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Yes. When did we start thinking that there is something wrong with the landfill. A properly managed landfill is a perfectly responsible way to dispose of plas
by jacob019 7y ago
Yes. When did we start thinking that there is something wrong with the landfill. A properly managed landfill is a perfectly responsible way to dispose of plastic. Get the oil from the ground, make it into useful things, then put it back when we're done.
- catalogia 7y ago> When did we start thinking that there is something wrong with the landfill. In the 80s from what I understand, in response to the Mobro 4000 incident: https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-environmentalism/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/01/01/what-happened-to-90s-e...
- iforgotpassword 7y agoMaybe I'm just and old gnarly dude, maybe I focus on the bad parts of society too much, but I don't trust the people running these kinds of things enough. At the end of the day it's still capitalism, you might be budget restricted, you want to pay yourself a bigger bonus, whatever. I don't trust that even just the majority of landfills are constructed to contain the waste long enough. And what incentive should you have to build them that way? It's enough if they hold up until you retire from your management position. Maybe if you have some sort of moral values you might think of your grandchildren and add a couple years. But after that, who cares. Long gone, somebody else's problem.