Why don't we just throw all our garbage into volcanoes?

[rangerrebew]

Why don't we just throw all our garbage into volcanoes?

Because it's a long way to the top if you want to rock and roll
By Mary Beth Griggs November 20, 2015
 
Great question. Glad you asked. While volcanoes might seem like the ideal natural incinerator for our massive amounts of garbage, there are a few obstacles between us and a magical geological trash chute to the center of the earth.

Americans generate about 4 and a half pounds of trash per person, per day, or 254.1 million tons total per year. In order to dispose of all that trash in a volcano, you'd need to first locate an active volcano, and lug the trash there. That's the first problem. Not many people live near active volcanoes, so transporting trash to a volcano would cost time, money, and a whole lot of fuel. Then there's the fact that an even smaller number live near the right kind of active volcano.

https://www.popsci.com/why-dont-we-just-throw-all-our-garbage-into-volcanos

[darroll]

Great idea.
Recycling around here died. China quit trying to make cardboard out of catsup soaked cardboard sent from the us.
Here most all of our waste goes into the land fill.

[Joe Wooten]

It is highly amusing that most US recycling paces closed down to NIMBY by the "environmental justice" weenies, since these were usually located in old industrial areas that a lot of "minorities" live near. China decided to get on the gravy train and suck up some of the subsidies that recycling firms get, and now they are overwhelmed by  mountains of $hit.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

We have a waste to energy plant here. Not a bad idea.

[Frank Cannon]

We have a waste to energy plant here. Not a bad idea.

Big deal. There are McDonalds all over the country.

[catfish1957]

Why don't we just throw all our garbage into volcanoes?

Any takers to drive the truck up to the edge?

[Sanguine]

Any takers to drive the truck up to the edge?

I was just thinking that; it would add a whole new dimension to being a trashman.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Any takers to drive the truck up to the edge?

Conveyer belt might work.

[Fishrrman]

Weird wrote:
"Conveyer belt might work."

Belt would melt.
Stoke 'em from the air, like a blast furnace!

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Weird wrote:
"Conveyer belt might work."

Belt would melt.
Stoke 'em from the air, like a blast furnace!

Oh FFS dude, use your imagination. Conveyor belt would have a chute on the end, would keep it far away from the heat.

[GtHawk]

Big deal. There are McDonalds all over the country.

No, no, he said waste energy not waist energy, and for that nothing beats Taco Hell!

[Joe Wooten]

The biggest problem with this idea is that the garbage would just come right back out when the volcano erupts. Either as ash from a stratovolcano or mixed in with the lava in a shield volcano. With the stratovolcanoes, the vents are usually plugged with cooled lava pugs, so the trash would just pile up until it decided to erupt and blow it all up to 30,000-40,000 feet up......

[GtHawk]

Hey I'm all for throwing our trash into volcanoes, but you know the minute we start to seriously look at it as an option, all those damn human rights agitators would start kicking up a ruckus.

[darroll]

Hey I'm all for throwing our trash into volcanoes, but you know the minute we start to seriously look at it as an option, all those damn human rights agitators would start kicking up a ruckus.

They would yell that we abuse volcanoes.