Repeating The Bleedin Obvious Again Innit:

Why aren't they being incinerated in the local district heating station? No, not the kids! The pampers!

Nime

Soaking fabric nappies and washing them, and then pouring the water into drainage systems has an impact on the environment too.

Nime,

Just burning them el cheapo would probably give off all kinds of foul shit into the atmosphere.

Incinerating them in a proper fashion would cost too much. So they're buried.

I'm getting ready to start an environmental job that effectively destroys an old Uranium enrichment plant. What they do with the decommisioned materials? Bury 'em in Nevada, Utah, or South Carolina.

Everyone hopes to leave a mark in their career, and I'm no different. My hope is to engineer a way so that trash be gotten rid of no harm, no foul, and CHEAPLY!

Fritz Von ain't bloody likely to happen

The brill music i gort tonogh5t was well gooodinnizt

Following along this general theme:

Can anyone tell me which creature, as a group, more closely resembles the behaviour of the human race than the locust?

Steve

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Originally posted by Stevea:
Following along this general theme:

Can anyone tell me which creature, as a group, more closely resembles the behaviour of the human race than the locust?

Steve

The human race more resembles a virus slowly killing its host. With no chance of finding another body to infect in time to ensure its own survival.

At least I hope not.

I blame the apes!

Nime

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I blame the apes!

I blame god.

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Originally posted by Aric:
Everyone hopes to leave a mark in their career, and I'm no different. My hope is to engineer a way so that trash be gotten rid of no harm, no foul, and CHEAPLY!

Fritz Von ain't bloody likely to happen

Well why not?

What we need is a method of turning used nappies into clean electricity and where the waste products can be used for building houses, hi-fi or whatever.

Perhaps that's a little far fetched but still...
technology has got us into this mess - technology will have to get us out.

Regards
Steve M

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Originally posted by Berlin Fritz:
This only applies to parents of young children: As 95% of the World's babys have never worn a nappy, those lucky parents who wish to fill our landfills continuously with mega-monster lazy 'Fuck the rest' pampers (more appropiate for the folks I tally & hardly a new subject either, especially here) that have a half life akin to that of the old 238, should possibly consider using newly developed (fast bio-degradable ones) after all the buggers only have them taped to their bums for a few hours at most anyway, innit.

Fritz Von Now there's food for thought : Talking Shit as per usual

Is it just co-incidence that this thread was started on the day a report came out showing that old fashioned ‘terry towelling’ nappies are no more environmentally friendly than disposables?

The report also noted that disposable nappies make up 0.1% of landfill sites – perhaps it would be wiser to concentrate on the other 99.9% - no doubt made up in large of plastic packaging from the millions of ready meals consumed by those to whose cooking skills extend no further than heating things up.

We use disposables but we also recycle pretty much everything we can – glass, paper, cardboard etc. We also buy very little pre-packaged food, have organic fruit and veg delivered instead and get meat from the butchers (and milk from the milkman – so no cartons to be buried). I therefore feel committing a few pampers or huggies to the ground each week to not be a major sin.

Happy to investigate more environmentally friendly disposables mind. As for the re-usable towelling nappies though – forget it – it’s a bit like replacing your car with a horse – yes the nag would be more eco friendly but, like towelling nappies, it would be a lot more hassle, be unpleasant to clean and could easily leave one with a sore behind.

Matt.

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Originally posted by Matt F:
perhaps it would be wiser to concentrate on the other 99.9% - no doubt made up in large of plastic packaging from the millions of ready meals consumed by those to whose cooking skills extend no further than heating things up.

Not all of us have time to cook - even if we enjoyed it (I *do* cook stuff other than ready meals btw).

It never ceases to amaze me how much WASTED packaging there is though - cardboard around the plastic tray for a ready meal (print the instructions on the plastic container FFS!), individually wrapped VHS/MD/CD/tapes in multipacks, cereal boxes etc.

As for the ready meals/waste thing - I offset mine by not wanting kids. Having said that, could the poo be extracted from the nappies and manipulated in some way to produce biogas? The wee could be extracted, cooled, fizzed up, and sold as Heineken.

Humans=virus is correct. The writer of "The Matrix" was one clever person...

Though we pay a compulsory £100+ annual fee for refuse disposal and have a green and a black bin we have not had a single dustbin emptied in the 7-8 years we have been here. We actually use the (nice clean) dustbins as reserve water containers for the garden.

Our weekly "rubbish" amounts to the contents of a one litre milk carton which we place in closed rubbish bins at motorway picnic spots. Despite the (somewhat ironic) warning not to use them as household rubbish containers. Unfortunately the milk cartons are not burnable due to rules aaginst toxic smoke. Not that this stops my neighbours(from hell) from burning their polystyrene ready-meal packaging. The distinctive smell is unmistakable as is the black smoke emanating from their chinmney.

Anything else we need to dispose of is taken to the recycling station a couple of miles away every six months (if necessary).