Recycling Chaos In U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
Hmm...a little bit of technology can overcome human error. That has always been the problem with recycling, in a country of people who cannot think critically, and understand the symbols, and no one making it easy to understand, then you get....garbage. So, go for the fix and find a way to separate it, unless you think you can fix people...
What's also hilarious is that the people affected are the very "greenies" who pretend that shipping their trash to someone else constitutes an environmentally-sound policy because of a "not-in-my-backyard" approach to landfills. To me, it just leaves me laughing and shaking my head at the same time.
Now if people really want to get down to real solutions for waste management, there was a technology at one point which involved putting garbage into what essentially was an oil refinery and reducing it down to trace minerals and oil. I think this would solve a lot of problems, but it's ten years old and hasn't gone anywhere... (http://discovermagazine.com/2006/apr/...)
1. labor costs are rising in China and they cant economically afford to hire even the semi-peasants to sort the trash.
2. The Statement in the article is telling...." this "foreign waste" includes too many other nonrecyclable materials that are "dirty," even "hazardous." In a filing with the World Trade Organization the country listed 24 kinds of solid wastes it would ban "to protect China's environmental interests and people's health.""
I think this is a situation where you never let a good crisis go to waste. The crisis being rising labor costs making it un-affordable to sort the trash and the advantage is that the commies can dis the USA as hazardous waste spreading scumbags while at the same time state how concerned they are about the "workers" in China. What a load!
Trees are a renewable resource and if we practiced proper land management, used all the old dead growth and replanted...maybe forest fires wouldn't be a problem.
Let's just go back to the past, real glass bottles and employ all the illegal aliens as bottle washers as punishment for slithering past our borders then send them home after a few years, just in time for the next round up.