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To Burn or Not to Burn?

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When I see all those dumpsters and trash cans in front of rural and remote homesteads and farms, I think that is so stupid to be hauling and burying wrappers and papers to a landfills hundreds of miles away when most of that crap can be burned safely on site, with a trip a few times a year to the county transfer station for the cans and glass and a few miscellaneous things. But alas the activists are more interested in punishing rural folk. ♻ 

Dan Martin Explains Everything is a hilarious channel with his pet deer 🦌 and his earth 🌎 ship homestead and off grid life. Some of his stuff is kind of silly 🤪 but a lot of it is good, down to earth, very good explanations. 

South Buffalo Brownfield Remediation Sites

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TSDR Hazardous Waste Sites on National Priorities List (NPL) represents georeferenced data for 1,572 NPL Superfund sites. The purpose is to provide an easily accessible data set of polygons for hazardous waste sites in the United States which can be used to identify nearby populations and assess their potential risk. Dataset Summary The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Hazardous Waste Sites on National Priorities List (NPL) is a database providing georeferenced data for 1,572 National Priorities List (NPL) Superfund sites. Data Source: NYS Department of State. http://opdgig.dos.ny.gov/arcgis/rest/services/NYOPDIG/PhysicalData/MapServer/41

Fuck 🖕 Recycling ♻

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Fuck 🖕 Recycling ♻

That’s how I increasingly feel about having to wash out plastic bottles for the recycling trash, which is an increasingly dubious thing. It’s just so much easier to toss them in a fire and burn them, especially nowadays with recycling to be mostly a feel-good scam. Maybe it’s a good thing with the amount of waste a suburbanite household generates, but I sure much rather just burn that crap that be participating in the solid waste racket.

New York City fails zero waste pledge. Why it’s going backward. – POLITICO

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New York City fails zero waste pledge. Why it’s going backward. – POLITICO

NEW YORK — Mountains of trash are getting steeper as the country’s largest city inches away from its ambitious goal of nearly zeroing out residential waste by 2030, emblematic of the nation’s struggles with more garbage and limited recycling options.

City Hall cut street sweeping in half during the Covid-19 pandemic. Residents are recycling at their lowest level since 2015. Composting food scraps — which comprise one-third of household waste — is becoming harder as the program has been a target of budget cuts. And reforms to the private-sector industry that collects commercial waste have been delayed once again.