Posted on 05/30/2018 10:23:20 AM PDT by rktman
Greed. But the crude that goes into sufficient fuel to sail a very large ship across the Atlantic makes me doubt it’s profitable. I guess possible if they were repositioning a ship anyway (drop off European made new cars) return to port (India) with plastics at a reduced rate?
Greed. But the crude that goes into sufficient fuel to sail a very large ship across the Atlantic makes me doubt it’s profitable. I guess possible if they were repositioning a ship anyway (drop off European made new cars) return to port (India) with plastics at a reduced rate?
Interesting what goes on the world today including manufacturing. Here’s an article
on what can be made with recycled plastics. I was unaware that they used recycled
plastic for many items we use daily or even clothes we wear.
https://www.recycleyourplastics.org/consumers/kids-recycling/plastics-can-become/
The cost to Japan to transport ore or petroleum, or even refined products, makes recycled waste competitive.
I’ve said this on FR before: There’s a simple way to know when recycling makes economic sense. When someone offers to buy your trash, you’re there.
Also, long before it reaches that point, existing landfills will become gold mines as its easier to extract the existing buried resources than to gather them all up.
“There is not as much landfill space as you would think.”
Has youse ever been West of the Mighty Miss?
snort...giggle...ROTFLMAO!
My wife wanted to wash a lot of the recyclables before putting them in the bin - I told her that until they started paying her part of the profits, they could wash their own bottles....
Like drinking tap water.
We have mandatory recycling in my county, but I’m not convinced that the truck that picks up the regular garbage only circles the block and then throws in the “recycling”.
Are there recycle cops that check compliance?
I am sure there is plenty of landfill space in WY, MT, NV and many other western states. Yes, I have been to these states more than once. Let me revise my statement.
There is not much landfill space available in NH and many other states close to higher density population centers. Therefore, trash needs to be trucked to some disposal site where there MAY be a savings for segregating different materials.
Some of those looney left polices were for a reason.
Have you ever heard of “Love Canal”? It was a former landfill site in Niagara Falls, NY. They buried barrels of chemicals in a landfill. Then covered it over and built a school and houses on top. Then everybody in the neighborhood started get cancer.
I grew up south of Buffalo, NY so I remember this from my childhood. I also remember when the river in Cleveland caught on fire because all the chemicals that were being dumped into it. A lot of the government policies in place today were because of things like this that happened in the past.
I am sure there is plenty of landfill space in NV, WY, SD, ND, MT, KS, TX, etc.
Not too cost effective to truck trash from NYC, Hartford, CT or NH to these places. Therefore, we are limited to where our trash can be disposed of within a reasonable distance from where it is collected.
There maybe less demand for things like newsprint going forward. There is only so much bonded cellulose insulation being produced. I believe it is also used for hydroseeding products. If there is no demand for a commodity then it should not be recycled.
Those things have nothing to do with recycling. Your breathless, “everybody got cancer” is completely wrong and illustrates how the left feeds on emotions and ignores facts, logic, and reason.
You do understand that the government permits, literally issues a permit allowing pollution to be discharged? Do you understand that we have a common law right to clean air and water and that the government aids and abets pollution? Most of the Looney Left policies are design to fix other Loony left policies.
There is plenty of space for landfills in every state. Running out of space in landfills is a completely separate issue. Liberals could create a landfill shortage in Texas.
NY and most of New England don’t have landfills for the same reason their electric and gas rates are 40% higher on average then the rest of the nation.
We have plenty of landfills here in NE. Most of them are capped. Many have polluted the ground water around them. My town is currently paying to extend town water to about 35 houses where their wells became polluted by an old landfill.
So, you are correct I do not want a landfill in my backyard. I also do not want a coal fired electric plant in my back yard. I would prefer to import the excess KW that the St. Lawrence hydroelectric plants produce in Quebec. FYI, I voted to install a 3’ natural gas line through my town. I also burn wood pellets to heat my home in the winter.
There is a polluted area that is/was the responsibilty of Dartmouth U.
> There is far more landfill space than you can possibly imagine.
1. Consider our Interstate system. We deliberately laid down a zillion miles of toxic petroleum asphalt. This is ground already turned into environmental waste. No consider the space between the two strips of asphalt. This median area is a potential zillion miles of dumping space for garbage. Add some dirt. Top with trees.
2. Consider the Grand Canyon. Suppose evil man created this canyon and not the Colorado river. This would be considered the ugliest place on earth, if it was believed that man dug the hole. So let’s fill that sucker in with garbage, then top it with dirt and plant some trees.
Sarcasm?
How about using some of the millions of acres of truly waste land?
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