It doesn’t roll off the tongue like “New Joisey”.
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If you mean drop it directly into magma, do you have any idea how hot that is? Your “container” would melt instantly.
And just one split second before that, all the trash inside would be burnt to a crisp, with the steel melting over it making it so I won’t float into the sky.
Technically, you can burn it locally and MAKE money by using it to make electricity. There are 100 such plants in the United States and 400 of them in Europe.
I’m picturing a reality show with an Amish dude holding up his button-less shirt to reveal rock-hard abs.
Aren’t there power plants being developed or already in existence that basically vaporize garbage with a plasma arc down to its constituent atoms while generating enough excess electricity to perpetuate the power plant? If so, isn’t that the answer?
Like a really big Mr. Fusion?
I could have sworn I read an article online last year that said the City of Ottawa was working on building something like this.
It would have been a good idea until those hippie do-gooders got their way in the 80s and 90s. Now that there is so much recycling going on, it’s impossible to tell what part of the garbage stream contains recycled materials and what part of it is virgin materials. Everyone knows the latter is the only acceptable volcano fodder.
Hobbits.
One word: Etna.
Not recycling and getting rid of the stuff as fuel might help the economy: we’d have to make all new stuff instead, and we’d have to get that new stuff from somewhere…
Actually, this is the plan in Naples, Italy. Stockpile in the streets* and wait for Mt. Vesuvius to do it’s thing.
*Naples is “known” for frequent public service strikes; sometimes the Army is called out to clear the streets.
I don’t know – it might take more time to transmit the heat evenly through the entire container than it would take for the steel to melt.
And even assuming it didn’t, I don’t understand what you’re saying – the gas produced by the burning trash (making the further assumption that all the trash was completely burnable) would just bubble up out into the sky as soon as the steel container melted, wouldn’t it?
Band name! 
Or a really weird love song!:eek:
Yeah, I was being facetious in that last post.
Interesting, said the City Council candidate. What sort of megawattage are we looking at from these?
Why are you people still calling it trash? Over here, it’s become Ressources. Besides recycling as much as possible of the current stuff (which is much more than 30 years back, because of new technology) and burning the rest for heat/power, there’s also “urban mining” - using the rubble of demolished buildings (sorted at the site itself) to build new houses, and also opening old landfills to re-sort valuable recycable material that was just dumped in the 50s and 60s (this is different from re-opening landfills in the 70s and 80s that had been badly constructed and were leaking contaminants into the groundwater).