Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
by tspike on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:26PM
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I just watched this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooRVhRt1p54, which another commenter said may be the catalyst for China's ban on importing recycling. I'd be hard-pressed to say a well-run landfill is worse than what I just watched.
Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
by mschuster91 on Friday August 03, 2018 @12:36PM
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> It just stays there seeping out heinous juices into the surrounding area.
A proper landfill has multiple layers of protection to the ground below it and a web of drain pipes to ensure that the fluids don't collect up or, worse, leak out into the ground.
Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
by TeMPOraL on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:24PM
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How many landfills are proper landfills, and not half-assed landfills, or just holes in the ground? Out of all those proper landfills, how many are properly maintained? Like everything, protection and drainage degrades with time.
Re:Trash piles up in US as China closes door to recycling
by bluGill on Friday August 03, 2018 @01:56PM
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Are you asking about any first world country, or about random third world countries?
In rich countries the norm is all active landfills are properly maintained. There are a few bad apples that are caught once in a while, and a number of long abandoned landfills that cause problems, but for the most part a landfill in any first world country is not an environmental disaster.
In poor countries people just toss things wherever with no concern.
The amount of garbage piling up on this rock is mind-blowing, and there's literally nothing we are doing about it once it's in the ground. It just stays there seeping out heinous juices into the surrounding area.
People are worried about tens of tons of radioactive waste material that we're sealing inside special containers and putting in specially designed vaults when hundreds of tons of trash are being dumped per day per landfill. I'm not worried about people getting cancer from radioactive waste 10000 years from now, I'm worried about people catching the plague from all the footlong rats crawling over their local landfill.