Posted on 03/31/2019 7:10:57 AM PDT by rktman
The mainstream media has been bombarding Western countries with news about the need to phase out plastic from our daily lives in order to protect the environment, focusing on the World’s oceans. But how much of that plastic is actually the West’s fault? It’s easy to see awareness campaigns about trapped animals in all sorts of trash and wanting to do something in order to prevent it from happening again. Lately, the mainstream media has been on a crusade against the horrors of plastic in developed nations, targeting disposable items such as plastic bags and plastic straws. Are they preaching to the right audience, though? In short – no. If they want their campaign to be effective, the slogans should be written in Mandarin, Hindi or any African language. First of all, the disposal of waste in Western nations (and also other developed countries such as Japan or South Korea) is treated very differently than in developing nations in continents such as Africa and Asia.
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I’m not a water nut. In fact I don’t like water. Need some lemon or lime or something in it for me to drink it. I buy bottled water for our boat. Our 100 gallon tank sits there too long, even with sweetener in it. I won’t drink it or cook with it. Luckily we have a faucet at our dock box so I fill a gallon jug up from it daily. But guests always request water. At home I keep bottled water for visitors. It seems they always request it. I could live without bottled water easily.
Coffee is what makes water taste good.
Heh.. I’ll rinse out ziplock bags to reuse.. I hate being wasteful.
No one talks about good old conservation anymore. The focus MUST be on glowbull warming.
Be prepared, solar scientists are predicting we are entering a mini ice age.
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I’m a coffee nut too. Real coffee. Not that burnt sugar crap they call coffee.
I have checked out this info many times through different sources and if I remember it is about 150 million or so tons of meteorific material....includes micrometeorites. Feel free to corroborate the info...and let me know if I am mistaken. Thanks.
I do that too. Drives my wife nuts.
I double checked some other sources....thanks to your incredulous response...and I probably am mistaken....maybe up to 300 tons per day seems to be the latest info...much lower than my statement said. I was interested in what effect earths weight gain would effect our orbit...it appears to be negligible...over 4 billion years it is approx. 4.4 x 10 to the 14th power tons..earth mass is about 5.5 x 10 to the 24th power tons...thanks again
The first time I encountered this I was SHOCKED. I walked through a park after a weekend illegal alien soccer match.
My God!. It was not just beer cans and wine bottles, but food waste, and dirty loaded baby diapers. Dozens of them! All this scattered wherever the "action" took place. I'm sure adult waste was present for the looking, not something I cared to do.
And there was absolutely no attempt to clean up or organize their filth. That's when I realized that relative to ourselves, these people are animals without any civilization whatsoever. It's becomes pretty obvious why there is such strong class distinction in South America. Their dregs become our illegal alien problem.
This Texan lives four miles from the southwest corner of Arkansas (in Texas, of course...).
I've never observed the AR litter you mention. Would you please be more specific about the locale you cite?
Thanks,
TXnMA
California’s beaches, the heavily used ones, are raked and a lot of garbage is removed by large tractors with the right setup.
They generally are pretty decent, unless things have changed in recent years.
My town in NJ has landfills that each year block more and more of the view of the NCY skyline. Most have closed, a couple are still open, but when they were all running our taxes were bearable. Once we lost those fees (we took garbage from a lot of places), the taxes shot up.
I don’t doubt that in a few decades they’ll be selling homes on top of them; those closed the longest have trees and grass covering them.
Very true; when I visit state parks along the NY/NJ border they are spotless at dawn - and when you leave hours later they are covered in trash blowing all over (these parks primarily serve Third Worlders from northern NYC). NJ beaches are similar; it is worth paying a little more and driving a little further to visit a beach with civilized people on the sand. The closest to the metro NYC area, including increasingly Third World northeastern NJ, is Sandy Hook (a national park) that is cheaper and closer than other areas- so it is a real dump.
The surest sign that Mexican families have been in an area is soiled diapers littering streets or trails. Even if there's a trash can or public bathroom within 10 yards of the site, this and other filth always winds up on the lawn or the road.
And there was absolutely no attempt to clean up or organize their filth. That's when I realized that relative to ourselves, these people are animals without any civilization whatsoever. It's becomes pretty obvious why there is such strong class distinction in South America. Their dregs become our illegal alien problem.
It's pretty obvious why Mexican and other latin American politicians push liberal immigration policies on America so aggressively. It's not just about the remittances, it's about dumping their worst social problems on us.
Heh. My ex-husband was worse than me.. He would rinse and reuse paper coffee filters! Yuck!
When he starts tossing paper plates in the dishwasher, he’s gone over the edge.
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