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When I was living in Kenya around 2013, open pit burning was the main way of dealing with trash... And included a lot of plastics, batteries, you name it.
by sdenton4 3y ago
When I was living in Kenya around 2013, open pit burning was the main way of dealing with trash... And included a lot of plastics, batteries, you name it.
- deaddodo 3y agoWhen I was in Armenia last year, this was the modus operandi for removing large amounts of trash also. Just throw it on the side of the road and burn it in heaps.
- jjeaff 3y agothat's how most of rural America still gets rid of trash.
- wyclif 3y agoIt used to be 50 years ago. But the state where I'm from banned burning trash decades ago. I'm not saying people don't ever do it, but if you get caught you can be fined.
- mlrtime 3y agoAnd is this something read somewhere, or a friend of a friend told you in NYC? This is 100% false that most of rural America still burns trash. I grew up on a farm, we burnt trash and stopped before I barely remember seeing any fires. Not because we are environmentalist, but because we were told to stop just like everyone else in the state.
- dghughes 3y agoPeople in rural areas here in Canada do that now in 2024.
- wyclif 3y agoSame in a lot of developing countries. I'm in the Philippines right now and I've seen this not only here, but in other SE Asian countries. Of course, when I do, I seek to get as far away from it as possible as quickly as possible. It doesn't seem like the local governments do anything about it even when it's reported.