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- Hacker News
- > "In a worst case scenario, the hillside can liquefy and actually slide into the community," Assembly member Pilar Schiavo, D-Santa Clarita, said at a news conference last month.
Once again, proving that Idiocracy (2006) was prophetic, and not just satire.
by shaftway - Thank your ancestors, who were to lazy to recycle and treat the rest in a thermic process upfront. It bet those landfills could have easily been only one third the size and close to non-toxic.
When generations cheap out, it's always one of the next who suffers. Pains me.
- Recycling is mostly a lie. Plastic can’t really be usefully recycled. Glass would need to be sorted by color, which is infeasible. There is already more paper and cardboard than can be consumed. Clean aluminum and steel containers recycle well, but are not a lot of volume, and don’t burn.by lokar
- >Thank your ancestors, who were to lazy to recycle and treat the rest in a thermic process upfront. It bet those landfills could have easily been only one third the size and close to non-toxic.
My municipality is actively looking at how w're gonna get screwed over this right now as our landfill is slated to close in the mid to late 2030s.
There's plenty of idiots alive and affecting policy today who are why we can't come up with solutions. It's a giant goddamn circle of stupid.
Can't landfill it "because environment". Can't burn it "because environment". Can't have the local (because all this stuff is low margin and shipping eats margin) industry that could take a whole lot of this stuff as various feed stocks "because environment". Of course the lying assholes will be right there to tell you that they haven't literally banned X or Y, you just need to comply with requirements that they've carefully written so that there's not actually any suitable site for a new landfill or incineration/power operation in the whole state.
Clearly the only truly sustainable solution is one that doesn't involve listening to certain people.
- Somewhat moot point but official website insists it is NOT a fire
https://chiquitacanyon.com/odor-mitigation/recent-updates/
>>Any odors coming from the Chiquita Canyon Landfill are related to an abnormal biotic or abiotic process (also known as a landfill reaction) taking place deep within a lined, but older and inactive portion of the Landfill waste mass. This reaction is not a fire or subsurface oxidation event within the waste mass, and is not related to waste disposal operations at the Landfill.
by ethagknight - Time to tax the generation that filled them for the costs of their choices. Unpriced externalities is a failure mode of unregulated market choices.by maerF0x0
- Or fine the operator for violating existing lawsby lokar