Just Bury Your Trash

blinded

Dropped some stuff off at a landfill a few weeks ago. Place was a mess, made me feel like a dirty human.

quantified

Do note this is a Koch Bros pro-fossil publication. It'll call out some externalities but not others.

throw567643u8

US centric viewpoints. The UK is running out of space for landfills. Burning it is best for all.

ndriscoll

> In total, Britain’s Environment Agency calculated that a conventional cotton bag needed to be reused 173 times to beat plastic So after a couple years? How is this supposed to be an argument in favor of disposable bags? My reusable ones are just fine after probably at least a decade. Likewise with the mug; ignoring for a moment that drinking out of a polystyrene cup is disgusting (especially with hot liquids like coffee that one normally uses a mug for), the argument is supposed to be that a mug (a thing that should last a lifetime) is somehow worse than disposable cups because it takes 2-3 years to be better purely on an energy basis? And the milk bottle: okay, it takes 10 trips to be better; ChatGPT says various sources say a typical bottle lasts 10-30 trips. So it's better. What even is the argument here? The first two steps are reduce and reuse, after all. Recycle is last .

molvqingtai

In fact, there is no longer enough waste in China to burn, so they have even started digging up previously buried waste to generate electricity.