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Yes, so we are shipping our garbage to other countries now.
by protonfish 8y ago
Yes, so we are shipping our garbage to other countries now.
- jhowell 8y agoLooking at you continent of Africa...
- carapace 8y agoWe aren't forcing it on anybody. They buy it, ship it, and make $$$. "Junkyard Planet, Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade" by Adam Minter > Minter traces the export of America's recyclables and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of consumption, innovation, and the ascent of a developing world that recognizes value where Americans don't. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/junkyard-planet-9781608197910/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/junkyard-planet-9781608197910/
- acct1771 8y agoThere's at least one nation that gets most, if not all, of their power from burning other nation's trash. Having a hard time remembering which, perhaps a Scandinavian country.
- Moru 8y agoSweden has since a long time been working on building out central heating for whole cities, connected to garbage/oil/electricity plants (with good filtering of gases). While doing this network of hot water pipes all over the place we also put down fiber so on top of it we have access to minimum 100 Mbps internet almost everywhere, even out in the northern forests. Our small town was doing this already 20 years ago, only 3000-odd inhabitants. Now we live in a bigger town and this area was built already new with central heating from the power plants about 15 years ago. Garbage dumps have mostly been closed down and we recycle and compost what we can't burn. We also import garbage from our neighbors to burn. Handling our old dump sites is a problem still though, a lot of toxins there.