[LadyShea]

Originally Posted by godfry n. glad

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?

What does a sandwhich on the floor have anything to do with burying garbage in the desert? Believe me, the desert is a reslient ecosystem and will grow back right over the top of the landfill.

What do you think they just make mountains of garbage? No, it's buried. The test site, where they detonated fucking A-bombs, has grown back. I am sure Mother Earth can handle some synthetics and plastics. In fact, the test site would make excellent landfill space.

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.

I don't want to live next to a landfill either, that's why I was saying the states should work together to ship their garbage to places with extra space outside of populated areas. I saw on an episode of Bullshit! an expert who stated that all the garbage produced in the US could easily fit in one spot in Kansas for the foreeable future.

Why are you fighting it, if it's unprotected and government land?

Yucca Mountain is not seismically stable and is less than 100 miles from Las Vegas. All of the nuclear waste would have to be trucked in on the roads of the US and be easily targeted for terrorists or even a simple accident could cause a huge problem...what with it being radioactive and all. How that is analogous to garbage in your mind I don't know.

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.

Perhaps we have a personality conflict, I just felt like you came out of the blue with this topic based on me jokingly saying that handles on bags are expensive...then you made comments like and "If handles on paper grocery sacks cuts into profit margins, why is it that the lower-margin stores are the ones that offer them?" which I saw as quite challenging and stern against a joke, and "Check again" like I was making some kind of argument....which I wasn't. Basically I was going off information I have read and seen showing that the "landfill problem" was really not a problem of having no space.

Go ahead...kill innocent Desert Tortoises...they seem to be less important than your old used tampons.

Oh Jesus H. Christ the drama! The tortoises are protected and we have the whole fucking test site to put garbage in. And where the hell did tampons come from? I thought this was a paper or plastic issue.

I don't want to talk to you anymore.