Trashing The Planet (or at least one little corner of it)

[Industrial Toys]

Wait a little while and everything you have ever seen, along with the rest of the Earth is supposed to be burned to a crisp anyway.

 

[SirMaxwell]

Yeah, we live a little ways (30 seconds?) away from a convenience store.
"Only a loser would throw their spent scratch-off ticket out the window." - Literally! They're Losers!

$20 bucks out the window! - Literally! (well, sort of, it WAS worth $20)

I just can't imagine how they justify that 30 seconds of "Oh boy, this is fun, this could be it! Finally, I'm going to be ...ahh ******!" Toss out window.
$20 bucks for 30 seconds of entertainment! That's $2400 an hour. I can't think of anything that I, and know nobody who would, spend $2400/hr for entertainment.

Thank the government for learning the easiest way to take the last few shekels from the poor.

 

[SirMaxwell]

All that trash has to go somewhere. Does anyone else see the upcoming crisis as landfills fill up, and it gets harder and harder to site new ones? Third world countries don't want our trash either.

Yeah, as others noted, that's just the way it was in the country, even thru the mid-20th century.



Of course, that is another problem all in itself. There's so much stuff you have to pay extra to get rid of...flourescent tubes, old electronics, etc. Again, fewer and fewer third world countries will take this anymore.

I don't know what the solution is, other than to create less garbage and recycle more, but there doesn't seem to be much market for recyclables these days either...even the old standby aluminum cans' demand has dropped.

One reasonable solution, for some of it. It we are not allowed to throw it away, and there is no place to properly dispose of "it". Please stop allowing it to be manufactured and sold.

 

[Jstpssng]

One reasonable solution, for some of it. It we are not allowed to throw it away, and there is no place to properly dispose of "it". Please stop allowing it to be manufactured and sold.

And you can include all of the poorly made non repairable throw away junk sold at WalMart, the various Dollar Stores, et.al.

 

[Industrial Toys]

What can you even start to say about the whole CASINO industry?

 

[Fuddy1952]

Packaging is crazy. Something like an ink pen wrapped, cardboard backing, then blister packed, at checkout put in a bag with a foot long receipt. The throw away junk bigger than item!

 

[Industrial Toys]

Nothing is worse than FAST FOOD! At Mac Dees, I request no plastic bubble on my big Breakfast as I will be eating it 30 seconds from when I get it. Shorts out the whole friggin sysem! And the people, too dumbed down and running on AUTO, to realize what's really going on.

 

[quicksandfarmer]

One reasonable solution, for some of it. It we are not allowed to throw it away, and there is no place to properly dispose of "it". Please stop allowing it to be manufactured and sold.

A reasonable solution would be to make whoever sells something have to at least consider how to dispose of it when its usefulness is done. Right now that cost is often pushed onto the rest of society, as this thread illustrates.

Maybe I'm strange, but when I buy something I think about how I'm eventually going to get rid of it. Sometimes it keeps me from buying things, which can drive Mrs. Quicksand crazy. No, I don't want a ping-pong table. No, I don't want a doghouse for the dogs. No, I don't want a hammock with stand. I really don't want anything that I can't burn, bury, put in the back of the car and take to the dump, or haul to the scrapyard.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I think they should charge a dollar for every Tim Hortons Coffee Cup and another Five Dollar TAX if you go through the drive through. But, I have no doubt, that those revenues would not help the environment. Besides, then it would also just disadvantage the poorer folk.

 

[95XL883]

I was on my ground today. Picked up a crush beer can in the far corner. (How did that get there? It wasn't there last week.) By my shipping container I noticed the end of a metal cable sticking out of the ground. Tried to dig it out. It went down about 6 inches and then lateral about another six before it went down again. The ground there is a lot of sand and rock, very hard to dig in. So, next week end I'll bring the generator and dremel and cut it off where it goes down a second time. Found another one about 15' away; same story. While doing the first digging I found a cotton fabric about the size of a thick dog lead. Pulled and dug about 5' out of the ground before I finally cut it off. That has been in the ground, just 6 inches from the surface for years and it wasn't rotted. Then I noticed a broken piece of glass. Picked that up. Then just a little bit of black something showing at the surface. Thirty minutes of digging later, I had a "spare" tire in the back of the truck. Hope I can pay the local Cosco the $2.50 tire disposal fee to get rid of it. I'll keep picking up the crap as I find it.