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The 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 a
by ilaksh 3y ago
The 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).