Tuesday, September 12, 2017
And a dysglimmer
Way down at the other end of the intelligence scale, parts of Britain are returning to open sewers for ENVIRONMENTALISM.
Rolling the bin is no big deal. Many people leave it by the street, others keep it 20 or 30 feet from the street in the driveway or courtyard.
Under the new super-convenient system you carry your NON-WHEELED bin for 500 or 600 feet to the nearest receptacle, which may already be full, in which case you lug your NON-WHEELED BIN back and try again later. If it's not full you deposit your trash PIECE BY PIECE through the lid of the receptacle. Amazing gain in convenience!
This video from Sotkon, the maker of the system, shows that the receptacles are just big wastebaskets with small openings. It's not actually a sewer as Telegraph stupidly describes it; instead there's a big underground Dumpster in a pit beneath the receptacle, which requires a truck to empty it.
This video from a city in Portugal shows the upper part of the bins more clearly.
Why is this environmental? Less stops by the truck. That's the good part, supposedly. The bad part:
1. Smelly underground bin, guaranteed to attract rats.
2. A good rain, especially if the pit happens to be in a low spot, will fill the pit with water. Now you've got a permanent mess.
3. Can't be emptied or even reached when the pavement is covered with snow and ice. The area around the receptacle will always be greasy in summer and thus incurably slippery in winter, and ice will lock the edges of the pit opening for months. If you get a solid freeze after a rain, you've got a completely busted and unusable pit. Ice expands and breaks concrete.
4. Even in good weather the Dumpster will get full and the city will fail to collect it. Total overflow, no way for residents to take their trash out.
5. Hauling your trash around the block and pulling it out of your own bin piece by piece? You'll get dirty and cut up, and the street will get dirty and stay dirty.
6. With one bin per block, some people will have to cross several streets carrying a trash can to locate the nearest NON-FULL receptacle. Death and injury and liability.
7. Old or disabled people won't be able to handle this heavy labor. The city will end up providing wheelie bins for them, which means the trucks will circulate after all.
8. After seeing how it works, most people will load the trash can in their 400HP SUV and drive around to find the nearest NON-FULL receptacle, thus more than defeating the original idiotic purpose of saving gas.
Maybe there's some magic element that I'm missing, but the videos show the receptacles pretty clearly. I don't see how you get your crap into them if not piece by piece and sack by sack.
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Later thought: This is so phenomenally stupid that it CAN'T be intended as a trash collection system. Polistra's law of inferred intent: What actually happens is what the Insatiables want to happen. Therefore: This system is meant to fill neighborhoods with trash and rats and disease to EXTERMINATE the proles. It's a wastebasket of Deplorables. Circulating trucks are the wrong baseline for the environmental comparison. The correct baseline is bombs and tanks and snipers and Zyklon-B "showers".
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March 2018: The sun rises, water is wet, fire is hot, and the incalculably wicked infinitely stupid perfectly genocidal hyperalien monsterblobs which criminally and fraudulantly and iniquitously occupy the "city" "council" of the Spokane dysdysdysdysgovernment have adopted this fantastically stupid criminally murderous horrible idea.
Residents are told what can be recycled and given clearly labelled bins for their kitchens which match the signage on the steel bin chutes outside. The project means residents will no longer have to lug the heavy bins out onto the street, worry about when to put which bins out or where to store them. They will also be free of the sight and smell of the unsightly traditional bins - one underground bin replaces around 20 wheelie bins.No longer have to lug the heavy bins onto the street???? Wheelie bins don't have to be LUGGED because they are WHEELIE BINS. THEY HAVE FUCKING WHEELS.
Rolling the bin is no big deal. Many people leave it by the street, others keep it 20 or 30 feet from the street in the driveway or courtyard.
Under the new super-convenient system you carry your NON-WHEELED bin for 500 or 600 feet to the nearest receptacle, which may already be full, in which case you lug your NON-WHEELED BIN back and try again later. If it's not full you deposit your trash PIECE BY PIECE through the lid of the receptacle. Amazing gain in convenience!
This video from Sotkon, the maker of the system, shows that the receptacles are just big wastebaskets with small openings. It's not actually a sewer as Telegraph stupidly describes it; instead there's a big underground Dumpster in a pit beneath the receptacle, which requires a truck to empty it.
This video from a city in Portugal shows the upper part of the bins more clearly.
Why is this environmental? Less stops by the truck. That's the good part, supposedly. The bad part:
1. Smelly underground bin, guaranteed to attract rats.
2. A good rain, especially if the pit happens to be in a low spot, will fill the pit with water. Now you've got a permanent mess.
3. Can't be emptied or even reached when the pavement is covered with snow and ice. The area around the receptacle will always be greasy in summer and thus incurably slippery in winter, and ice will lock the edges of the pit opening for months. If you get a solid freeze after a rain, you've got a completely busted and unusable pit. Ice expands and breaks concrete.
4. Even in good weather the Dumpster will get full and the city will fail to collect it. Total overflow, no way for residents to take their trash out.
5. Hauling your trash around the block and pulling it out of your own bin piece by piece? You'll get dirty and cut up, and the street will get dirty and stay dirty.
6. With one bin per block, some people will have to cross several streets carrying a trash can to locate the nearest NON-FULL receptacle. Death and injury and liability.
7. Old or disabled people won't be able to handle this heavy labor. The city will end up providing wheelie bins for them, which means the trucks will circulate after all.
8. After seeing how it works, most people will load the trash can in their 400HP SUV and drive around to find the nearest NON-FULL receptacle, thus more than defeating the original idiotic purpose of saving gas.
Maybe there's some magic element that I'm missing, but the videos show the receptacles pretty clearly. I don't see how you get your crap into them if not piece by piece and sack by sack.
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Later thought: This is so phenomenally stupid that it CAN'T be intended as a trash collection system. Polistra's law of inferred intent: What actually happens is what the Insatiables want to happen. Therefore: This system is meant to fill neighborhoods with trash and rats and disease to EXTERMINATE the proles. It's a wastebasket of Deplorables. Circulating trucks are the wrong baseline for the environmental comparison. The correct baseline is bombs and tanks and snipers and Zyklon-B "showers".
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March 2018: The sun rises, water is wet, fire is hot, and the incalculably wicked infinitely stupid perfectly genocidal hyperalien monsterblobs which criminally and fraudulantly and iniquitously occupy the "city" "council" of the Spokane dysdysdysdysgovernment have adopted this fantastically stupid criminally murderous horrible idea.Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, Carbon Cult
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