don't know where to place this

[vesta111]

This has been a question in my mind for a long time since I in the 80's traveling home saw the high piles of garbage heading in to New York.   These Hugh earthmoving equipment way up top that from the road looked like tinker toys to us in the distance.

So I became interested in just where does our garbage go.     I developed a theory in the mean time that the dinosaurs the huge ones may have wiped themselves out from the huge methane caused by their poop. Some scientists say herds of these huge beasts traveled together so one  imagine the tons of  poop they left behind.  a lightening strike could have blown them away. 

OK so now I watched a documentary about Ancient London and the problem they had back then with their garbage disposal.   

Then I went on to check out how early America and the city's dealt with the problem. Quite ghastly especially Chicago that had the waste pipes placed up river from the drinking water at one time.

Now today when the big green BFI dumpsters come to collect garbage I wonder------Where does it go ?

Then I got on a site I should never have gone to that tells that the city's that recycle their waste have all kinds of drugs and diseases in them for the tap water.

 Is it big Steve that worked for the water department,  He was doing more there to help his community then he can do running for some do nothing city council.

Just the musing of an old lady that is afraid to drink water from a lake or stream that 50 years ago would have been no problem.  Today without a filter of some kind this can cause big time problems.

[Rick]

Came across this and thought of your post. Some answers. And some nosense.

Silver bear /Digest

[obumazombie]

I used to take my kids to Mount Trashmore in Virginia Beach. They loved it, and don't seemed to have suffered any harmful effects. Me either.

[vesta111]

Came across this and thought of your post. Some answers. And some nosense.

Silver bear /Digest

Thank you Rick, I have been told via newspapers and journals that we have started looking into worm farming to solve smaller problems with trash.

Nothing new my grandfather had a big old rain barrel in the barn that he raised up some really big worms for fishing.    Once every 2 years or so he would haul out the barrel and dump it on a small plot of land mix in the worms and their egg casings and plant vegetables, beef stake tomatoes that were huge.     He also had a drain system to collect the liquid gold the urine, I believe they expel and mix it with 1 part the liquid to 3 parts water and water the wild flowers, biggest darn poppies and daisy's I have ever seen. 

That system in the article you sent in in fact in use up here in North Cow Hampshire .Very  expensive to install but one of the few private farmers left in America managed to beg borrow and steal enough money to give it a try.

Seems like a winner so far, fancy the amount of dung from a couple hundreds of cows, horses, and hogs that pile up every day that has a use for.

Sludge in another matter , the recycled human waste that is transformed into a fertiliser for the fields of food crops.  I have heard both the pro and con of using Sludge, most anti Sludge as one has to remember that all the drugs that people take go into this toxic brew.   

We have another problem that is really scary, how to dispose of our Nuclear Waste.  We Americans haven't figured out how to this safely And I wonder what and how other country's dispose of their own------
 Then wonder why our Oceans are dieing.