Brazilians complain about British garbage-

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:55 am

Brazil dumped with British garbage / General News - Efficient Farming : Your one stop Agricultural Portal

Shame, shame, shame on you.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:26 am

Shame on who?

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 11:54 am

abbey;1233075 wrote: Shame on who?

If I were guessing, I'd say.......

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:47 pm

hoppy;1233062 wrote: Brazil dumped with British garbage / General News - Efficient Farming : Your one stop Agricultural Portal

Shame, shame, shame on you.

Actually it's a fairly big issue here. We've also been dumping toxic waste in india and africa-it's illegal, American companies are at it as well as European. Actually if I were you I would worry more the toxic waste american companies have dumped at home.

Eco-USA Toxic Waste National Priority List (Superfund) Sites

Superfund Sites Where You Live | Superfund | US EPA

You don't have the NHS to make you better if you get sick.:sneaky:

FUBAR · Post by **FUBAR** » Fri Aug 21, 2009 1:37 pm

And don't forget........

Love Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

See what happens when private companies go for profit over all else....

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 4:35 am

It does seem that the British Embassy are looking in to it, according to your article. Bad, though. I have no problem with a trade in waste that can be recycled, but this is just dumping. Do let us know if you come up with the names of the companies.

Good thing there is regulation of this market under which bad companies can be penalised.

Bill Sikes · Post by **Bill Sikes** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:07 am

abbey;1233075 wrote: Shame on who?

The criminals responsible for this - three arrests have been made. The stuff should be back here by now, for proper disposal.

Brazil waste ship returns to the UK - 21 Aug 2009 - BusinessGreen.com

amongst others.

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:11 am

Bill Sikes;1233304 wrote: The criminals responsible for this - three arrests have been made. The stuff should be back here by now, for proper disposal.

Brazil waste ship returns to the UK - 21 Aug 2009 - BusinessGreen.com

amongst others.

Very good.

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:13 am

Wonder what happened to all those great ideas about making fuel and electricity from trash?

Post by **spot** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 7:38 am

hoppy;1233314 wrote: Wonder what happened to all those great ideas about making fuel and electricity from trash?
The US rather lags some other parts of the world in that, sadly. Denmark generates around 5% of its total electricity from waste incineration, Germany's not far behind, it's a maturing technology but deploying it's well under way. The potential for dealing with farm waste is taking off too, there are a lot of new commercial anaerobic digesters feeding the National Grid in the UK.

hoppy · Post by **hoppy** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 8:41 am

Happy to hear someone is developing this technology. I always been interested in this sort of thing but have been out of touch on it lately. Don't read well these days.

Clodhopper · Post by **Clodhopper** » Sat Aug 22, 2009 6:07 pm

They started using human soil as fertiliser in England some years ago. Cheap and effective, but you notice the pong. Much worse than pigs, though not as strong. I'm generally in favour, but it won't do much for tourism if too widespread.