[ClearCase_guy]

We used to burn most of this stuff. We should go back to that for most of this stuff.

[arrogantsob]

Dr Seuss showed decades ago that there is no removing pollution it is just transferred from one medium after another.

[cuban leaf]

That’s what I do now. I burn everything that will burn, and drop the cans, glass, etc. in public trash recepticles. I live in the sticks but work in a city where I pay a county income tax. That’s the service they offer me with my tax dollars: free trash disposal.

Truth be told, it’s easier than having curbside, since the “curb” is 1/4 mile from my house. And not much of my trash is not burnable. A wal-mart plastic bag every three to five days does it.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"We used to burn most of this stuff. We should go back to that for most of this stuff."

EnviroMENTAList response...

[Sacajaweau]

I agree...We had one in our area. Plastics became a problem...but the system was generally efficient.

[NorthMountain]

Fairfax County, VA burns its trash in a 80MW electric power plant. Metals are extracted before and after the burn, the ash is landfilled.

[Ancesthntr]

“We used to burn most of this stuff. We should go back to that for most of this stuff.”

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A few years ago I was visiting family in the NY area (from which I escaped in 2000, thank God). We passed through the Fresh Kills area of Staten Island, where they had YUUUUUGE mountains of trash layered in a landfill with lime. My then 7 Y.O. son looked in wonder at the literal mountains of trash, and about 10 minutes later said, “I know what to do with all of that garbage!” “Yeah, what.” “Build a big conveyor belt and throw it all down a volcano, where it’ll burn up.”

You know, that’s really not a bad idea...a bit impractical, but near genius for someone that age.

Meanwhile, I keep recycling to reduce the volume of my regular trash, because if I mix them and have to use the blue recycling bin for regular trash, the city-employed Trash Nazis (in Texas, FFS!) will fine me (I’ve already gotten a warning).

[rktman]

👍🏼🔥. Prohibited where I am. But I do single stream waste management. EVERYTHING goes in a single hobie and the trash guy tosses it in the truck with the claw.