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Originally Posted by LadyShea
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Originally Posted by godfry n. glad
I daresay, it's probably more than that. I'd say a lot of trash has already been dumped in Nevada. There is a huge pile of trash around the intersection of US 95 and I-515.
One person's "open, empty desert", ready for landfills, is another's "pristine wilderness" providing idyllic living circumstances for a variety of creatures.
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So, that makes it okay to pile up all the coffee grounds, old computers, used tampons and other detritus of modern humanity? Next time you're at the courthouse, just throw that half-eaten sandwich on the floor...it's not protected wilderness and it's owned by the government, so who cares?
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It's more than regulatory and logistical problems. Most major American metropolitan areas are facing the filling and closure of their landfills in the next ten years. Either they will be forced to deal with it another way (burning, say...*cough*cough*) or locate and build yet another landfill... I hear there are plenty of empty valleys in Alabama, too.
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Again, many cities have closed landfills and made them into beautiful parks, golf courses, and other recreational areas and simply opened new ones. Some states ship their trash to neighboring states with more landfill space without issue. It has been done, so it can be done. Just a matter of the agencies involved getting their shit together.
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Sorry, I guess we'll just have to disagree. It's more than agencies getting their shit together (probably to ship to some other agency for disposal), it's finding places to put growing amounts of shit. It's great that so many landfills are being used for public recreational spaces....but that is not the issue. The issue is operating landfills. Nobody seems to want to live next door...what with the odiferousness and the large volume of heavy truck traffic. NIMBY comes in in a big way when it comes to locating new landfills.
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They have? You sure coulda fooled me. Tell 'em to come pick up those stinkin' radioactive fuel rods ASAP, wouldja? We've been waiting fifteen years on the promise they'd have it all fixed up for us ten years ago.
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Yucca Mountain has been approved. We are still fighting it, especially now that they found some of the scientific documents were falsified, but the Feds seem like they ain't budging. They supposedly have all the logistics for shipping it here ready to go.
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Why are you fighting it, if it's unprotected and government land?
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I dunno... The topic came up. I did not realize that you were the arbiter of what is discussed and what is not. Excuuuuuuse me.
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I am not as upset about discussing it as I was your tone (or at least the tone I perceived). You were getting kinda rude with me and I don't understand why.
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Well, you've had problems with my "tone" before. I think I've been fairly even tempered on this, while trying to point out that you have some rather self-centered positions on this issue of where you toss your trash.
Go ahead...kill innocent Desert Tortoises...they seem to be less important than your old used tampons.