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- BellyRub, on 09/17/2009, -10/+139Seems redundant, Burning Man is already a dumping ground for Bay Area trash.
- atroxodisse, on 09/17/2009, -12/+66They won't notice. Maybe the garbage will distract from the smell of the hippies?
- doublefelix, on 09/17/2009, -4/+39Here's a satellite view of the proposed site's sensitive and lush ecology 30 miles west of Winnemucca:
http://tinyurl.com/lsn5x2 - DirtyVicar, on 09/17/2009, -2/+36The exact distance of the proposed landfill is 52 miles from Burning Man; the article kind of glossed over this.
- GREEDOnvrFIRED, on 09/17/2009, -1/+31Funny thing is Burning Man is already famous the garbage it brings with it (and leaves behind.) And not in a neat regulated pile. But for miles along the exit routes. Maybe now they will have a place to leave their trash when they are done with it.
- jdames1980, on 09/17/2009, -2/+31This is idiotic. Probably every single person commenting on this article lives closer to a landfill than the distance they are talking about.
- djphilos, on 09/17/2009, -3/+30I live close to a gettho. Its about 30miles east of my house.
- hbyrne, on 09/17/2009, -1/+25Yeah, you really need to be using Google Earth and it's higher resolution in order to get a better sense of how this might be detrimental to the tumbleweed population nearby.
- mobbo, on 09/17/2009, -0/+1930 miles? I can see my house from here. HEY MA! GET OFF THE DANG ROOF!
- zwendkos, on 09/17/2009, -13/+30HEY SAN FRANCISCO IMMA LET YOU FINISH BUT FIRST OF ALL BURNING MAN ALREADY HAS THE BEST TRASH EVER.
- sonnybobiche, on 09/17/2009, -10/+25FTA: "Critics are concerned that the dump would pollute the air and water and become an unsightly mess in the middle of the high desert."
It's a goddamn desert. Who's going to drive 30 miles from the nearest podunk town to shed a tear over all the ugly garbage they're being handsomely rewarded to store? - darkism, on 09/17/2009, -7/+19Isn't there enough trash from California in Nevada already? Go home!
- blueingreen22, on 09/17/2009, -2/+13Does this article not seem ridiculous to anyone else? it is 30+ MILES away from anything....in the middle of the desert. Why is anyone upset about this?
- inactive, on 09/17/2009, -1/+12"Recology, formerly NorCal Waste Systems..."
I love the smell of greenwashing in the morning! - zwendkos, on 09/17/2009, -1/+12what "like?"
- CabesMojo, on 09/17/2009, -0/+10I'm not really sure why Burning Man was even mentioned in the article, probably just an attention grabber.
- circadiem, on 09/17/2009, -1/+11I live in Vegas. It seems that all those who couldn't make it in Cali, end up here working as cocktail waitresses & strippers.
- CabesMojo, on 09/17/2009, -0/+10You would be surprised. People hunt and off road to these places just to get away. If they don't want California's trash in our state, who are you to chastise them for it?
- jbmcb, on 09/17/2009, -1/+1030 miles away is not "close".
- DirtyVicar, on 09/17/2009, -0/+8Dude, the spot you linked to is 5 miles west of Winnemucca, not 28 miles west.
- hydrodev, on 09/17/2009, -4/+12That meme was born and died on the same day.
Kayne West Meme - September 2009 - September 2009 R.I.P. - rrife, on 09/17/2009, -2/+10Burn it....make it part of the festival.
- rolf, on 09/17/2009, -1/+8We should obviously send this trash as a giant garbage ball into space.
- Mike17102, on 09/17/2009, -0/+6I say we nuke the entire site from orbit, its the only way to be sure.
- CabesMojo, on 09/17/2009, -0/+6Granted massive tracks of Nevada appear as nothing more than a wasteland to people from other areas. You may not care about it, but its still our back yard. There is enough resentment towards California in Northern Nevada already this just adds to it. They don't want California's trash, its their right to say no. California's trash is California's problem.
- YoWhatDaFuxUp, on 09/17/2009, -1/+6They should just dump their garbage in oakland
- Awwzm, on 09/17/2009, -3/+8With the added stench, Burning Man will be bigger than ever!
- circadiem, on 09/17/2009, -2/+7Nothing can mask the overwhelming stench of BO & patchouli oil
- urbanetruth, on 09/17/2009, -2/+7It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of ecosystems to glance at a picture of a desert and say -- there appears to be nothing here, so it's disposable. Some of these places have very rare and delicate biology. Deserts are not wastelands. SF, on the other hand, is.
- CabesMojo, on 09/17/2009, -0/+5Yeah but its our not valuable, unpopulated, unused area. Being filled with trash from what is an area full of empty gesture type green wanna bees.
- UselessTrivia, on 09/17/2009, -0/+5You can't smell a landfill from that far away. You definitely won't be able to see it. Even from the top of a massive skyscraper on the clearest day possible you can probably only clearly see 20 miles or so, and that that distance a landfill would be just a spec on the horizon. From ground level you won't see *****.
- Upon66, on 09/17/2009, -0/+4Oh snap, everybody panic!
- rrife, on 09/17/2009, -0/+4Looks like the middle of nowhere to me.
- SpruceCaboose, on 09/17/2009, -0/+4Their group's acronym is NAG. How appropriate.
- dfross, on 09/17/2009, -2/+6If you were serious about keeping californian trash out of Nevada, you wouldn't let them in for Burning Man either :)
- ptoomey, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3Ouch
- fxu1989, on 09/17/2009, -1/+4All memes die the day they're born because they're overused.
Just give it a month or two when it settles down, and this'll actually be funny every now and then. - mywhitenoise, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3Exactly what I was thinking when I read the description.
- opticwind, on 09/17/2009, -3/+6""The notion that Nevada is some sort of wasteland because we don't have Ponderosa pines covering it is repugnant," said Jim French, retired wildlife biologist from the Nevada Department of Wildlife and a member of Nevadans Against Garbage, a group opposing the planned dump.
"Can you imagine the reaction in the Bay Area if the people of western Nevada bought some land in Marin County and wanted to ship their garbage there?" French asked."
No offense but the area they are talking about is not valuable, highly populated, or even being used right now. It:s not quite the same as dumping trash into the Bay Area. - Fleagleman, on 09/17/2009, -3/+6Burning Man is already a human garbage dump
- allisonaxe, on 09/17/2009, -1/+4ZING!
...yeah, I came to say the same thing but I liked the way you worded it better. I bet there will be at least 12 more posts saying that, though. - YourNameHere1, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3'Lucy, The Daughter of the Devil' was such a good show.
- CabesMojo, on 09/17/2009, -2/+5I'm kind of shocked at all the people who are surprised that people from one state may be opposed to another state's trash being dumped on them. People have a right to speak up to their opposition to this kind of thing and California which is supposed to be some kind of green loving open minded utopia is in shock that some one might not want their trash even in they are paid for it.
- york2600, on 09/17/2009, -1/+4It's not like they're forcing it on you. Chances are Nevada companies are actually seeking the stuff out. They make an enormous amount of cash. Face it you are American's dumping grounds
- swagv, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3Burning Man is so 1994. It's all Itching Man now.
- inigomntoya, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3I am unable, don't, or can't see, with my mind not my eyes, what your point might be, in regards to the title description of this article, which was posted on Digg, a social networking/news site on the Internet, claimed to be created by Al Gore.
- papashawn, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3My sympathy detectors are not picking up a whole lot from the comments here.
- SeanRockCity, on 09/17/2009, -0/+3thats cocktail waitress/stripper talk if you ask me
- DesertTripper, on 09/17/2009, -1/+3Every "remote landfill" plan in or near CA has been trashed. The proposed Rail-Cycle landfill, near Amboy, CA, was a big deal in the early 90s but it got shut down. There was also a plan to dump trash into the old Eagle Mountain iron strip mine near Desert Center, CA (actually not too bad of an idea, as it would have helped fill in the unsightly mine) but that too has been stalled, I believe, partly due to its proximity to Joshua Tree NP and the possibility, however small, of the scarce groundwater in the area being contaminated.
I can understand the opposition to a mountain of trash on a flat plain - we have a number of those ugly "trash mountains" around Southern Cal. - most notably, a big one in Ontario and another north of Victorville, both in plain view off I-15, and a growing one in Fontana, also next to a freeway. Another is starting to grow out of the bank of the Santa Ana River near Redlands. They thought nothing of aesthetics when they sited them, they don't even try to make them look natural, and they stick out like big rectangular terraced sore thumbs. A remote desert site might be good, but there's still the groundwater contamination issue. Liners don't last forever.
Bottom line: PEOPLE MAKE TOO MUCH DAMNED TRASH. CA is doing great with commonly recycled items, but huge trucks still rumble to landfills around the clock. It's time to either figure out a way to make/use consumables with less waste, or recycle everything that can possibly be recycled. My favorite idea: Make manufacturers of, say, disposable diapers, responsible for the life-cycle of their products, and be responsible for creating facilities to recycle or otherwise process the materials from their single-use products. (It's illegal to dump human waste into a landfill, yet authorities around the country look the other way when it's in diapers.) It's a mockery how so much overpackaged stuff can be produced with no accountability for the waste produced.
Things have come a long way since the environmental movement started in the 70s, but we have a ways to go and many problems to address. - digggggggggg, on 09/17/2009, -0/+2I thought they already did that. Hell, you wouldn't know by looking.
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