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07-14-2019, 01:12 PM | #1 |
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Contrarian: landfills are better than you think
What you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrong via archive.org link to avoid paywall... or, if you prefer,
What you think about landfill and recycling is probably totally wrong via the original medium.com link if you don't mind paywalls A well-researched and sourced piece. His nine points are:
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Further on in the same article it talks about Leachate(bad water) and Methane(Bada Boom) coming from the site and the possibility of screwing up groundwater, so all this must be monitored and handled. Then it says when the site is full up and closed down they must monitor the site for another 30 years. Yet some of the things in that landfill will take centuries to break down. Are they saying the things breaking down after 30 years aren't a problem?
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07-18-2019, 05:47 PM | #3 |
I think this line's mostly filler.
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I think the bags and straws are more of an old-fashioned pollution issue; along the lines of cigarette butts (ubiquitous garbage) or can rings (specifically dangerous to sea life due to shape).
Plus, when intersecting them with the question of recycling, they both are actually quite bad for recycling machines, as they are light enough to gum up the works and stretch and melt into machinery rather than break into chips and proceed along the conveyor.
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