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Originally Posted by gouligann
1, IF birds or other animals can't get into your garbage before pickup
2, your landfill sight workers do a good, quick job in burying household wastes, then there should be no problem with plastic ending up in the oceans.
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If there are floods, high winds, scavengers like bear or raccoons; many of the items we put in our trash cans might never get to the dump. NYC loved to send their garbage over to our area years ago. It is not as bad today because I think they haul to NY landfills? You could actually track the garbage haulers as they entered our State and made their way to the landfills. Eventually all trash hauler tarps get torn and when they do; then garbage can blow out during transport. Even local pickup waste trucks loose some of the garbage they pick up. Some people with pickup trucks end up littering the sides of our roads. People will throw loose garbage or articles in the back and it will blow out in transport.
Like I was saying, when we get major floods; they wash all that loose and some contained garbage plus anything and everything down stream. If a dam collects that garbage before it goes further; then eventually it will have to be removed. In 1968 I witnessed the power of the Susquehanna as it filled most of the WB/Scranton valley. Much of that ended up in our oceans.
The best way to dispose of garbage would be close to the 'generators'. The farther we ship that garbage the more that can go wrong.
By the way; it was not too long ago that much of NYC's garbage was hauled and dumped out to sea twenty miles off the coast. You could see one barge after another hauling it out as you fished from northern NJ.
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