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Dig soil&sand into your bin to shutdown toxic incinerators for Victory now!!!

Summer Breezer | 27.06.2008 13:38 | Health | Technology | London | World

add 5 buckets + of soil & sand+other safe particulate unflammable as possible material to bottom of your bin before filling up. If you live by seaside your lucky, sand is still kept at petrol stations in buckets for a reason. This should seriously help shut the illegally toxic incinerators which regularly breach emissions.
Dig for Victory!!!!!!!!

Incinerators are currently belching out many chemicals now including nano minute toxins which travel thousands of miles further & can pass our normal blood, skin barriers easily going deeper into the lung than asbestos.
Waste companies are also burning or dumping valuable resources like plastics which we will probably have to mine trickily from landfill in the future. Anaerobic digesting & real recycling are the only sustainable option economically & environmentally.
People with cancer near incinerators also will be may be able to sue soon.
The current policy is criminally insane& some of the company directors& owners involved if they do not stop may well face criminal charges in the future. They could make profit & help save the planet now if they invest in sustainable renewables now!
The price of raw materials will keep going up, stop burning them & poisoning us as well as your own children.

Summer Breezer

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Nano minute toxins?

27.06.2008 15:15

Substances can become far more dangerous due to being able to cross into the blood through the lungs, but you won't reduce a substance to nano-particle sizes by simply burning them.

If you could, then we wouldn't only be discovering them now as we've had access to fire for a fair old time.

MonkeyBot 5000


Obvioiusly this is just a suggestion, it isnt illegal to accidently put small

27.06.2008 15:33

amounts,5buckets say of soil or sand in the bottom of your bin its our duty for our children & our environment.Most councils would agree with this though they are often tied into 20-30yr old ridiculous contracts that dont take into account digesters or recycling & energy problems. Dont add wood to your waste bin or anything flammable, in fact until we can shut it down, it worth putting in damp food waste etc.

Summer Breezer


Monkeybot for goodness sakes,nano man made materials obviously!

27.06.2008 15:45

theres thousands of household products using them now, burning them is total madness,

Summer Breezer


Cool,best to bagged to get past sifters & hoppers on many incinerators&coordinat

27.06.2008 19:23

e it to have maxime impact, pass this on folks to all incinerator campaigns. Ive seen them working this should work!

Sammy


Cool,best to bagged to get past sifters & hoppers on many incinerators&coordinat

27.06.2008 19:48

e it to have maxime impact, pass this on folks to all incinerator campaigns. Ive seen them working this should work!
glaze&pot the toxic blighters

Sammy


What about the worker who lifts your bin?

28.06.2008 17:46

Defra (the department for environment, farming and rural affairs) figures that every person throws about 511kg of waste per year. Of this 511kg we throw away 375kg and recycle 135kg. You divide the 375kg by the amount of times some worker carries your waste somewhere else. Most people generate an average bin bag from the kitchen bin of 1.8kg : four bin bags per week means 7.2kg.
of which 30% Organic 33% Paper & Card 3% Textiles 8% Metal 6% Glass 7% Plastics 9% Misc.
4%

= Most of the volume of household waste doesn't weigh as much as it would if everyone added sand or earth. Especially if that sand or earth was moist. I reckon the workers who carried it would notice.
But if you carry your own bin I reckon you're not hurting anyone and best of luck to you.

belch


THEY ARE WHEELIE BINS! WITH HYDRAULIC LIFT LORRIES

28.06.2008 19:53

THEY ARE WHEELIE BINS FOR GOODNESS SAKES

SUMMER BREEZER


erm

28.06.2008 20:55

THEY ARE WHEELIE BINS! WITH HYDRAULIC LIFT LORRIES


....erm, have you seen the bin men in the morning doing the rounds? bin ban takes two wheelie bins by the handles, pulls them off the curb backwards, then deftly spins them around so they are in front of him, the hydraulics on the truck take care of the rest. trying to do this repeatedly throughout the day with bins weighing far more than usual will lead to exhaustion and injury, you are in the IWW, you should know strike action would be far more effective.

Sorry, but it is a daft idea.

dusty bin


for goodness sakes afew bucket loads, yeh lets organise a strike as well, good

28.06.2008 22:41

for goodness sakes afew bucket loads, yeh lets organise a strike as well, good

Green s


Dumbest idea I've heard for a while.

02.07.2008 22:47

MEh?

So you want everyone to load up their bins with sand and other particulates (massively increasing the mass of non-recyclable waste to be dealt with) because you think if everyone did it, that binload couldn't be incinerated?

Let me count the ways:
* more waste means more demand for landfill sites or incineration
* have you thought how many people would need to do this for it to make a difference?
* particulates are bad, so put more particulates into the system
* less efficient burning means more particulates
* your scheme would create more large particulate pollution
* you want to incinerate (or at least throw away) soil, a scarce resource
* which would burn at incinerator temperatures _anyway_

You need to calm down a bit, this is a bad and flawed idea that shouldn't have left the pub.

CH


particulate lime is used to lower temperature filter in incinerators+

08.07.2008 10:30

if everyone did it would have an effect. Our lungs are a even more precious resource than soil. Any better ideas genuis, nothing is totally flawed, are you by any chance sitting on a corporate payroll Meh?

green s


particulate lime is used to lower temperature filter in incinerators+

08.07.2008 10:47

if everyone did it would have an effect. Our lungs are a even more precious resource than soil. Any better ideas genuis, nothing is totally flawed, are you by any chance sitting on a corporate payroll Meh?

green s


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