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The Wonders Of The Modern World: China's Amazing Tower Of Garbage
When it comes to ancient wonders of the world, there is the tower of Babel, and to a lesser extent, the leaning tower of Pisa. Sadly, modern wonders leave something to be desired: case in point, this 30 metres high garbage mountain at the crossroad of Huanghe avenue and Zhufeng street of Shijiazhuang, central China's Hebei province. The garbage mountain has been piled up as high as a 9-story Building in the last 30 years. The local village committee now is dealing with these wastes: best of luck. And to think all it took were several trillion in non-performing loans...
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bullish!
Looks like we are on our way to the great garbage avalanche of 2505 that caused Not Sure to meet Frito Bendejo.
Maybe it's a commodity...
Obama's future neighbourhood after his 2nd term.
Our future neighborhood after Obama's 2nd term.
We call it Mt. Stinky Poo Poo.
Owww! My balls!!!
All they have to do is put dirt over it and make it a park. We've done it here. Why they haven't done that is telling.
Paint it white and move Obama into it.
Don't get junked like fonestar did!
Buh Bitcoin Today!!
It's got what plants crave!
Methane?
I wish I had the money to travel to China. I'd throw a large bag of shit right on top of that pile. Then I'd hum an Elton John tune. Me so clazy. Bitchez.
Dig it out, splatter some spackle here and there and sell them as LOTR approved upscale hobbit condos.
There is an even bigger one of these inside the federal Reserve...
That's not shit. America can do better!
Garbage stacked for centuries, with no plan what so ever:
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http://pics.imcdb.org/0is524/gt001106nm1.934.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Testaccio
"...is one of the largest spoil heaps found anywhere in the ancient world, covering an area of 20,000 square metres (220,000 sq ft) at its base and with a volume of approximately 580,000 cubic metres (760,000 cu yd), containing the remains of an estimated 53 million amphorae. It has a circumference of nearly a kilometre (0.6 mi) and stands 35 metres (115 ft) high, though it was probably considerably higher in ancient times"
Looks like an asset, smells like a liability.
"China has has created whole cities of discarded, “outmoded” technology and countless heaps of appliances, vehicles, equipment, and machinery"
the last 4 years gdp ened up in that pile.
That's what $4.3 trillion of US Treasuries looks like...
brawndo has electrolytes. it's what plants crave.
if youve not seen Idiocracy....you need to rent it. it's coming true before our eyes.
Thanks for the reminder. I don't really watch movies - do want to see that at some point though. From what I've heard, I can tell that it's already true heh.
Highly recommended.
You need to watch that one, Skateboarder. Well worth the price of admission,. It's an awful movie as far as acting and plot goes, but so are most other real-life documentaries.
Idocracy is not a movie...it's a documentary.
Rent??
lol.
-Chumblz.
Its more of a strange cross etween Wall-E and Idiocracy. Wall-E!
Feed stock for Mcdonalds burgers?
Midas, thank you so much for that.
The Chinese are resourceful, and you can bet that this garbage, is truly garbage.
However, this is a city of 10+ million, and you can find a mountain of garbage in any 10+ million person city anywhere on this planet.
The advantage China has, is that if they truly wanted to get rid of this pile, they would do it, and they would do it fast. Not like America where enviro-nazi's, policies, rules and permits would keep this shrine around for decades even after someone wanted to deal with it.
To me it shows they really do have a middle class now....the poor would never thow anything out......I always thought it would be a good long term idea to buy old waste dumps in the USA...before recycling....as they are full of metals and goodies that in the future might be worth remining out of the dumps...
Future mines.
I can confirm that
It's no different than how we deal with our garbage, it's just more centrally located.
Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class.
WALL-E.
NYC
This won't necessarily apply to the city and suburban types but for us rural folk, garbage piles are a good thing for attracting predators like bear, wolf, wolverines, wild dogs and other after SHTF.
A tree stand over these sites will allow easy hunting for food and nutrition as the predators will come in for the feast. A few bears can last for months if prepared properly.
Just sayin. Use shit to your advantage and don't fret it. Garbage disposal and lack there of is conin to the USSA.
I thought it was NJ?
But that there is American trash ~made~ in China, therefore its not only exceptional, it serves as the collateral for the US Debt.
Rubbish!!
this is exactly like the movie "Ideocracy"
It's great fuel for an incinerator. Cheap energy.
Dear rats. It's a trap!
If you zoom in tight, you can see it's all discarded copies of the New York Times and poorly counterfeited DVDs of Windows 8.
Real copies of Windows 8 that nobody wanted. Same with the Times.
This thing goes back to Vista I'm sure. Gotta make up a buch of it.
<< If you zoom in tight... you'll be able to see those Fuki rods Japan paid [bribed] $$$$$ some PRC official to hide >>
The Tower of Babel and Nimrod and the Nephilim.
Same monetary system then as now.
I still amamazed that no one has figured out how to fling garbage out into space. . All we have to do is get it far enough out there and it's not our problem anymore. Fuck it just dump it on the moon. Or simply send it towards the sun and it will be naturally incinerated. Maybe that's what the sun was always for. It not only provides light and life, but it's a giant dump.
Because of the cost?
Hello....we can print money....
The technology is there. Look 1 minute into this video and you will see the template is there and it's cost effective.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyLUCnTdu7o
I love it. Maybe my computer just knows my proclivities (it does) or yours (it does), but the ad that preceded your Watermelon slingshot was for 9/11 truth.
So was mine, and I never ever.......... evar questioned the official 911 story.
Everything the government tells us is true.
I love my NSA overlords.
damn I just went and looked and I got the same ad.
See you in Camp 7!
Thats not a Google preference ad, though I too shall be in the camp. (Of course I'll be pretending that I don't know any of you heathens)
The building fell..what's the big deal? Buildings fall? I never thought anything of it....
I got the same ad.
They will never take me alive.
(manaical laughter...)
My district falls in the FEMA camp 14 region, so I'm sure I'll probably go to camp 21...... or 3. See..... all divisible by 7 (as in building7). Ask Lagarge about the meaning behind that.
OMG, That is soo cool! I was tortured at camp 21 last spring...they have a wonderful buffet, but the lounge chairs by the waterboarding pool fill up fast. Maybe just have one of your fellow ZHer's get up early and reserve you a spot. It is great catching up with some of the old gang like cheeky, trav and francis- tell them I said "Hi" if you go!
i think we are the garbage of the universe, sent here in the corner of the universe billions of years ago
fonz,
"One man's garbage is another's treasure."
When you think about it, these piles contain the
preferred elements of today's manufacturing.
These garbage hives are tomorrow's resources.
Best to all,
Mr. Brown.
CONX & IMSC
Exactly! All those dumps will be the sites where civilizations of the future draw whatever "magical fluid" they use to run their economies. They will marvel at these pools, and make use of these highly concentrated accumulations to power their vehicles and machinery. They may occasionally wonder about the long-dead world that left all those deposits that decayed into their magic fluid, but other than that, it'll just be same-old, same-old.
One day you and all your hopes and dreams will be in the gas tanks of some highly developed species of rodent.
I thought of doing the same with nuclear waste. Trouble is, nothing can go.wrong at launch.
Watch Idiocracy by Mike Drudge. We are there.
China is a mental disorder.
Mike Judge/ Matt Drudge
I'm sure Matt likes Mike's work...Luke Wilson is great
'welcome to Coscto, I love you'
I could really use a Starbucks.
"The years passed, mankind became stupider at a frightening rate. Some had high hopes the genetic engineering would correct this trend in evolution, but sadly the greatest minds and resources where focused on conquering hair loss and prolonging erections."
HA HA !!
Mental Malinvestment!!!
Betting that there is not much reusable in that pile.
In a few short years, new silver mines will be dug in that heap
It is amazing how many yearn for regulations, or lack of, that would make us more like China.
Looks like the usa's national debt . Keep printing full speed ahead
On day 1.
Is that AnAnonymous taking pictures of exceptional Chinisms?
Cap it and siphon off the gas.
Why aren't they burning it in their power plants?
It took them 30 years to do that? They must be masters at recycling. The placement is a little awkward but other than that they should be proud.
A Mountain is typically defined as over 1000 feet in height. This litle pile is only ~100 feet. Unless its growth is exponential, it will take 970 more years to become a mountain.
Someone needs to open it up for Tobogganing during the wet season...
Anybody see Wall-e in that mess?
It wouldn't function cuz metal & electronics pillagers scooped up all the parts off that shit. ;-)
lol...looks like the chinese-made tarp held up quite well to keep the runoff out of the groundwater.
Well done central planners!
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Pics one, five & six, if you're playing along at home ;-)
they got nothin' on Staten Island....gtfooh!
Good place to put dissidents.
Send in the enviromentalists, I've got a long list of them that need one way tickets.
No Birds?
They were lunch
You should see the pile between constitution and independence
Idiocracy.
That movie represents the USA in about ten years if we continue with the leftist elitists as our governing model.
Dumb MF'ers!
I think that place needs more orphans to pick through that for recyclables.
somebody give jumbotron a poke he is fully trained bottom feeder the human dung beatle they call him
he can work his way to the top of this shit pile mountain i guarantee he will not be smelling of roses.since he already smells of shit i guess nobody will notice a change.
Cover it with dead pigs and death threatening air pollution haze and no one will see the garbage.
Problem solved.
I think I see a lot of USSA dollars in that garbage pile...or am I just seeing things?
impressive
he with the most shit wins....
Those are teeney weeney garbage mountains compared to the 2 we have along the Turnpike in So FL. The 1st is in the backyard of Coral Springs (Broward) aka Mt. Garbage - it wafts a wonderful odor throughout the newer developments at certain times of the day. The 2d is in Palm Beach Cty and the Turnpike just south of the western section of Palm Beach Gardens. Oh how delightful it must be to own a million dollar manse in one of those gated communities prized for their fake lakes and ridiculous CC fees when the wind from the dump wafts through your overpriced gated community. Then again, it probably doesn't smell any different from the areas where the Northeastern transplants who inhabit these areas so they probably barely notice the putrid odor.
The US government recently made a similar sized mountain of garbage called "Obamacare".
Which is higher, the pile of garbage in China or the pile of BS the US tells?
Is that An_Anonymous in the 2nd pic, pointing out his roadside-shitting contribution to the pile?
All part of the plan, they've already built a replica Paris, a replica London -- they're going to pile it high enough that they can pop a ski lift on it, and turn this into a replica Gstaad. All they need is a few thousand vertical feet more garbage, but anyway the investment is fully subscribed.
Goats will refine the garbage issues. No labor disputes or pension funds arguments. Just shoot the goat and be on your merry way. The offspring with carry the heavy lifting.
Doesn't this sound like the Jew parasites stealing American wealth to fund wars? Never do you see them using their own money, they steal others to model themselves as the chosen one. I call Israel a fortified group of grifters. Better yet, gypsies that run from county to the next calling anti semitism to fund terrorism wars. Do you hear that oven fired up, it's cooking a pizza Jew fuck.
Inventory oversupply! Coming soon to a Wal-Mart near you.
Food or vegetable? Or is it overstocked inventory to unleash at a loss..
Hope to interconnect abuse of EBT with Walmart and Target. Others will fall off the cliff. Washington DC hates me. Fuck them. We love our country, too many people with guns. They're Fucked in a handbag.
it does not exist, Chinese PR, noone would alow anything to stink like that
What are you suggesting? Federal Reserve Petrodollar or BRICS?
It's all fun and games until the cops show up. Winks.
Central bank counterfeiting creates such misallocations of capital by giving investors incorrect signals...
America's Amazing Tower Of Garbage: Detroit
Yep. Detroit. Plenty of 'misallocations of capital' there too.
I bet half that pile is composed of copies of Geithner's book
I was thinking "Hard Choices" but it wouldn't be hard to see that pile grow out of it.
This is just a version of Monte Testaccio with a higher organic-matter content.
Leave it a while and you will be able to build on it; put the right types of fungus spores on it and you'll be able to grow vegetables on it in a month and a half.
If you follow the Belt Parkway from Brooklyn to Queens, you will see strange, incongruent "hills" in what used to be salt marshes. it is NYC's garbage. They covered them with dirt and built on top of a lot of them. Why are there no articles about this? America was as dirty and polluted as china when we went our "industrial" phase. Now we don't make anything, so that is not a problem any more.
When did the US stop generating trash?
I play golf at a reclaimed dump once in a while in Palm Beach county. Occasional methane smell but generally it's windy so usually not.
Another option is to encapsulate it and collect the methane released.
Eh, this is what happens when the locals protested incineration plants and other garbage processing. Garbage has gotta go somewhere
So that's what a Chinese ski slope looks like.
Torch it.
"Country of the future," the mainland kids (here on student visas, trying to get pregnant,) keep telling me.
Curiously, none of them wants to go back to PRC, ever.
Go figure.
and the west exports their waste to the third world countries
http://rt.com/news/e-waste-illegal-environment-uk-043/
Please say it loud: NOT SUSTAINABLE. :)
Nothing is sustainable; the sun is burning out, the cosmos are drifting away, etc. "Sustainability" is a pipe dream of the weak that runs counter to everything great about life (risk, growth, change, learning, competition, evolution, passions, emotions, war, mystery, etc).
War?
start by divide amount of packaging by 2 when you buy something, then world will be already better. never understand why there is carton above plastic when you buy everything, as if it was impossible to print on plastic... yellen print money on toilet paper, so wtf...?
Lots of excessive packaging is there to stop shoplifters.
The Chinese will find a way to sweep it under the carpet.
I blame global warming. Either that or racism.
30 meters high? Big deal! The Mallard Lake landfill in Illinois is 300 meters tall and covers 230 acres.
typical american behavior, always in overbidding.
Puente Hills, 150m 700 acres and growing, another modern ziggurat of trash.
Sustainability means planning our future in a way that we do not set ourselves up to crash and burn at some future date. Long-term planning has not been something politicians excel at or are even good at. Our system is geared at getting politicians reelected and fulfilling the most pressing needs of today.
Things like profit, greed, and quenching our unrelinquishing desire for growth are placed in front of longer term issues and needs. Mapping out a logical and sustainable long-term plan requires delving into some rather hefty philosophical questions like what brings real happiness. More on this important topic in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/04/planning-sustainable-future-for-m...
'Sustainability' is liberal PC psycho-babble. It's adherents are no more knowledgeable or effectual than a bum on the streets.
Disruptive technological advances combined with geopolitical calculations completly mitigate any efforts toward your sustainable utopia.
TPTB will maintain the status quo even if they have to nuke the world to do it.
For most of his time on earth man has been a minor consumer of the earth’s stores of energy. With the discovery of fire man began to increase his demands and draw on the short-term energy stores that had been accumulated over scores of years or even centuries by woody plants.
In the last hundred years with the invention of the internal combustion engine and a huge increase in population man has begun to tap the planets long-term energy supplies of oil and natural gas at an alarming rate. We have shaped a world where our lifestyles revolve around and are dependent on oil and the consumption of energy from fossil fuels. More on how we impact our environment in the article below.
\http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2012/04/whats-in-footprint.html
We are a parasite on a host .. as we multiply and evolve we require more and more resources. Eventually we will kill our host, or it will kill us. Either way is natural and normal.
I think its amazing the chinese were able to find a process to use mountains of garbage to clean the smog out of the air.
Its a beautiful day!
Add to bucket list: visit Great Wall of China and Great Pile of Garbage!
One man's garbage is another man's treasure.
Throw a tarp over it and burn methane rather than coal.