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Sprout
Really? Care to support that with some numbers?
Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:53am
192.86.118.96

Because IF picking up and recycling that garbage IS ACTUALLY profitable, you should EASILY be able to start a BUSINESS and make money doing it...

I have to SUSPECT that IF it WAS actually profitable to do so, SOME saavy investor WOULD have started a business doing it.

I suspect the TRUTH is that, while much of the material IS recyclable for money, the ACTUAL COST of going out and bringing it in is MORE than one would make by selling it to a recycling center.

  • Toxic tsunami trash washing ashore — ChristopherBlackwell, Thu Jun 7 5:43pm
    We are all connected on this planet though we like to pretend other wises. Now we have a hugh concrete and steel floating dock washing ashore on the Oregon coast with hundreds of millions of foreign... more
    • Does the dock ... — Mondo Fuego™ , Mon Jun 11 3:30pm
      ... glow in the dark? Spent a week on Ft Lauderdale Beach ... amazed that people still leave cigarette butts, bottle caps, plastic bottles, food wrappers and other trash on the beach. These must be... more
    • Plastic Beaches — kw, Thu Jun 7 6:34pm
      I recently saw a tv report on the tons of plastic debris floating in the ocean and washing ashore on the beaches in Hawaii. What a big mess. I suspect it's from the west coasters dumping tons of... more
      • What nation(s) should pay for those fishing boats? — Sprout, Mon Jun 11 7:31am
        How do you plan on raising the money to fund the operation?
        • Gee that is easy,the tax payers again (nm) — ChristopherBlackwell, Tue Jun 12 8:03pm
          • Which nations taxpayers? — Sprout, Wed Jun 13 7:01am
            Or do you envision some sort of international tax?
            • You know the answer to that — ChristopherBlackwell, Wed Jun 13 8:09pm
              Sprout, Since it is going to be our beaches it will be our taxpayers who end up paying. What is bad about is the companies that take part will make huge profits. But this is true in all disasters,... more
              • Huge profits... ROTFLMAO.... — Sprout, Thu Jun 14 5:55am
                Yes, if the TAXPAYER is tasked to fund it, the companies contracted to do the work will profit... But probably not the "huge profits" you are envisioning. I work in gov't contracting. While there are ... more
        • I haven't given it that much thought. — kw, Tue Jun 12 4:51pm
          I don't know why they even bother reporting such things seeing as the people who see the report can't really do much about it. I'm concerned about all that junk out in the ocean; and I figure there... more
      • Your suspicions are wrong... — macsj, Thu Jun 7 8:10pm
        ...The west coast buries, recycles, and burns it's trash. We even take Hawaii's. The east coasts of the rest of the Pacific nations and the west coasts of Central and South America, plus the east... more
        • The report didn't mention whose trash. — kw, Fri Jun 8 11:50am
          I saw another different report about the growing trash problem in China. While the reports were very good about exposing the trash they were not clear about whose trash was being dumped or what... more
          • iYou did, as quoted inside... — macsj, Sat Jun 9 11:10pm
            "from the west coasters dumping tons of waste out in the Pacific" If I said "I suspect the Atlantic trash concentrations are from trash barged out to sea and dumped by the East coasters". Would you... more
            • But I was wrong... — kw, Sun Jun 10 5:14pm
              ...as you pointed out. So the East coast states routinely dump trash in the Atlantic? I don't know who's doing it, as I said the report didn't mention. And I can't clean up such a ecological disaster ... more
              • Sorry, my bad mood. Not your fault. (nm) — macsj, Sun Jun 10 5:35pm
                • Thanks! — kw, Mon Jun 11 5:36am
                  I didn't expect an apology, though, and should have kept my suspicion to myself. By use of satellites they could discover and put an end to using the oceans as a garbage dump. Maybe they already have.
                • Had my share of bad moods — ChristopherBlackwell, Sun Jun 10 6:14pm
                  macsj, I hope that you come out of it. Bad moods make things harder than need be.
                  • macsj must have been ... — Mondo Fuego™ , Mon Jun 11 3:48pm
                    ... eating "Bad Mood Food". LOL I am always in a good mood ... right? :)
    • Trying to prevent invasive species. — ChristopherBlackwell, Thu Jun 7 6:28pm
      Nice to see some action. Now the question will be how effective it will be. However I think it is a good thing to do. Oregon removes seaweed from wrecked dock to guard against 'invasive species'... more
      • Humans are an invasive species. — Ken C, Sat Jun 9 8:51am
        I think humans mess up the environment and cause more extinctions than any other animal does.
        • Probably true — ChristopherBlackwell, Sat Jun 9 6:24pm
          Ken C, We have wiped out 90% of all the forests turned a lot of land into desert,so you might be right. The odd things is with what we know we could change our behavior if doing so was considered... more
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