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These kind of places always seem so surreal. They’re like a place you’re not supposed to go, a place where deleted things end up. No humans around except for a
by deadbabe 3y ago
These kind of places always seem so surreal. They’re like a place you’re not supposed to go, a place where deleted things end up. No humans around except for a few scavengers. Where are some other interesting remote dumping grounds like this where piles of discarded items just sit around abandoned? Is there a dry desert somewhere with a bunch of old beige computers just laying around?
- card_zero 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_video_game_burial ?
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- amenhotep 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_and_Regeneration_Group https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/309th_Aerospace_Maintenance_an... springs to mind, although it doesn't quite fit the bill!
- ilaksh 3y agoThe weird thing to me is that we have those places everywhere and don't think twice about it. The only difference is that we cover the garbage with dirt. They are called "landfills" but they are really just mountains of garbage.
- Dalewyn 3y agoSometimes we even give them really nice names: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumenoshima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumenoshima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeshima https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumeshima (Both places' names translate to Dream Island.)
- II2II 3y agoThere are other differences. The garbage being discussed was sorted, baled, and shipped to markets with the pretense that it was going the be recycled or reused. (To be fair, a fraction of it was.) It diverted garbage away from our landfills, dumping it where it was beyond "out of sight, out of mind." The intent is entirely different.
- Toutouxc 3y agoActual landfills are, at least where I live, heavily regulated and use quite a lot of technology and engineering to minimize their impact. And landfilling itself is actually being abandoned here, AFAIK you can’t start a new landfill anymore and the costs of landfilling will be artificially jacked up in order to soften the final ban in ~6 years.
- thfuran 3y agoMeaning you're about to start exporting a lot of garbage to jurisdictions with laxer regulations on landfills?
- oskarw85 3y agoExactly. Such a policy doesn't do anything to curb the amount of waste. It just shifts it to poorer regions and lines Mafia pockets with money
- Toutouxc 3y agoIdeally this should lead to an uptick in recycling and switch the rest to incineration (and electricity generation).
- pjsg 3y agoA film (well worth watching) about this sort of place is Manufactured Landscapes: https://archive.org/details/ManufacturedLandscapes_201902 https://archive.org/details/ManufacturedLandscapes_201902 -- you don't really get the whole scale of things until you see something like this. Trivia note: This movie has the longest opening tracking shot of any movie of the time (according to a film professor friend).
- deadbabe 3y agoThank you! I will try to watch it :)
- latentcall 3y agoRemember watching this maybe 15 years ago. Really impactful film.
- plastic3169 3y agoSorry to get stuck on your trivia note. What is the definition of a tracking shot? Russian Ark by Sokurov from 2002 is one continous 87 minute take.
- deadbabe 3y agoThe movie 1917 is one continuous 2 hour take.
- autoexec 3y agoIf you mean this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_(2019_film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_(2019_film) it was many long shots edited to look like two continuous takes (there's a deliberate fade to black at one point). According to this (https://theasc.com/articles/lives-under-siege-the-goldfinch-and-1917 https://theasc.com/articles/lives-under-siege-the-goldfinch-...) it was filmed over four months.
- skhunted 3y agoGarbage can be found just about anywhere now. There is a TV show called Alone where people try to survive off the land in remote locations. There’s a limit to how much stuff a person can bring with them but they are allowed to use any items they find. In almost every season someone finds something that was dumped. The whole world is becoming a garbage dump. There are giant garbage patches in the oceans now. It’s disconcerting that we have done so much damage to the planet.