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Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by stjohnswarts on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:41PM (#31428539)
People love to "what if" landfills. Best to not bother arguing with them. We have tons of problems with emissions, plastics pollution, industrial dumping. However landfills ain't one of them, but people won't give up. I've learned to not bother discussing anything with them if they don't know a few basics of how modern landfills are run (at least in western nations).
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Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by not2b on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @06:54PM (#31428641)
As others have mentioned they are a major source of methane emission, though this can be addressed (do a better job separating out food waste and compost it).
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Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by TylerE on Thursday May 19, 2022 @12:43AM (#31430870)
Landfills were demonized for a long time because they were easy targets.
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Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by formerly_proven on Thursday May 19, 2022 @01:49AM (#31431214)
It's usually just disguised NIMBY-ism :)
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Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by bigfudge on Thursday May 19, 2022 @04:27AM (#31432091)
The thing about nimbyism in this case is that confortable commentators on hackernews are vanishingly unlikely ever to have to live near one. This is a poor people problem.
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Re:Plastic-eating enzyme could eliminate billions of tons of... by astrange on Thursday May 19, 2022 @04:50AM (#31432224)
There’s a famous landfill right in Silicon Valley though; it’s caused Milpitas to smell like rotten eggs for the last 20 years.

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/19/18273029/milpitas-odor-studi...

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