Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system?
Why do people throw out old motors, bicycles, anything metal into rivers and lakes instead of a junk yard or the trash system?
I have been watching magnet fishing and people love to toss stuff over bridges without a second thought on the environmental impact. Hiding evidence I can almost understand but not lawnmowers, car batteries, etc.
It seems deeper fines should be made to discourage this terrible behavior.
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For big times like furniture, engines, toilets, construction debris, etc it's to save money. You can't throw those things in a dumpster, and a trip to my local dump costs $160.
Goddamn. It costs like thirty or forty bucks to throw out one of those items here (not construction debris--that's too big/heavy).
There's so much NIMBY about landfills they're rare and very far apart, so they can get away with charging 4x what's fair.
I mean to be fair having a landfill around would be one of the only things I'd be a NIMBY about.
I'd even accept a nuclear reactor over a landfill.
Both are very safe? I don't understand
Oh dear, you've already forgotten about Fukushima, and it was only 13 years ago. It was a safe power plant, until it wasn't, and then the city was destroyed.
Oh well, nobody could have predicted it. (Except for all of those people who did predict it. But let's not worry about them. Let's just forget about the whole event.)
It got hit by a 9.0 earthquake AND a tsunami, and only ONE guy MAYBE died from radiation, FOUR YEARS later.
I remember Fukushima.
You never knew Fukushima. You only knew the bullshit shoveled into your ears.
If it's big and metal there's a scrapyard that will, at the very least, take it off your hands for free. Free metal is free metal. Getting the big metal thing to the scrapyard is another story.
It’s unfortunate that waste disposal is one of those things that gets cut back (see, it doesn’t work. Let’s save money). I was pleasantly surprised by my town having more traditional service where they’ll pick up anything. For something big, like furniture, they want you to call ahead so they can send a flatbed, but they’ll take just about anything.
Meanwhile, my ex a couple towns over, has to pay per bag and you’re on your own for anything big