They made the island a cesspool, and still live on it.
It’s an ISLAND ‘Mon!
If EVER there was a place where Thermal Depolymerization made sense this would be it.
Turn the trash into oil and raw materials.
Yes, there would be a cost.
NOT getting this under control has cost too.
he’s right, the problem is the greed of the PR Government and Politicians…
Yes, but it was a stupid joke, and it is hurting Trump at exactly the wrong time.
World War II was over in less than six.
So it wasn’t a joke, it was an environmental appeal?
With any landfill with a liner it’s not a question of IF the liner will leak, but WHEN.The Puerto Ricans could get more landfill airspace by shredding their waste with industrial shredders and improved compaction. They could also benefit by methane gas recovery systems,but both technologies are expensive. Investments the leftist rulers of that island may not be willing to make.
Don’t worry. President Jamaican ho will send barges down to PR to load their garbage and bring it back to dump on Hitler, Hitler, Hitler America.
Singapore is a much smaller island and they don’t have a trash problem at all. They incinerate their MSW and use the steam for making electricity. The ash is only 5% the mass and like 1% the volume of the original waste it gets used for concrete or put in a lined landfill pit at very high packing density it’s rock like when packed down. They have scrubbers and particulate filters in the stacks the air coming out is cleaner than any Chinese coal plant. So just ask the Singaporeans for some tech help and get about solving the problem.
Don’t care...
A bad joke that even the audience groaned when he delivered it.
Honestly who cares... don’t care about the joke, the insane reaction by the left over it, or the folks who feel they need to defend it....
Its all nonsense.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/14/570927809/after-maria-puerto-rico-struggles-under-the-weight-of-its-own-garbage
https://www.ecorichenv.com/article/puerto-rico-landfill-problems
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https://grist.org/extreme-weather/disaster-debris-is-pushing-puerto-ricos-landfills-to-the-brink/
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https://www.recycling-magazine.com/2021/03/19/fixing-the-caribbeans-solid-waste-problem/
https://insidesources.com/landfill-crisis-puerto-rico-governor-epa/
https://insidesources.com/tag/puerto-rico-landfill-crisis/
https://www.waste360.com/landfill/puerto-rico-landfills-is-the-problem-around-capacity-or-noncompliance-
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-and-doj-settlement-will-address-problems-toa-alta-landfill
https://pasquines.us/2018/01/04/puerto-ricos-trash-problem/