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The Vultures gather!
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The Vultures gather! No its not like that ..lol was reading another article about garbage dumping and waste issues plaguing the land and oceans ...Seems Lima Peru has a bit of a handle on the issue of waste and garbage dumping..The country has no means of getting rid of the tons of garbage , in a Country of 9 million people , that's a lot of garbage ..The issue was getting desperate and since there is no conventional way of dealing with it ...the vultures have come up with an ingenious way of ridding the place of most of the garbage..Hats off to them.. What seemed to be a hopeless quest to find a way of dealing with illegal dumping now is easy to spot thanks to the hundreds of vultures who take to the air every time someone dumps a load..The vultures lead authorities right to the spot and usually by the time those guys get there the birds pick up and fly away with the choicest bits of edible stuff leaving the guys to either burn or sort things out that can be taken away ..but the things that can be hauled off have really no place to go and most generally left on another heap...The solution? Well whats normally left that's the problem the piles of metal now its not a whole lot but they are trying to come up with a way of dealing with that issue ..but they feel its not as important as following the birds who lead them to the illegal dump sites ...if it weren't for the birds it could be way worse... There is actually 5 Countries that contribute to 60% of plastics that makes its way into the Oceans, China, Indonesia, Philippines ,Thailand and Vietnam..thats 1 ton of plastic for every 3 tons of fishin the Ocean by the year 2025. as Asian economy rises they are adapting to the Western way of consuming things such as cigarettes pop and other plastic filled containers of junk food..and most of it does not end up in any landfill.the garbage is piled up in communal dumps where the rains and high tides sweep it out to sea.In Indonesia there are people who scavenge the dump piles for plastics that can be sold to recyclers for profit but the rest is left to wash out to sea..Although corporations are not churning out the plasic containers , such as shampoo or pop with the intent of it ending up in the ocean it does however present a severe problem that needs to be addressed. Its a vicious circle with the planets wildlife and oceans fish who pay the price ...whales do not need to shampoo or that sugary thing called soda but end up getting the bottles that held the product.      |
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3/23/2019 3:59 am |
Even the vultures know when its lunch time..Lol
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3/23/2019 4:17 am |
lol yeah I believe there are about 30 different kinds and too bad we couldn't teach them to do a bit of a clean up once in awhile ...lol
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3/23/2019 4:22 am |
Thanks for caring for the planet. It seems like a thankless task. You are right, we could eliminate half the packaging and switch to biodegradable and recyclable materials, but few but us seem to care. It starts at the manufacturing. Or why combine paper, aluminum and plastic, all in one drink container when Paper would work.
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3/23/2019 7:43 am |
Thanks for caring for the planet. It seems like a thankless task. You are right, we could eliminate half the packaging and switch to biodegradable and recyclable materials, but few but us seem to care. It starts at the manufacturing. Or why combine paper, aluminum and plastic, all in one drink container when Paper would work.
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3/23/2019 9:23 am |
This is so sad, using the Ocean as a trash can. People don't realize they can harm the food we eat in the Ocean too!
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3/23/2019 10:14 am |
yes its true when I was growing up my Dad was a fisherman all his life and in the 60's early 70's there was a Mercury scare because of dumping drums of all sorts of illegal toxins in the ocean where they sank and lay on the bottom..seems the mercury drew the swordfish for some reason and they became loaded with mercury..not many people are aware that certain levels of the product can lay inside of the ground feeder fish such as swordfish..most humans can tolerate small levels of mercury but larger levels make ppl sick of course...I was one of the ones who couldn't tolerate the amounts and used to get real sick...studies were done and the amounts were sky high in the fish and people everywhere got real sick till it was under control....mercury poisoning is very serious indeed..
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Government-subsidized biodegradable soybean plastics for the win. Even an herb as sweet as basil is nothing without its bite. Lord Basil
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3/23/2019 3:00 pm |
Government-subsidized biodegradable soybean plastics for the win.
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