Posted on 01/22/2018 7:23:27 AM PST by BenLurkin
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, nestled along Guanabara Bay and within sight of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, one of the world's largest open-air landfills has closed after more than three decades of operation.
The landfill, known as Jardim Gramacho or Gramacho Gardens, is piled almost 300 feet high across 14 million square feet -- the equivalent of 244 American football fields. It is the largest landfill in Brazil and all of South America. Built in the late 1970s, it received close to 8,000 tons of trash daily, 70% of all the trash in the Rio metro area.
The closure comes less than three weeks before the United Nations' RIO+20 summit, where world representatives will gather to take a direct look at sustainable solutions for the Earth's environment. The move also comes in advance of Rio's preparations to host the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Summer Olympics.
It's part of a continuing effort led by Rio's state environment minister to close all of the area's five official open-air landfills -- as well as an unknown number of clandestine ones -- by 2014.
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Updated 4:21 PM ET, Tue June 5, 2012............................
Article is from 2012 !!
From today: https://www.wsj.com/articles/brazil-closes-giant-pile-of-trash-depriving-residents-of-a-treasure-1516617000
**On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, nestled along Guanabara Bay and within sight of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue,**
It’s just a graven image that can’t even see the birds that crap on it, let alone a dump site miles away.
I read the whole thing and nowhere do they reveal any new destination for all that garbage.
“It’s just a graven image that can’t even see the birds that crap on it, let alone a dump site miles away.”
Idiot, you can see the dump from the statue.
https://www.askideas.com/50-most-incredible-pictures-of-the-christ-the-redeemer-statue-in-brazil/
“On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, nestled along Guanabara Bay and within sight of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue...”
They are NOT referring to the statue as if it had the gift of sight. If they were, they would have said “...within THE sight of the iconic Christ the Redeemer statue...”. Instead, they refer to “within sight OF THE” statue - meaning the general area, the platform of the statue, and NOT referring to the statue itself as if it has the gift of sight.
Reading. It’s fundamental.
A YouTube trailer here Talk about a sh!thole!
The highest spot in my county is “Mount Landfill”. It towers over the surrounding terrain.
My prediction -—
The ‘harvesting’ of methane at new facilities will be a failure, exposing fraudulent promises of money generated for poverty relief/drug eradication.
The ‘recycling’ of polluted water generated will prove to be a pathogen vector for disease and swiftly abandoned. Once the world-attentive games are over, landfills will quietly go back into use and trash-pickers back into business.
10-4, snowflake. Just breaking the boredom in the truck, while at the loading dock, seeing if I can trigger any of Jezebel’a priests.
Central il near I-55?
And I’m more than happy to teach you basic English, moron. Even bigots like yourself, a product of a government programming school no doubt, should be able to read basic texts. A mind is a terrible thing to waste. In your case, maybe there was nothing to be wasted.
Ok....you’re upset....... please don’t cut yourself!
“Ok....you’re upset....... please don’t cut yourself!”
I’m not upset, but you are a moron. And you keep proving it.
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