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Re: Brashears on Hanson



On 12 Dec 1996 14:54:44 GMT, cs2@newton.npl.co.uk (Clive Scoggins)
wrote:

>In article <58endv$fg3@news.inforamp.net>, dlj@inforamp.net says...
><big snip>
>
>>>I also assert that most of this destruction is unnecessary and
>>>unjustified. When we throw away as much usable materials as we do, and
>>>use as much land as we do, that our lifestyle could indeed be described
>>>as wasteful, and far, far more than needed to support even a luxurious
>>>lifestyle, let alone "the bare minimum necassary for surviaval."
>>
>>If it were true that we threw away useable material in any large
>>quantity, then it would certainly follow that were were wasteful.
>>What useable material do you see being thrown away where?
>
>Have you ever SEEN a landfill?

Yes.  When I was a kid you used to see old car bodies at the dump:
stripped of every ounce of copper and lead, the tires, the dials, and
everything of any use at all, but the rusted out bodies would still be
here and there.  Now you can't even find a $50 car body at the dump:
they go straight to the shredder.
 
The last time I walkd across a landfill was a couple of years ago: in
the Royal York Road area in western Toronto.  All the homes are in the
million dollar plus range because they back onto the sewage plant,
which means there's lots of open space and fresh air.
 
The last time I walked over an _open_ landfill, i.e. one that had not
yet been filled, was a few years before that, outside Tokyo.  I didn't
see anything that could have been sold for a yen -- though the great
separation plants to pull out the burnables for district heating had
not yet been built.
 
                                                          -dlj.
 





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