I'm a little depressed.
Landfills can be interesting places. To see where all the crap goes from whatever city you liver in. It is always remarkable. The amount of trash we can generate is amazing and disgusting. The callousness with which people throw stuff away is even more so. Obviously, more people need to visit their local trash hole.
Besides that I am completely against even having landfills (especially out of sight and out of mind; if we actually lived with this, you can bet that we would treat it better.) we don't run them very well. One thing I learned while I was there is that trash cannot be sold for some cheap price.
It seems in our best interest to allow it to be. If trash could be repossessed no only would it not be thrown away and thus end its cycle, but it would benefit someone who would otherwise have to buy new, something we should all avoid.
I propose several changes to the system before phasing it out entirely:
1: put them in our backyard instead of out of sight and out of mind. We don't want to live in trash, then we don't generate trash.
2: put in every opportunity to re-purpose anything that does make it to the landfill. The scale of this can grow and grow and grow until "landfills" are actually recycling centers.
3: part of the ability to run such a more complicated landfill can be re-purposing criminals. I am a fan of convict labour. If no one else will do it, make them do it for free. Instead of rotting in jail they can make something out of their life.
4: Sell anything that is still viably useful. It will generate income, value, and cut down on the need for landfills in the first place.
5: outlaw the plastic bag from grocers. They are the fucking plague. They go everywhere. At our landfill in Gunnison, they one guy who works there all the time spends 15-20 hours a week just picking up plastic bags. This burden, now that it has been collected, should be put back on the grocers who make them. Use re-useable bags or none at all. "Containerism" is the future.
6: do not kill the crows that fly around the trash. If we don't want them to become "contaminated" then lets stop generating such a massive-scale trash heap. It is our fault, we should reap the pain.
There's probably a lot more we could do, but this is the end of this little vent.
Landfills can be interesting places. To see where all the crap goes from whatever city you liver in. It is always remarkable. The amount of trash we can generate is amazing and disgusting. The callousness with which people throw stuff away is even more so. Obviously, more people need to visit their local trash hole.
Besides that I am completely against even having landfills (especially out of sight and out of mind; if we actually lived with this, you can bet that we would treat it better.) we don't run them very well. One thing I learned while I was there is that trash cannot be sold for some cheap price.
It seems in our best interest to allow it to be. If trash could be repossessed no only would it not be thrown away and thus end its cycle, but it would benefit someone who would otherwise have to buy new, something we should all avoid.
I propose several changes to the system before phasing it out entirely:
1: put them in our backyard instead of out of sight and out of mind. We don't want to live in trash, then we don't generate trash.
2: put in every opportunity to re-purpose anything that does make it to the landfill. The scale of this can grow and grow and grow until "landfills" are actually recycling centers.
3: part of the ability to run such a more complicated landfill can be re-purposing criminals. I am a fan of convict labour. If no one else will do it, make them do it for free. Instead of rotting in jail they can make something out of their life.
4: Sell anything that is still viably useful. It will generate income, value, and cut down on the need for landfills in the first place.
5: outlaw the plastic bag from grocers. They are the fucking plague. They go everywhere. At our landfill in Gunnison, they one guy who works there all the time spends 15-20 hours a week just picking up plastic bags. This burden, now that it has been collected, should be put back on the grocers who make them. Use re-useable bags or none at all. "Containerism" is the future.
6: do not kill the crows that fly around the trash. If we don't want them to become "contaminated" then lets stop generating such a massive-scale trash heap. It is our fault, we should reap the pain.
There's probably a lot more we could do, but this is the end of this little vent.
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