And to consider we are currently 20% into the 21st century and still faced with these challenges. Also consider Lady Bird Johnson championed a new cause to beautify America which led to stop littering campaigns, stopping waste disposal which was common along highways. It caused problems for many auto junkyards, America still needed places to put cars no longer drivable.
@jason9022 Many junkyards were forced to move or shutdown. Obviously there were some that operated like open pits but it was a huge industry with a "lot of customers" as many cars didn't last as long as they do now, in just 10 years many cars became junkers (most did not last 100K miles).
Now I'm many talking from my memories and from material I read years ago, I am old enough to remember those days with TV commercials of anti-littering ads in the days when TV also had cigarette commercials ("Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" also Doral "taste me, taste me..."). My comments are most likely very strange for those younger but that what the world was like back then. PF posts these videos that give us insights of what viewpoints and perceptions were like.
Mostly paper and cans back then. Plastics are the major issue now, the only viable solution is to recover the energy by burning it. A great snippet of time.
In my opinion, sanitary landfills should be banned. All waste should be sorted for recyclables, then either burned to produce electricity, or burned and run through the Fischer-Tropsch process to turn garbage to gasoline. Only the incinerator bottom ash should be landfilled. The ash is sterile and won't change its volume because it won't rot. Sanitary landfills STINK to high heavens for miles around, and the ground subsidence from decomposition means that the area is mostly unusable.
China was the buyer of recyclables. Now nobody buys them and you cant get rid of them. Recycling is dead. As of now its stockpiled but eventually goes back to the landfills.
Problem is nobody wants to pay to do recycling. It seems we established a process of different bins but we now realize it was a trash sorting process. Looking closely many times it all goes to the landfill. This compounded by we generate a lot more trash i.e. cheap clothes, cheap electronic gadgets, wrappings from online orders, etc. "ground subsidence from decomposition" ugh, this is also a problem many don't want to think about.
Recycled aluminum costs 2-4% what manufacturing new aluminum costs. Plastic is the issue. It doesn't decompose in a timely manner, It gets everywhere, any there's no viable way to get it out once it breaks into minuscule particles. Plastic is what's f*cking us long term. In the meantime burying solid waste is the obvious solution. Buried trash isn't perfect, but there's no vermin or burning issues. Ground water not so much.
At 7:30 the Metropolitan Waste Conversion of Houston, Texas segment shows the largest stumbling block to all recycling processes: Separation. Separation is labor intensive and requires segregated collection and storage equipment. IMO people will never separate effectively as it requires too many separate bins taking up too much space. The separation must be maintained during collection and collection costs increase as the amount collected during a given stop decrease. Daily recyclables pickup would be necessary with a different recyclable on each day running through a week or greater cycle. Ugh! People just aren't going to undertake the effort necessary to reduce recycling costs. Recycling will always be too labor intensive to be cost-effective.
Funny when I moved to the country my wast production went down to almost nothing. Fix instead of buy new, burn some waste in the gassifier and scrap metals that are no longer functional.
I recently got promoted from Captain Obvious to Major Obvious. With a higher paygrade, of course. One day, i hope to achieve the rank of 17-star General Obvious. Only time will tell the tale to be told.
Thanks, Periscope! Good to see the old D-8's rumbling around. Thanks again!
The start of this is so comedically heavy-handed 🤣
And to consider we are currently 20% into the 21st century and still faced with these challenges. Also consider Lady Bird Johnson championed a new cause to beautify America which led to stop littering campaigns, stopping waste disposal which was common along highways. It caused problems for many auto junkyards, America still needed places to put cars no longer drivable.
Johnson caused Vietnam war..but picked up soda cans..
@jason9022 Many junkyards were forced to move or shutdown. Obviously there were some that operated like open pits but it was a huge industry with a "lot of customers" as many cars didn't last as long as they do now, in just 10 years many cars became junkers (most did not last 100K miles).
Now I'm many talking from my memories and from material I read years ago, I am old enough to remember those days with TV commercials of anti-littering ads in the days when TV also had cigarette commercials ("Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" also Doral "taste me, taste me..."). My comments are most likely very strange for those younger but that what the world was like back then. PF posts these videos that give us insights of what viewpoints and perceptions were like.
Mostly paper and cans back then. Plastics are the major issue now, the only viable solution is to recover the energy by burning it.
A great snippet of time.
First we got rid of the rodents, next we had a cigarette.
Every morning angry wives could tell where their husbands had been all night by the fly ash on the car.
In my opinion, sanitary landfills should be banned. All waste should be sorted for recyclables, then either burned to produce electricity, or burned and run through the Fischer-Tropsch process to turn garbage to gasoline. Only the incinerator bottom ash should be landfilled. The ash is sterile and won't change its volume because it won't rot. Sanitary landfills STINK to high heavens for miles around, and the ground subsidence from decomposition means that the area is mostly unusable.
China was the buyer of recyclables. Now nobody buys them and you cant get rid of them. Recycling is dead. As of now its stockpiled but eventually goes back to the landfills.
Problem is nobody wants to pay to do recycling. It seems we established a process of different bins but we now realize it was a trash sorting process. Looking closely many times it all goes to the landfill. This compounded by we generate a lot more trash i.e. cheap clothes, cheap electronic gadgets, wrappings from online orders, etc. "ground subsidence from decomposition" ugh, this is also a problem many don't want to think about.
Recycled aluminum costs 2-4% what manufacturing new aluminum costs. Plastic is the issue. It doesn't decompose in a timely manner, It gets everywhere, any there's no viable way to get it out once it breaks into minuscule particles. Plastic is what's f*cking us long term. In the meantime burying solid waste is the obvious solution. Buried trash isn't perfect, but there's no vermin or burning issues. Ground water not so much.
At 7:30 the Metropolitan Waste Conversion of Houston, Texas segment shows the largest stumbling block to all recycling processes: Separation. Separation is labor intensive and requires segregated collection and storage equipment. IMO people will never separate effectively as it requires too many separate bins taking up too much space. The separation must be maintained during collection and collection costs increase as the amount collected during a given stop decrease. Daily recyclables pickup would be necessary with a different recyclable on each day running through a week or greater cycle. Ugh! People just aren't going to undertake the effort necessary to reduce recycling costs. Recycling will always be too labor intensive to be cost-effective.
Make America bigger by adding it to the coast line.
Funny when I moved to the country my wast production went down to almost nothing. Fix instead of buy new, burn some waste in the gassifier and scrap metals that are no longer functional.
1970.
Trashy is trashy and waste is wasteful.
And... the sun is sunny.
I recently got promoted from Captain Obvious to Major Obvious.
With a higher paygrade, of course. One day, i hope to achieve the rank of 17-star General Obvious. Only time will tell the tale to be told.
Third World blues! Need a National directive that Sanitation be considered as per this video.
ship it to another country
land fill huh?
It's about plastic in ocean and green house gas from carbon fuels...
Well that was a trashy film!!!! ;-)
Curlers in your hair ? Shame on you !
old guy here, I remember those commercials! and one with a woman behind steering wheel and she pulls down the visor to hide her hair from the camera.