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i was just taking out the garbage and i was thinking, how much longer can they keep piling up all the garbage in the world.

i mean i know that most of it gets recycled but not all of it does.

i know this is probably a stupid thread but it just came to my mind so i thought why not post it.

Most of the garbage can be broken down in landfills, but things like plastic take centuries. Available space is finite, so it's a good point. We just have to come up with a solution before the problem becomes too big to manage.

I do think that's a problem, but I don't think it's one anyone wants to really deal with. Wouldn't it be ironic if all the trash became humanity's downfall? lol ^_^

unless a solution can be thought up soon it will become there downfall

i mean its like the weather, they all said that nothing wud happen with the ozone and stuff but its july and here its raining, there is thunder and lightning and all sorts, and its only going to get worse.

sorry all for going off topic i know how some of u hate that

You'll notice when they can't pile it up anymore, you'll notice it very much! ;)

Good point, wonder what happens when we run out of room?

I guess they won't realize how serious it is until the downfall time comes. =S

I think they should load all the garbage into a huge rocket and shoot it into the sun....it'll just vaporize it in a millisecond.

That's actually a really good idea. =)

Thank ya YourDarkness... I thought that up as a little child when they used to have the same discussions in Philadelphia PA (my hometown). Why couldn't it work? Just collect enough revenues from trash collection fees and shoot one rocket a month with domestic garbage...and maybe one rocket a year with military/nuclear/other bad shit garbage in it.... If the entire planet were in on it the cost to the individual would be negligible.

actually..i dont think that the quantity of trash is the biggest garbage problem we're facing...
bigger problems lie in the types. more and more we're using complex chemicals as fire retardants and such...and *those* seeping into the environment is more of an issue since they tend to be harmful and difficult to get rid of.

i think that that will kill us off before we get a chance to turn the whole planet into a landfill...i mean...while most people dont want to live next to a giant landfill...we do have space for them...and the land can be used again after the landfill is closed. not the most pleasant of thoughts...

but yeah...in environmental science circles, i've heard that the landfill crisis has been seriously exaggerated

while of course..more pressing problems are ignored.

i always wondered why they couldnt turn it into some sort of energy they recycle glass plastic paper cardboard i dont know about abroad but here in aus we have bin for cardboard paper plastic glass and one for scraps. huh scraps whats that food ive seen drunks in town eat half eaten maccas out of the bin it is or will be an issue but yeah turn it into fuel or power i reckon.if anyone fromm like nasa for example is reading these threads come on you can build bombs rockets think of something to do with waste.

not as much as you think gets recyceld we all need to try and not use as many desposabel produts not for us but for the next generation

LifeiIsKilliingMe you have a nice point about sending a rocket into the moon. I always thought that mankind would end up doing something like that.

hmmm ive wondered about that before too i dont know i guess people will find a way to do something with it...

This is one of my main issues... I am a nature freak; it is something that we should be grateful we were given, so there infact we should bve grateful to take care of it... People don't realize all the things that could be done to save nature... The problem is that the world has become to self involved to realize the real problem at hand... We have machines that do everything for us... Why?... In the old days, people did things for themselves... We are destroying our heritage, our lives, and our planet because of greed and lazyness... It discusts me... If animals, which are "so much lower then us, intelligence wise", have been takeing care of the planet for so many billions of years, why haven't we figured out how to do it yet?!?!?!... No animal takes more then it needs... No animal destroys the land it lives on... No animal does things PERPUSLY to destroy its world... The U.S. alone produces TWO TIMES the amount of food needed to feed its people PER YEAR... And what happens with at food?... Is goes to waste... We don't even give it away to starving nations because our our damn greed and pride... Okay, I think i have overdone it a bit... I'm done for now...

You could potentially consider this theory that since all matter was already on earth when we started to create products and have garbage that theres no possible way to create more matter. What I am trying to get at is that product waste "garbage" came from the earth and will be returned to the earth decomposed and can't create more space than the space it was taken from. Object taken from object and put back into object is equal.

**nods with all of u guys** i hav nothing really to say now u guys said it all.

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Recicling is the way . And bury what can't be recicled deep within the Earth ...

that's a big problem we have where I live:/

thats is a good idea shot it all in space

Eventually we are not going to have a place to put our garbage. Once that happens we have a bigger issue on our hands.

Well..I believe we must be responsible for our waste and the omissions it gives the atmosphere.

For those of you that say to shoot it all off into outer space, what sort of message does that give about mankind?

Waste management is about our responsibilities to the earth, and it also reflects on our ability to take responsibility for our own actions. There are far too many harmful omissions polluting the atmosphere already and that kills the wildlife, and sealife in the Artic ocean as the Icecaps melt.

I am all on for Kyoto and I hope America will sign up for it too!

they could send a rocket towards the sun but it would probably not get there in one persons life time. i think it would be easy that they could dump some stuff into volcanoes and burn the rest of it.......i like fire what can i say

There's a landfill a couple of miles away from my house, it's overflowing. It's about a kilometre squared, and it looms. It's so high you could take panoramic photographs of most of the island. Waste management is getting to be a serious problem, over here they've started making us pay for supermarket plastic bags, the only real step our government has taken to combat it. Greenpeace held a protest in front of a government building once against our excessive use of plastic, the only attention the press gave it was a lengthly article about how one of the protesters slightly damaged a piece of limestone coat of arms on the building's facade.