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China uses perfume to sweeten landfill
upi ^ | March 26

Posted on 03/27/2010 1:49:09 AM PDT by JoeProBono

Beijing officials hope spraying perfume from 100 high-pressure nozzles around a major landfill can temporarily end complaints about the stink.

City officials also promise to cover the Asuwei dump with more layers of plastic, The Guardian reports. People living near the landfill say the smell is almost unbearable when the wind is blowing from the dump.

Getting rid of the trash generated by China's growing economy and prosperity is a difficult problem, especially in Beijing, where 17 million people live. Photographer Wang Jiuliang has spent a year taking pictures of the 200 landfills circling the city in what he calls "Beijing's seventh ring."

"People are forced to use these places for dumps and landfills. There is no better place," he says. "China has become a consumer society over the past 10 or 20 years. The authorities are working hard to solve the garbage problem, but it has emerged too quickly."


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: china; jpb; perfume

1 posted on 03/27/2010 1:49:09 AM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

lol


2 posted on 03/27/2010 2:24:30 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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To: JoeProBono

They should cover it and use pumping to put it under negative pressure. As a bonus they could harvest a goodly amount of methane that way.


3 posted on 03/27/2010 2:28:42 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

Where you at bro?


4 posted on 03/27/2010 2:29:01 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

5 posted on 03/27/2010 2:30:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

6 posted on 03/27/2010 2:31:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Chinese parents will soon tell their children not to be so wasteful because people in America are doing without food and medicine.


7 posted on 03/27/2010 2:32:46 AM PDT by Brugmansian
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To: Brugmansian
LOL!


8 posted on 03/27/2010 2:36:17 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace
Hot garbage covered in gallons of perfume? The french and other variations of eurotrash would smell feel right at home.
9 posted on 03/27/2010 3:03:32 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: Repeat Offender

what?


10 posted on 03/27/2010 3:06:24 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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To: happinesswithoutpeace

In reference to europeans that don’t bathe.... just cover themselves with gallons of perfume. The same ###holes, cheering the socialist demise of the US while they live in the comfort and security of our military shadow...... you know eurotrash.


11 posted on 03/27/2010 3:19:28 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy Saints surrounded)
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To: JoeProBono

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXKxAg6g_j0


12 posted on 03/27/2010 3:22:36 AM PDT by happinesswithoutpeace (1.416785(71) x 10^32)
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