Nah – they’d just smuggle it back with the illegal immigrants they are sending here!
Yeah. Not an altogether horrible idea, but I see too many impediments.
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any “hole” chosen would have to be vetted ecologically. Expensive.
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some holes, such as mines, would involve a lot of extra work to get the garbage INTO them. Landfills can be used by driving up to the edge and pressing the dump button. Filling a mine, even if it weren’t flooded, would involve transferring the trash to another conveyance small enough to go down whatever elevator system was used to bring the ore up, then transported at the fill level, to the furthest reaches of the mine.
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already pointed out, the holes have to be located conveniently to be low cost enough.
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someone recently (and I’m sure at other times) talked about sinkholes as potential dump ports, but they would have similar concerns, with the additional difficulty that the trash would have to be processed before dumping, so that it would behave (compact) the same way that dirt and gravel would, since sink holes usually appear in places where we would want to be able to build on them later.
But overall, as I said, it’s probably worth looking in to, in some places.
My own thinking these days, is less concerned with working on new dump sites, and more on focusing on finding ways to start mining older dump sites efficiently, to recycle everything we’ve already dumped.
Actually, the Colorado River wouldn’t carry trash to Mexico, because by the time it gets to Mexico, there’s no river any more. It all gets diverted for use by people before that point.
No one has mention the problem of actually moving all the garbage down into said abandoned mine, and trying to compact it in there, the cost involved etc.
You cant just simply dump it in
Who is going to spend their day in a hole 5 miles deep in a tunnel full of compressed rotting pampers for minimum wage?
The trash would be carried to San Diego … so what’s your point? … [giggle] …
Yeah yeah but with the larger ones they realised that it had to be drained , at least,
so they didn’t just stick it at the bottom… that would create a hole full of odourous soup right ? And when it eventually gets covered over, its very unsable and quickly became uneven ground .
So they learnt to put it on the side of a hill. So if there is polution leaking from old dumps, they can now put a diversion in so that the waterways below are not poluted.
And the sediments collected around the side of hills is usually a sort of clay… they always used low quality clay ,as its reliable for making walls and caps, and so the floor would likely be clay too right ?
I am reminded that Tom Lehrer wrote the theme song for this thread!
Dump garbage into a pit, and next thing you know, there’ll be twenty seven eight-by-ten
color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.
I thought most garbage got recycled. Metals get melted down, paper and wood get reused for pulp.
I think even plastics get recycled now.
I know one guy who runs a small steel mill. Most of the stuff they get is from landfills and scrap heaps.
For a foreigner - can you please explain?
It’s a reference to the plot of Arlo Guthrie’s anti-Vietnam War song, “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.”