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Three dumped Geeps lettered for the Idaho, Northern & Pacific on an abandoned stetch of the former San Diego & Imperial Valley (Before that San Diego & Arizona Eastern) near Ocotillo, California. They're boarded up and haven't been used for some time. There's some interesting information on Trainorders about these locos, how they came to be in California and the attempts to restore service on this stretch of line which is moribund west of Plaster City.
On the outskirts of the Thai town Mae Sot and just a few kilometers from the Burmese border, several Burmese refugees make a living out of picking recyclables out of the dump and selling them. Many of these refugees are families with small children who work alongside their parents- some without shoes or even pants. Some of these families even opt for living and sleeping directly on the dump itself in makeshift tent like “homes”.
The tug boat in the picture above is bringing tens of old New York City subway cars to the Redbird Reef off the coast of Slaughter Beach, Delaware to dump them into the Atlentic, almost 700 are already in the ocean bed... and all of this is actually a wonderful thing for nature!
Marine biologists have confirmed without a shadow of a doubt that huge metal structures at the bottom of the ocean gradually end up becoming a part of the ocean and they are amazing homes for a variety of ocean life. Now that is really wonderful and while that does not mean we fill the ocean floor with metal, it is a proper way it dispose a few Subway cars of that are now useless. The cars end up being a wonderful home for that beautiful marine life. "They’re basically luxury condominiums for fish." said Jeff Tinsman, the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control's artificial reef program manager, to the New York Times
Who would have thought that subway cars on the ocean floor would encourage fish to congregate? Rather than abandon the structures, fish are moving in at such a rate that the program is trying to provide more cars. What's more, the program is also facing competition from other states after its impressive success, as the city of New York offers the cars for free.
In the last several years, the artificial reefs have drawn swift, open-ocean fish, such as tuna and mackerel, that use the reef as a hunting ground for smaller prey.
The American Littoral Society and other environmental groups opposed the use of the Redbird cars because they have small levels of asbestos in the glue used to secure the floor panels and in the insulation material in the walls.
State and federal environmental officials approved the use of the Redbirds and other cars for artificial reefs in Delaware and elsewhere because they said the asbestos was not a risk for marine life and has to be airborne to pose a threat to humans.
Dumped rubbish in Dunflat Road East Yorkshire between Skidby and Little Weighton. This has been dumped in a passing place for vehicles. Taken with an iPhone SE Back Camera.
Reported via the free FixMyStreet website at 2:10 pm on 14 May 2013.
The bags were completely cleared by 3:50 pm that afternoon. An excellent service to the local community from Veolia.
Sadly the dumpers were neither excellent, nor had they the slightest regard for the local community. If you know who they are, please don't hire them. And ask your friends and acquaintances to boycott them as well.
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§ Thanks to Martin Ball for taking the photo of the dumped bags.
17 January 2018.
Two open bags of builders' waste left on the roadway in Dawlish Road, Tottenham, London N17.
The bags seem to have attracted dumping by people who assume that whoever removes them will take the added rubbish as well.
§ Reported to Haringey Council using Fix My Street free website.
I just hate to see litter lying around, anywhere!! So many people just dump their rubbish and never give it a second thought!!
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I had to lower the shutter speed to block some light out, just enough to be able to view everything around. I zoomed and acknowledged mostly on what the image name is referring too, but it was essential to get the point across.
This pic could be used in an ad that promotes community awareness or the damage cars have on the earth, or in a car pooling ad to reduce the mess.
Cool damp weather is in control as I arrive at the camp just before dark. Much of the leaves have already fallen but there are splashes of color here and there. October 12, 2012.
Opposite 74 / 75 Holcombe Road near the corner of Kimberley Road. Dumping reported to Haringey/Veolia and promptly cleared.
Why do some people leave rubbish near the base of tree trunks? Do they perhaps "read" the mud, leaves and lower trunk growth as "empty" waste ground.
Martin Ball suggested a second possible alternative possible. That the dumpers show some concern for passers-by, who might otherwise walk into the dumped waste.
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7 November 2019. Stroll and
Conversation with Martin Ball
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Several truck loads of garbage dumped on a side road to the new road going into HSIP. The barrier was placed here after a small load was dumped but it did not stop this massive addition. Dumped in Oct-07. See new group Taiwan - Illegal Dumping
It was parked on the bike path at the Krigslida commuter station for a few days until someone decided to dump it in the stream.
It’s a short ride on a sunny, arid morning down Congress Street in downtown Tucson, Arizona, to the dusty field that’s home to the Rio Nuevo landfills.
Right now, Nearmont, the smallest of three landfills on the site, doesn’t look at all like one. It’s just a bumpy 90-acre stretch of wide-open, dusty land beneath the shadow of downtown’s skyscrapers and against the bone-dry Santa Cruz River.
Drive back about 1,000 feet on the utility road, and you’ll see a chain link fence with an open gate. The chain link surrounds a square plot of land, fifty feet long and wide. On the plot at exact intervals is a nine-point grid of PVC piping penetrating the landfill beneath. A small construction trailer sits against the fence. And across from that, a large utility box, wires running into the ground.
To the untrained eye, it looks to be nothing more than a Tucson city water experiment. Or to the more suspicious in the desert, a covert government project. But this experimental PVC pipe grid - and what it’s doing underneath the landfill - could change the way brownfields sites of tomorrow are remediated.
Past, Future and Present
Behind the chain link fence is the City of Tucson’s bioreactor project. It is the physical beginning of a monumental and aggressive brownfields land remediation and redevelopment project. The landfill will become part of Rio Nuevo - an entire city district in the heart of Tucson’s downtown.
Projected, Rio Nuevo will take at least 20 years and $350 million to complete. The new bioreactor technology on Nearmont is paving the way for the Rio Nuevo of the future: an entire city district that will pay homage to the city’s historic past as one of the oldest settlements in the West.
In fact, archeologists have found that people have lived in the Tucson area as far back as 2,600 years ago. What’s now Nearmont was once part of the land where the San Augustin Mission was established in mid 1700s. The old Mission included a convento - a priest’s residence and trade school - a mission garden, a chapel, a granary and smaller storage buildings, the entire grounds surrounded by a wall. By 1840, the Mission had finally been abandoned.
As the Mission ruins disappeared into the late 1800s and early 1900s, the site became home to a clay pit. That ceased operations for good in the 1940’s, until it became its final incarnation: a 1950’s-era city dump. For twelve years, the site saw the only the city’s trash, until it was closed and forgotten in 1962. Thirty-seven years passed until Rio Nuevo had its rebirth.
In November of 1999, Tucson politicians put Proposition 400 in front of the voters - its purpose to raise $60 million in Arizona state tax money over ten years to help fund the Rio Nuevo project. It passed by a convincing 62% margin.
Among the planned projects at Rio Nuevo are a full-scale recreation of the San Augustin Mission and adjoining Cultural Plaza. Also planned are an Arizona Historical Museum, an American Indian Cultural Center and a Mercado with retail stores. More downtown housing will be added. Future additions include the Sonoran Sea Aquarium, the Tucson Science Center, an IMAX Theatre, an expanded Tucson Convention Center, and a City Visitor’s Center.
But the completed vision of Rio Nuevo is some years away. What Rio Nuevo has now is what’s behind the chain link fence - the experimental bioreactor.
100 Years in 40 Months
Underneath the Nearmont landfills lie decades of Tucson refuse. Between 15 and 50 feet of it.
The problem: the trash beneath the landfill must be degraded and made non-reactive. That, added with the methane gas landfills naturally produce make it too undesirable for building. Otherwise, any construction on the land would be at least century away - the time it would take the garbage in Nearmont to degrade naturally.
Tucson’s Office of Environmental Management (OEM), however, was preparing a solution - the bioreactor. But remediation technology like it had never been used before. If it did work, and proved safe and cost-effective, it would be used to remediate the other landfills.
The process it performs is called enhanced aerobic degradation. Simply, the nine-spot PVC pipe grid - dug under the ground and inside the landfill - naturally accelerates the landfill degradation by pumping controlled amounts of air and water into the refuse itself.
According to the data OEM has collected so far, the bioreactor will break down and settle the refuse, as well as eliminating the landfill’s natural methane production, in about 40 months. The end result: Composted land, ready for development.
Not only that, Tucson’s bioreactor has proven safe and cost-effective. Most importantly, it works. So well, that it's being made into a full-scale system for use on all three landfills.