbage a year! Insane.

 

[detmatt]

Mid 20th century. They spend 2.3 Billion getting rid of 14 million tonnes of garbage a year! Insane.

Thanks, yes that century.

 

[Snotty]

The Environmentalists will never go for it, but we should be burning our garbage for energy. It's a never ending source of consumable energy that can be used for super-heating water, which will in turn spin a turbine. The smoke can be filtered and all that's left is the carbon to bury. That substance would take up far lass space in landfills.

That would not help with metals, but would sure stop plastics from entering the oceans.

 

[LocuMob]

The Environmentalists will never go for it, but we should be burning our garbage for energy. It's a never ending source of consumable energy that can be used for super-heating water, which will in turn spin a turbine. The smoke can be filtered and all that's left is the carbon to bury. That substance would take up far lass space in landfills.

That would not help with metals, but would sure stop plastics from entering the oceans.

We sold our garbage to a company 60 miles away that burned it, when we had people who cared at my work, and the garbage was nice and dry.

They burn garbage in Minneapolis, not sure if they do anywhere else in the state, but it's something you can control, and all those toxins can be sucked up by today's awesome, expensive filtering systems available. How much do these enviro-freaks really want to contribute to the cause? Ed Bagley Jr. separates his refuse into like, seven different containers, has about a shoe box worth of garbage, the rest is all recyclables. But if his garbage company doesn't actually recycle it, it's just that feel good for the person separating the trash.

Burn, baby, burn! The trash, that is.

 

[Snotty]

Yes, burn it and use it for energy!