05-07-2014, 03:06 PM
Those big facilities, where all trash is sorted and processed, are called material recovery facilities. MRF for short. They can produce soil, too. Someone said easy was the key.
My personal opinion is those 'dumps' are gold mines. Problem is they aren't well managed, because let's face it, people don't generally grow up wishing to be garbagemen. Not a bad job at all, I'd like to do it. Trash needs to be sorted,inspected and stockpiled. Just like ammo. Trash also needs to be planned for 'repurposement' from the get go. A well managed dump could generate quite a bit of money. The problem is really the way the economy is structured and constrained by law. The producer is only concerned with the sale. You might say, well, in a free market economy, the garbage problem leaves opportunity and that void is good because someone else has a chance to make money. But not so fast.
The wide mouth can was genius. It's functional. But does the swirly sprite bottle make the sprite taste better? No. How about that wrapper on the bottle of good old Mt. Dew? Nope. It's waste. All those proprietary trademark-able packagings do is advertise, and you're not being paid. Not to mention the waste of time it would be to sort. It should be an occupation. It should be law, that packagings should have a very clear, well defined lifecycle. It should be law, that on the packaging, the consumer can read what the packaging will be recycled, upcycled, repurposed, etc... into on its next step in its lifecycle, after the consumer discards it. However, Please don't tread on uncle coca cola's first ammendment rights... WTF!?
All kidding aside, garbage should have been high on the list on national security since ancient times. Today more than ever. Dumps are resource heaven. In an age where we are competing for resources, what better way to stockpile? Again, poorly managed and or greedily protected. Maybe a different look towards crap from china?
So mine the dumps and make sure they never become mine able again. Sort, inspect, stockpile- reuse.
Unfortunately, we need power to run facilities like an MRF, better transportation, and labor. Tesla maybe had the answer to the power problem and the public should have demanded that instead of 'free' healthcare, transportation would likely improve with Tesla's 'free' energy, and labor, well there are a lot of incentives to working at the dump.
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My personal opinion is those 'dumps' are gold mines. Problem is they aren't well managed, because let's face it, people don't generally grow up wishing to be garbagemen. Not a bad job at all, I'd like to do it. Trash needs to be sorted,inspected and stockpiled. Just like ammo. Trash also needs to be planned for 'repurposement' from the get go. A well managed dump could generate quite a bit of money. The problem is really the way the economy is structured and constrained by law. The producer is only concerned with the sale. You might say, well, in a free market economy, the garbage problem leaves opportunity and that void is good because someone else has a chance to make money. But not so fast.
The wide mouth can was genius. It's functional. But does the swirly sprite bottle make the sprite taste better? No. How about that wrapper on the bottle of good old Mt. Dew? Nope. It's waste. All those proprietary trademark-able packagings do is advertise, and you're not being paid. Not to mention the waste of time it would be to sort. It should be an occupation. It should be law, that packagings should have a very clear, well defined lifecycle. It should be law, that on the packaging, the consumer can read what the packaging will be recycled, upcycled, repurposed, etc... into on its next step in its lifecycle, after the consumer discards it. However, Please don't tread on uncle coca cola's first ammendment rights... WTF!?
All kidding aside, garbage should have been high on the list on national security since ancient times. Today more than ever. Dumps are resource heaven. In an age where we are competing for resources, what better way to stockpile? Again, poorly managed and or greedily protected. Maybe a different look towards crap from china?
So mine the dumps and make sure they never become mine able again. Sort, inspect, stockpile- reuse.
Unfortunately, we need power to run facilities like an MRF, better transportation, and labor. Tesla maybe had the answer to the power problem and the public should have demanded that instead of 'free' healthcare, transportation would likely improve with Tesla's 'free' energy, and labor, well there are a lot of incentives to working at the dump.
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