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Waste is one of the main problems in developed countries.
Germany for example has already no space to build new landfills, inceneration must take place.
Disposing waste is getting everytime more expensive and recicling is increasing. Anyway reduction of waste productio might be the optimal answer.
I just pointed some possibilities.
It's now up to you to contribute with new ideas.
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I agree, we all have to start thinking of what we are doing with our trash, and what we are turning our planet into: a dump?
For me the answer is simple, buy less packaged goods, through out less garbage, and therefore, less trash and pollution!
waste not, want not! Buy only what you need, not what you want, its a simle saccrafice,,,,,,,,, save the planet and save a daller at the same time!
peace yall
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there are many solutions to this problem
i don't know space sounds good... but then there are many problems that would surface from that... i don't know we're basically going to die because we killed the planet
look a bear!
Landfills are the most economical (and easiest) solution to this issue.
Recently over 200 international scientists conducted the most comprehensive global survey and found that 44% of the Globe's land masses are unihabited wilderness ares.
This 44% contains only 3% of the Globe's polulation.
It is safe to say that considering this information, the real issue is not where to put our trash, it's really about why we are not using the resources we already have.
"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it." - Albert Einstein
I believe the problem lies with our throw-away society. We've grown so accustomed to using products only once and then throwing them away that it has placed a burden on this planet.
better systems for recycling more biodegradable produce,
It would be a good idea to depend less and less on petro-chemical products and find more natural alternatives. Plastic used to be made to be biodegradable for example. Plus, we need to make products last much longer. In a capitalist society, when something is invented, it is designed so that it can last up to a certain point before the consumer is forced to buy another product to replace that broken-down item in order for the producer to make a profit.
I believe Edison's light bulb is an example (I know he didn't invent it, only patented it, but bear with me here). I once saw a documentary that either took place at his house or laboratory where there was this light bulb that had been burning for ninety years, while regular light-bulbs that one buys at the store have to be replaced after a certain period of time. If we made our products of much better quality and that could be used over and over again, we would not produce so much garbage.
Recycling is also an excellent idea, as we keep the resources we already have and re-use it over and over without taking away from the environment.
I voted for products that last longer. This is well within our technological grasp.
The light bulb is not a good example though; if you turn a light on and just leave it burning, the bulb will last far longer than "normal" -- it's the repeated heating and cooling of the lighting element that causes it to ultimately break after a relatively short period of time.
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A site about communist ideas
Stone age, yes yesshh.. We deserve it. <_<
Arrgh, I knew that would be a bad example.<_<
send it to space, lets turn the moon into a giant landfill, what else are we using it for?
That's a short term solution. We really need to find a way to reduce the amount of waste we produce and recycle what we already have. Sending it to space or the moon is too big a loss of resources that could be used for better purposes like bettering society.
we need more recycling.
less pakaging.... why wrap fruit in non biodegrabable plastic? ... so much shit that doesnt need pakaging has it.. plastic plastic plastic for the streets.. forests and landfills.
in south america there are dump cities... ppl that live among the dumps.. they survive by scavenging.. it is no way to live.
less trash.. less toxic chemicals.... less polution... cars need to run on sumthing other than petrol.. and untill then we need less cars... what is wrong with bikes, walking and public transport?
there are so many problems and so many solutions. society needs to re-organize the way it lives. not consumer - disbosable (instant food - then rubbish bin).
pass pakaging, chemical additives, and high sugar food ruin our enviroment, and our bodies. i support GE free food.
I think we also need suistainable housing. Many people are able to do this.. we need to look into it more and change building practises.
of course many ppl throw stuff away cause they dont know what to do with it, by habit or because they are too poor to offord a better solution.
wipe third world dedt.. let ppl grow their own food naturely, study the enviroment,
stop monsanto and the likes fucking with our eco system and hording food in massive silos .. that rot while ppl starve
PEOPLE AND PLANET not profits and power.
millions of sollutions for problems that arise out of capitalist practise, and lack of effort to change.
'I'm not proposing we should all get naked and be neandertals,
But we can live a simpler life - one that might take us away from the materialism that destroys our air, our water, and each other." - Possuelo
'man is born free and everywhere he is in chains' - Rousseau
property is theft
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I posted in a topic similar to this, but i'll say it again only because it's so fucking unbelievable. There are numerous school districts around my area that claim to have a recycling program implemented for the school. However, when the trash goes out, the recycling containers are ALWAYS tossed in the same large receptacle along with the non-recyclable garbage. This was a big issue, we've done a bit of investigating and we (other suspecting friends) saw with our own eyes our disastrous "recycling" program. Just thinking of all the wasted paper, paper that could be re-used...thus saving many trees, enfuriates me. What would it cost to keep papers, bottles, and plastics seperate from consumer waste? I'm sure it would take more effort to send such waste products to a recycling plant, but surely it just has to be these school districts are full of anti-green party members. :angry:
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
- Victor Hugo -
It takes courage to stand up for what you know is right, but it takes more courage to be the only one standing.
First off all Landifills might be cheap in Africa or Asia, but it certainly not the case in Europe where space it is a problem, and don't forget that Landfills are a potential contaminant for groundwater as also soils. Also it's uncontrollable technology, once it's closed, if there are leaks or someother malfunction you cannot just open it and repair. Once it's done there is no more come back.
And keep in mind that Romans were the first to use landfills, until today those landfills produce leachates and are a source of pollution.
The point is not how much space it's available but how can we protect our planet, just putting waste more far from our homes it will not solve the problem but it will just delay it.
I can already imagine in a couple of hundred years Archeologs will denominate us the Waste Civilization.
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another servery would show that 25% of the worl;d is uninhibitable by westerners due to rising amounts of hatred toward the west.
bbut seriously if you turn that 44% into waste land then the inhibited lands would have no where to spread to and the term "nature" would become extinct in certain contexts
Make things last longer. You can do this by simply making products more durable, by making them more future proof, and by combining rarely-used technologies. (IE you could have a combined Liquidiser/foodchopper/mincer)
And only use as much packaging as necessary.
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Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains - Karl Marx
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value - R. Buckminster Fuller
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Firstly you kill off all the people who don't belive that environmetal problems exist and use them as fertiliser. Then you kill all the people who do believe but don't do anything and use them. Then you
Reduce, Reuse, Recyle.
Reduce the crap you use, that companies use etc.
Reuse the crap you do use or buy (water bottle anyone?)
Then when it finally falls apart you recyle the bits.
And you apply this to everything and everybody (including corperations).
well I can't vote.
I say all the options apart from technological regression as I'm not THAT much of a hard liner that I'd support a pratt like Pol-Pot(SP?)
Adiel: How can you defend a country where 5 percent of the people control 95 percent of the wealth?
Lisa: I'm defending a country where people can think and act and worship any way they want!
Adiel: Cannot!
Lisa: Can to!
Adiel: Cannot!
Lisa: Can to!
Homer: Please, please, kids; stop fighting. Maybe Lisa is right about America being the land of opportunity, maybe Adiel has a point about the machinery of capitalism being oiled with the blood of the workers.
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Must say that the idea of eliminating those walking bugs from planet earth it's quite interesting.
So I guess we should start with Mr. Adolf Georg W. Bush Hitler Jr.
After refusing signing the Quito protocol, being the nation that more energy needs, that more waste produces, etc..
I'm not even talking about Environmental law that in US that it's not even 1/3 so demanding as E.U standards.
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