Stop Landfills

[JustSomePerson888]

9 people are evil litterbugs

[EvP1228]

@justsomeperson888 thank you for clearing that up

[JustSomePerson888]

@EvP1228 - oh right, cheers. as usual this website didn't bother telling me you replied...

[HectorJCedillo]

Actually landfills are not the problem! Most modern landfills are a little more complicated than just putting trash in a hole! A typical landfill that fallows code and laws can can be collect leachate and keep it from entering water systems! Also methane gas caused from all the trash decomposing is now collected from landfills is converted to electric energy! Sure the idea of a world of recycling would be very believable to be a great solution. But in all reality half the world wont recycle!

[JustSomePerson888]

@HectorJCedillo - garbage. if they can solve it with 'high tech' then what is the problem with producing so much waste in the first place then? there shouldn't be anything being produced that isn't biodegradable safely, or recyclable, or reusable, or compostable.

The only evolved way forward is to recognise that fact, and not actually produce things that don't fall into those categories. As for what is there already, which is bedsores on the Earths body, fire it into the Sun!?

[JustSomePerson888]

@HectorJCedillo - or bury it into the mantle? there isn't any other option than something of that type, in terms of actually removing the problem. transmutation is the only other way, if you were somehow able to change the garbages state to that of the frequency of a desired atom or compound, and re-solidify it into that. so to speak.

[shibuknair]

Dear friend,

Thanks for your attention. Actually by burrying the waste, we are eating the waste or absorbing and accumulating in our body throug the water we are drinking, the air we breath and the food we eat. So burrying is not solving the problem of waste.

[halflifeh]

No offense but what will we do with the waste.......eat it? I guess we have to bury it for safety. True recycle what we can but bury useless things.

[govindwarier]

Decentralised Management of Waste is being done at Panaji (Goa). But, de-centralised management of waste is not prescribed by the manual on Solid waste management. it porposes only centralised processing & disposal facilities.

[shibuknair]

@govindwarier

Dear friend, MSW 2000 Rule do not prohibit decentralised waste management or resource recovery. It specifies that all organic should be treated using biological method, all recyclables should be sent for recycling and only inerts should be landfilled.

shibu

[respectourworld]

true

[FullFledged2010]

and stop having lots of kids...

[FullFledged2010]

i better title would be: stop buying shit you don't use!

[mainehaula]

I haul ash from an incinerator..22 tons per load to a landfill.They use it as cover at the end of the day.No harm done there....job security!!

[MrBCAkid]

Please join my facebook group "Don't Be Trashy. Recycle." It is to spread the word and it is also a project for my biology class. Send it to everyone you know. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!!

[EvP1228]

doesn't ash make good fertilizer? so if trash is burnt can't it be used?

[shibuknair]

@EvP1228 please visit website of GAIA for the info on problems associated with waste incineration. thanks

[JustSomePerson888]

@EvP1228 - absolutely not. ash from organic matter is ok of course, though still has carbon etc emissions (which of course isn't an issue - if organic matter was the only type ever being burned (reasonable amounts). but it isn't), but the majority of landfill waste is toxic as it is, to burn it releases all those toxins into the air, and from there they pollute the air and end up in the seas and land again too.

you may wish to look up 'biochar'.

[LibbyTickles]

I just watched this for my chemistry coursework, and i don't understand why we don't just burn everything we can. I do think that we are all contributing though and no one person can change it. Lets just hope we're dead before anything really bad happens to the world.

[VolvoFH12580]

you could burn the lot yeah but what you going to do with the ash after its been burnt, bury it ?

[shibuknair]

@VolvoFH12580 please visit website of GAIA for the info on problems associated with waste incineration. thanks

[Jorgen87]

@VolvoFH12580 use it as energy for houses all around =)

We have a motto here "light and heat makes energy for Oslo"

all the trash around here is being burned in a large faclicty where the trash is soon being energy to houses all around the area..

[shibuknair]

@LibbyTickles please visit the website of GAIA for the info on problems associated with waste incineration. thanks

[1888junkteam]

excellent work!

[b1ke4l1fe]

ah ha watta load of bollocks man it is possible to plant trees in land fill sites for there is alot of nutrition givin out in the decomposing waste and why care about this when canser and other things r utmost importance

[supergarbageman]

whack

[shibuknair]

Dear friend,

This is the reality. It is happening all over the world. I made it to show the distance between, science in Text book and in the field. These environmental engineers and scientists are prostituting science by fooling us. No matter, whether it is in India or in rest of the world it is same. U.S. EPA itself did studies to reveal that no landfill is safe from leaking!!

Let us ask right questions. How better can we manage our resource to conserve our environment for a public good?

[1kingconan]

correct! keep spreading the word to the ignorant people outhere!

[pablodiablonegro]

This video shows the worst of landfill. Education is the key. People ans companies also need to be incentivised to use less packaging. even incineration accompanied with energy production, as well as many biomass systems peoduce a residue which has to be landfilled. eventually landfill will only be a small part of waste management. Until then - when people learn to respect their environment - we are stuck with it.

Modern landfill methods are light years ahead of what we see in this video.

[gault72]

Actually I found one on youtube. Its called the arrowbio process where you dump the garbage into a water filled pit and with the use of conveyor belts and machinary the system sorts out the recyclables then creates energy, biogas and fertilizer with the remaining material.Looks promising.

[gault72]

Alternatives ?

[shibuknair]

Of course not. There is no alternative for landfills. But there are right ways for efficient resource utilisation and conservation. We have to shift from existing, take-make-waste practice to ethical,efficient and economical ways of resource use and sharing practices for a better toxic free future. Support Zero Waste! Campaign for Clean Production and Extended Producer Responsibility..

Love and peace

Shibu

[SauceKedez]

Man only 2,195 views...(feb.28, 2008)

Its okay maybe one someday we'll recycle more i doubt it cause I myself dont recycle much

i dont like the music

[Wiltsky]

If you are interested in more check out my group RecycleNowPeople (Wiltsky Scoiety) on myspace if not please do your part in decreasing pollution and global warming. Thank you.

[Wiltsky]

Most of all you could even donate profits of recycling to Cancer Organizations, Aids Relief ect. whatever you want. In creating a recycling plant you create jobs for the unemployed and better jobs for the garbage men and healthier for them and the plantet giving them a good feeling about there jobs.

[Wiltsky]

Many people from different parts of the world use this waste as a better source of power to generate electricity. It is alot better than burying it underground only to have a problem later with it. Recycling a large percentage of what goes into landfills can be used to benefit yourself if you have money problems with college, living, and if you need some money to buy some food or whatever the point is that when you recycle you can benefit yourself you can benefit the environment.

[ballg]

how can we stop land fills efficiently? in hawaii kauai there is no debate whatsoever. no one is thinking of recycling, they are just thinking of where they should put the new landfill. money wise and an way that would ensure the people working for the garbage companies still get work. sounds impossible to many.

[shibuknair]

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