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By: Trollheim1

Trollheim1 — Thu, 12 May 2011 08:31:00 +0000

I agree, I also live in Germany and everything is recycled . I think , being an american . That they are not trained to do this and it must be done . The cities and states need to take steps to ensure this happens as for how long will you be able to put everything into landfills . nEverything can be recycled . Metals , Plastics , Cloth , Wood . Most food scapes should go to compost . How about neighborhood compost bins ? After you put in so many lbs of compostable mats , you can retrieve so many poundsof compost out for your plants – nThe problem with america is everything is revenue . Then what happens to that land after it is filled with crap ? Can it be used ? Is it sold to big Corps for factories ? Cheap houses built on it ? What ?

By: Kaye

Kaye — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 04:35:00 +0000

All landfills leak according to the EPA, even those with liners and leachate collection systems. The leachate (garbage juice) is very toxic and many garbage dumps are on the Superfund priority sites to be cleaned up. Unfortunately, cleanup is a joke. It simply goes to another community to be landfilled or worse, incinerated. Incineration is a landfill in the sky and pollutes the air. The only solution to trash is recycle, reuse, reduce and stop throwing good resourses in the trash.

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Slowly but surly | Environmental Science Service Learning Project — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:20:56 +0000

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By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:28:37 +0000

By the way, we have made trash-related mistakes as well, and this is what you get from mistakes likes these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schacht_Asse_II

Just a few days ago, it was decided to clear out the Asse II radioactive trash, which will be a first in human history, take ten years at least and cost billions. But it is still massively better than to have radioactive groundwater.

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:23:30 +0000

Hello everyone,

I live in Germany, and it hurts to see what you’re doing to your beautiful country. Over here, and we’re 82 million people, and we produce a lot of trash as well.

But we don’t thow it on the landfill for it to rot and contaminate the environment. Instead, we make electricity from it. It’s called incineration:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration

And the process is very technologically advanced, so there is not really much (if any) environmental damage. The trash is burned at very high temperatures, so that wet refuse is combustible as well.

This plant here powers much of Munich (including the Oktoberfest), and we actually imported trash from Italy (Naples) to help them get rid of their trash problem.

http://tinyurl.com/ydf8gk5
http://www.nowpublic.com/garbage_problems_trash_naples

Also, only the leftovers are burnt, the rest is recycled – nationwide:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dot_%28symbol%29

Mostly only inert leftovers that are not dangerous and can’t be burned go to landfills. There are also some special landfills for dangerous materials, but the “Deponie”, as we call it, is a sophisticated system designed for minimum environmental impact, for example, with huge concrete foundations to keep the ground and water okay. They are not compareable to a landfill at all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_Directive

On your landfills, you’re sitting on huge amounts of raw materials and energy. Make something of it and reduce the environmental damages. Like, now!

By: Life As Mommy

Life As Mommy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:27:13 +0000

Wow.. amazing pictures.. lovely.. i could not resist me but to have perpetual look on all these images. Thanks!

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Fri, 08 Jan 2010 15:51:19 +0000

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By: merle

merle — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:53:21 +0000

very good story– my whole idea for my bags came from keeping items out of our landfills– I wanted to show my kids how we could help–

merle