Party of Citizens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Speaking of land fills, any opinions on Mount Trashmore in Michigan? It is > a very nice ski hill we hear, built up thanks to a lot of Canadian trash > exported from Ontario. The liners are supposed to prevent leaching. Do > they work?
Liners do work, at least for limited periods of time. They have been in use for about 30 years in landfills. They are not perfect, but they do reduce leaching from landfills. > > If so, here's your trivial pursuit question for the day: Since the > prairies of Canada are short on ski hills, what if ALL the trash of North > America were sent there? How high a ski hill could we build there? It's been done. " Located in the "Prairie Schooner" region of Saskatchewan, Blackstrap Provincial Park has one of Canada's rarest geographical formations - a "mountain" comprised of tons of fill, created with mammoth man-operated earthmovers. The hill was built to accommodate some events of the 1971 Canada Winter Games. " http://interactive.usask.ca/ski/tourism/sask_parks/blackstrap.html I expect it's a LOT of trash, especially if we continue our current practices (e.g. Ottawa is currently reducing what they permit into their recycling program, which is throwing previous projections for their landfill life expectancy out the window). Clearly, our initial emphasis has to be on reducing the current mountains (even if they are initially holes) rather than where to build new and bigger ones. > There's a guy on Canada-L who says that if we built a very high Mount > Trashmore in Canada, say 60 miles high, it will get blown away by > centrifugal force but not if it is built at the equator. Is that correct? Pardon my physics, but wouldn't the centripetal force be greatest at the equator? > If it is, maybe all of the world's trash should be sent to the equator. > > Z > > <http://www.geocities.com/partyofcitizens> > Citizens for the "inherent dignity and worth of the human person" > Quoted words from UDHR/CAT > <snip previous "what are the on about" thread> -- Darryl McMahon http://www.econogics.com/ It's your planet. If you won't look after it, who will? _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/
