Current Events > Ummm, so China is no longer the dumping ground for the entire world's garbage ..

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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 1:49:23 AM
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/china-recycling-waste-ban_us_5a684285e4b0dc592a0dd7b9

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On Jan. 1, China made good on its promise to close its borders to several types of imported waste. By the next day, panic had already taken hold in countries across Europe and North America as trash began piling up by the ton, with no one having a clue where to now dispose of it all.

For more than 20 years, China has been the worlds recycling bin, accepting an enormous quantity of recyclable waste from nations worldwide. In 2016, China processed at least half of the worlds exports of waste plastic, paper and metals. The U.S. exported 16 million tons of waste to China that year, worth about $5.2 billion. Britain sent China enough garbage to fill up 10,000 Olympic-size swimming pools.

It has long been a mutually beneficial arrangement for China and the exporting countries eager to get rid of their mounting waste. But last year, China told the World Trade Organization that it was no longer interested in playing the role of global wastebasket. Beijing said that, beginning in 2018, it would be banning the imports of 24 categories of solid waste, including waste plastics, unsorted scrap paper and waste textiles. It was the most severe step China had taken since it began building its metaphorical green fence earlier this decade, which involved measures aimed at reducing the amount of yang laji, or foreign trash, that could arrive on its shores.

The ramifications of Chinas recent ban has been described with language suggestive of a natural disaster. It has sent shockwaves worldwide, said Greenpeace East Asia plastics campaigner Liu Hua. Arnaud Brunet, head of the Bureau of International Recycling, compared the ban to an earthquake.

Mere weeks after the ban took effect, waste management facilities in several countries, including the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Germany, are groaning under the weight of trash that no one seems to know what to do with. Theres a mad scramble for alternative destinations or solutions for all the waste thats piling up, said Von Hernandez, global coordinator for the nonprofit Break Free From Plastic, speaking to HuffPost from the Philippines on Wednesday.

Gee, I wonder which countries will be able to adjust to these new realities, and which ones won't ...
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Sneezy
01/25/18 1:52:13 AM
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shoot it off into space. whatever
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 1:53:22 AM
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Sneezy posted...
shoot it off into space. whatever

Quite expensive to use all of that steel and aluminum, rocket fuel, and precious metals, for a one-time use garbage can.
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Sneezy
01/25/18 1:53:49 AM
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okok ive got it
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Schwarber
01/25/18 1:54:09 AM
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Just chuck it in the ocean and let the fish deal with it
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Sneezy
01/25/18 1:54:28 AM
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space chute for trash
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Sneezy
01/25/18 1:54:50 AM
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Schwarber posted...
Just chuck it in the ocean and let the fish deal with it

way easier option
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 1:55:33 AM
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Schwarber posted...
Just chuck it in the ocean and let the fish deal with it

Whose ocean? Garbage usually just winds up washed up on our shores
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VaultDwelIer
01/25/18 1:55:44 AM
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use nukes to make craters and fill it with trash
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iClockwork
01/25/18 1:55:51 AM
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Schwarber posted...
Just chuck it in the ocean and let the fish deal with it

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legendarylemur
01/25/18 1:56:37 AM
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Just shoot a big kamehameha at the trash
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Sneezy
01/25/18 1:56:39 AM
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okokokok i've got a better idea now
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008Zulu
01/25/18 1:57:28 AM
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The Grand Canyon could stand to be filled in a little.
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Sneezy
01/25/18 1:57:50 AM
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trash chute down to the middle of the earth's core. just melt it all

whatever future ramifications there could be, not our generation's problemo
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TheMarthKoopa
01/25/18 1:58:48 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
Whose ocean? Garbage usually just winds up washed up on our shores

Make it too heavy to float and dump it into the deepest parts
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CarlGrimes
01/25/18 1:59:43 AM
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Sneezy posted...
shoot it off into space. whatever

And have it come back in 1000 years? No way.
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glitteringfairy
01/25/18 2:00:02 AM
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Amazon warehouse sized incinerators
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 2:00:35 AM
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TheMarthKoopa posted...
Make it too heavy to float and dump it into the deepest parts

Garbage is usually light. Making it 'heavy' means that we're wasting steel, iron, and other precious metals to try to weigh it down. Once again, using precious materials to build a one-time trash can.
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Vicious_Dios
01/25/18 2:02:17 AM
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Just sweep it under the rug.
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glitteringfairy
01/25/18 2:03:24 AM
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Vicious_Dios posted...
Just sweep it under the rug.

An Amazon warehouse sized rug
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iClockwork
01/25/18 2:05:08 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
Whose ocean? Garbage usually just winds up washed up on our shores

No it doesn't. You can easily drop it at specific places and the currents will take it iuntil it is trapped in a gyre. Problem solved

nfOUr73
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TheMarthKoopa
01/25/18 2:06:19 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
Garbage is usually light. Making it 'heavy' means that we're wasting steel, iron, and other precious metals to try to weigh it down.

Just use more garbage to weigh it down more
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 2:06:55 AM
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iClockwork posted...
No it doesn't. You can easily drop it at specific places and the currents will take it iuntil it is trapped in a gyre. Problem solved

So instead, we'll have a giant floating continent that will continue to grow until it literally reaches our shores.
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 2:07:43 AM
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TheMarthKoopa posted...
Just use more garbage to weigh it down more

That's not how density works, dude.
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TheMarthKoopa
01/25/18 2:09:06 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
TheMarthKoopa posted...
Just use more garbage to weigh it down more

That's not how density works, dude.

Increase the density then
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 2:09:55 AM
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TheMarthKoopa posted...
Increase the density then

Yeah, things that are more dense are typically more expensive shit like iron, steel, etc.
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iClockwork
01/25/18 2:10:38 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
So instead, we'll have a giant floating continent that will continue to grow until it literally reaches our shores.

Nope zooplankton are already quickly evolving to consume plastics and other garbage.
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cerealbox760
01/25/18 2:11:55 AM
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what if we burn it? or what if we use our thought and prayers and wish it away?
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 2:12:44 AM
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iClockwork posted...
Nope zooplankton are already quickly evolving to consume plastics and other garbage.

So why is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch still growing?
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TheMarthKoopa
01/25/18 2:13:48 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
Yeah, things that are more dense are typically more expensive shit like iron, steel, etc.

Just smoosh it down harder
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thronedfire2
01/25/18 2:14:13 AM
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China should just build its new islands out of trash
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iClockwork
01/25/18 2:14:33 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
So why is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch still growing?

Because only certain planktons are eating as of now. In the near future more species will adapt and thrive off their new food source. The numbers of species will grow until an equilibrium between food and adminal is reached.

These are elementary level concepts.
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glitteringfairy
01/25/18 2:14:53 AM
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TheMarthKoopa posted...
Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
Yeah, things that are more dense are typically more expensive shit like iron, steel, etc.

Just smoosh it down harder

Martha stop trolling the poor guy already
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 2:15:50 AM
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iClockwork posted...
Because only certain planktons are eating as of now. In the near future more species will adapt and thrive off their new food source. The numbers of species will grow until an equilibrium between food and adminal is reached.

Or they won't, and shit will continue to grow like it currently is already. History has already shown that equilibriums often fail, and species either become extinct, or they overpopulate.
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NOM
01/25/18 2:16:59 AM
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Like, what realistically could we do? Waste is only going to continue to grow...
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iClockwork
01/25/18 2:17:27 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
History has already shown that equilibriums often fail, and species either become extinct, or they overpopulate.

Nope wrong. Tagged as Young Earth Creationist.
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SpiralDrift
01/25/18 2:18:05 AM
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This is what we get for not using our own bags at the grocery store.
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SGT_Conti
01/25/18 2:18:19 AM
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TheMarthKoopa posted...
Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
Yeah, things that are more dense are typically more expensive shit like iron, steel, etc.

Just smoosh it down harder

We should stomp it down the drain.
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Schwarber
01/25/18 2:18:47 AM
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Mush it into a paste and put it in our livestocks food
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KainWind
01/25/18 2:25:04 AM
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How long ago did China announce this? Did the rest of the world not bother preparing or did China just drop this all of a sudden?
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Barenziah Boy Toy
01/25/18 2:27:51 AM
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KainWind posted...
How long ago did China announce this?

They made announcements in March, July of 2017, and were already transitioning policies up to 5 years ago.
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Shotgunnova
01/25/18 3:42:13 AM
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Barenziah Boy Toy posted...
Sneezy posted...
shoot it off into space. whatever

Quite expensive to use all of that steel and aluminum, rocket fuel, and precious metals, for a one-time use garbage can.
Solution: build an orbital elevator.
Nobel Peace Prize plz
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