Posted on 11/20/2019 5:24:41 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
The Jiangcungou landfill in Shaanxi Province, which is the size of around 100 football fields, was designed to take 2,500 tonnes of rubbish per day.
But instead it received 10,000 tonnes of waste per day - the most of any landfill site in China.
China is one of the world's biggest polluters, and has been struggling for years with the rubbish its 1.4 billion citizens generate. How big is the landfill site?
The Jiangcungou landfill in Xi'an city was built in 1994 and was designed to last until 2044.
The landfill serves over 8 million citizens. It spans an area of almost 700,000 square metres, with a depth of 150 metres and a storage capacity of more than 34 million cubic metres.
Until recently, Xi'an was one of the few cities in China that solely relied on landfill to dispose of household waste - leading to capacity being reached early.
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The country had 654 landfill sites and 286 incineration plants.
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In 2015, there was a landslide at a rubbish dump in the southern city of Shenzhen, killing 73 people. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The dump was designed to hold four million cubic metres worth of rubbish, with a maximum height of 95 metres.
When it collapsed, it was holding 5.8m cubic metres of material with waste heaps up to 160m high. Image caption One town in Malaysia was left swamped with foreign waste Does China deal with other countries' waste?
Not anymore. It used to, until the end of 2017 when it decided to ban the import of 24 different grades of rubbish.
In 2017 alone, China took in seven million tonnes of plastic rubbish from Europe, Japan and the US - and 27 million tonnes of waste paper.
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Its all those chinese food containers.. They take up a lot of room.
I have said many times that Idiocracy has come to real life 500 years early.
It was conceived, engineered, and executed by a communist party centralized government committee.
The result is typical.
I have had that movie on my list for a while to add to my collection...I have a collection that has movies like “12 O’Clock High”, “The Caine Mutiny”, “The Best Years of Our Lives”, “Casablanca”, “Team America” and so on...”Idiocracy” is one I want to own!
Fresh Garbage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7MQ5rxUZsc
Add 1984 from 1954, 1956 & 1984 to your list. Also the Atlas Shrugged movies and Fahrenheit 451 from 1966 & 2018. Cautionary tales mistaken for instruction manuals.
LOL, those are all in my BOOK library!
Cautionary Tales taken for instructional manuals indeed. I find it somewhat depressing to see things right out of “1984” and “Atlas Shrugged” appearing in the news as current events...:(
Many many cautionary tales to add to your library A good example is “THE TOM-BOY WHO WAS CHANGED INTO A REAL BOY” http://www1.assumption.edu/whw/workshop/ChildrensLiterature.html
Apparently China is no longer accepting our recyclables. Wonder where they are going now.
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