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People love to "what if" landfills. Best to not bother arguing with them. We have tons of problems with emissions, plastics pollution, industrial dumping. Howev
by stjohnswarts 4y ago
People love to "what if" landfills. Best to not bother arguing with them. We have tons of problems with emissions, plastics pollution, industrial dumping. However landfills ain't one of them, but people won't give up. I've learned to not bother discussing anything with them if they don't know a few basics of how modern landfills are run (at least in western nations).
- TylerE 4y agoLandfills were demonized for a long time because they were easy targets.
- formerly_proven 4y agoIt's usually just disguised NIMBY-ism :)
- bigfudge 4y agoThe thing about nimbyism in this case is that confortable commentators on hackernews are vanishingly unlikely ever to have to live near one. This is a poor people problem.
- astrange 4y agoThere’s a famous landfill right in Silicon Valley though; it’s caused Milpitas to smell like rotten eggs for the last 20 years. https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/19/18273029/milpitas-odor-studies-city-council-smell-stink-study https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/19/18273029/milpitas-odor-studi...
- not2b 4y agoAs others have mentioned they are a major source of methane emission, though this can be addressed (do a better job separating out food waste and compost it).