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"Superfund" seems to be what we call contaminated land from industrial waste?
by thinkloop 9y ago
"Superfund" seems to be what we call contaminated land from industrial waste?
- dqpb 9y agoThat's a really stupid name (or maybe really smart if your a politician). Should be called Supertoxic.
- gowld 9y agoSuperfund refers to the super amount of funds spent to clean up the messes.
- klipt 9y agoBut they haven't cleaned them up?
- coldacid 9y agoWith a lot of these substances, cleaning them up doesn't just cost a lot of money, it also takes a lot of time.
- knowaveragejoe 9y agoSome have been.
- galdosdi 9y agoOnce they're totally cleaned up they're no longer superfund sites. This is like looking at my list of _open_ bug tickets and complaining that not a single one of them is done. That said, it can be hard to get a lot of these sites all the way to 100% cleaned up, and there's a lot of non-engineering obstacles. There's landowners and neighbors with all kinds of differing incentives, as in a Queens, NY site where they want to dig up and get rid of some radiation but there are businesses who have already been built atop it and would have to be destroyed.
- jpm_sd 9y agoThe "Superfund" is a set of regulations that allow EPA to force polluters to pay for long term chemical waste cleanups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund
- mcguire 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund It's the colloquial term for the EPA program that registers and theoretically gets the polluters to pay for contaminated sites.