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Where does the garbage get moved too? What if the least societally harmful place for waste is the middle of the pacific ?
by vincefutr23 2y ago
Where does the garbage get moved too? What if the least societally harmful place for waste is the middle of the pacific ?
- troyvit 2y agoLandfills really aren't so bad. Article from a previous HN post: https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/9/3/the-hidden-engineering-of-landfills https://practical.engineering/blog/2024/9/3/the-hidden-engin...
- interactivecode 2y agoWhy would contaminating the environment of a major food supply be the least harmful place? how is that better than purpose built infrastructure to contain that trash?
- vincefutr23 2y agois there any commercial fishing in the middle of the pacific? Why is it better to ship it to leech into the groundwater near population centers ?
- alnwlsn 2y agoLandfills. Theoceancleanup's own figure is that there is 100,000 tonnes of plastic. This one [0] landfill in Ohio gets 2 million tonnes each year. That's out of ~250 million tonnes produced by the US each year [1]. So it seems there is plenty of room. 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpke_Sanitary_Landfill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumpke_Sanitary_Landfill 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfills_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfills_in_the_United_States
- vincefutr23 2y agoSo the plan is to spend 7 billion and however much carbon over 10 years to move pollutants from the middle of the Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles from anyone or any rich fisheries, to landfills near population centers?
- jppittma 2y agoWell, water is a solvent and dirt isn’t. That’s probably the reason why oil isn’t harmful in the ground and it is harmful when it’s spilled in the ocean.
- vincefutr23 2y agoThere’s plenty of water in dirt. Except it’s water next door to population centers using it, not thousands of miles from anyone in the ocean