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|  Message 516  |
|  August Abolins to Ward Dossche  |
|  LCBO to permanently ditch  |
|  13 Aug 23 00:26:00  |
 MSGID: 1:396/45.29@fidonet 0b67ee69 REPLY: 2:292/854 1a38450a PID: OpenXP/5.0.57 (Win32) CHRS: ASCII 1 TZUTC: -0400 Hello Ward! ** On Saturday 12.08.23 - 20:49, Ward Dossche wrote to Mike Powell: WD> It is amazing how, in a modern country such as Canada, WD> landfill still is a considered a viable end-solution. Canada is immense with its plentitude of land, and that is probably why landfills have been maintained as the defacto standard for disposing waste. Before plastics and electronic turned up, this was probably a perfectly fine solution. Today, a lot more planning goes into suitable landfill sites. They look for areas of least impact to watersheds/watertables. They might even excavate the soils and gravels as road building materials and dedicate the pits for garbage fill. WD> Many know I live in Belgium, there is "no" landfill WD> anymore here, there is no space for it. So there are other WD> solutions needed for the general household garbage which WD> cannot be recycled and has no other end-of-life options WD> ... incineration ... Great. Belgium, one source contributor to global warming! :D WD> As most of that garbage has a too low caloric value for WD> incineration, energy needs to be added in the form of gas WD> and ... the paper and the plastic from shopping bags. Modern day manufactured materials is a far cry from the simpler materials a couple hundred years ago. WD> Landfill is a very irresponsible way of waste management ... Building a lot of incernation plants, especially near by populated areas, would cry public opposition. -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.57 * Origin: Age Doesn't Matter Unless You're a Cheese (1:396/45.29) SEEN-BY: 15/0 105/81 106/201 124/5014 5016 129/305 130/330 153/7715 SEEN-BY: 218/700 226/30 227/114 229/110 112 113 275 307 317 426 428 SEEN-BY: 229/470 664 700 280/464 282/1038 291/111 292/854 317/3 320/219 SEEN-BY: 322/757 387/25 396/45 460/58 712/848 2320/105 5020/400 5075/35 PATH: 396/45 229/426 |
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