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LA Times (Yahoo Archived): California went big on rooftop solar. Now that's a problem for landfills.
California has been a pioneer in pushing for rooftop solar power, building up the largest solar market in the U.S. More than 20 years and 1.3 million rooftops later, the bill is coming due.
Beginning in 2006, the state, focused on how to incentivize people to take up solar power, showered subsidies on homeowners who installed photovoltaic panels but had no comprehensive plan to dispose of them. Now, panels purchased under those programs are nearing the end of their typical 25-to-30-year life cycle.
Many are already winding up in landfills, where in some cases, they could potentially contaminate groundwater with toxic heavy metals such as lead, selenium and cadmium.
Sam Vanderhoof, a solar industry expert and chief executive of Recycle PV Solar, says that only 1 in 10 panels are actually recycled[.]
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“The industry is supposed to be green,” Vanderhoof said. “But in reality, it’s all about the money.”
But-but-but...wind turbines will be better than solar panels, then, right? No.
Wind Turbine Blades Dumped In Landfills: 50,000 Tons Of Non-Recyclable Toxic Garbage.
From "kickstart 'hopes to'" to "finished, completed successful product" is a long, long road.Beer and soft drinks could soon be sipped from “all-plant” bottles under new plans to turn sustainably grown crops into plastic in partnership with major beverage makers.
[Avantium] biochemicals company in the Netherlands hopes to kickstart investment in a pioneering project that hopes to make plastics from plant sugars rather than fossil fuels.
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“This plastic has very attractive sustainability credentials because it uses no fossil fuels, and can be recycled – but would also degrade in nature much faster than normal plastics do,” says [Avantium’s chief executive, Tom van Aken].
Avantium’s plant plastic is designed to be resilient enough to contain carbonate drinks. Trials have shown that the plant plastic would decompose in one year using a composter, and a few years longer if left in normal outdoor conditions. But ideally, it should be recycled, said Van Aken.
A bill passed in California on Monday could ban hotels in the state from supplying guests with small complimentary bottles of shampoo, conditioner, lotion and other care products.Maybe this bill simply seeks a method to prevent Joe Biden from inhaling their hair.
The move comes as part of an effort to stem plastic consumption and also limit plastic waste thrown out by guests and hotel operators.
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If the bill becomes a law, lodging establishments would be inspected regularly and any owners or operators found to in breach of the statute would face hefty fines.
"500 years..which mean your poop from when you were a baby is still in the landfills!"
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....classic data say everywhere from two hundred to 500 years.Other Sites state plastic bags take between ten and 100 years to decompose.
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... that plastic breaks down at cooler temperatures than expected, and within a year of the trash hitting the water.From the Orange County Register from 2014:
...a comprehensive analysis recently undertaken by Reason Foundation, which looked at the impact of plastic bag bans on the environment, found these claims don’t stand up to scrutiny. Indeed, the ban is likely to do more harm than good both to the environment and to people’s pocketbooks.
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Banning them has practically no impact on the amount of litter generated, the amount Californians pay for waste disposal, or the risk of flooding. In fact, when plastic bags were banned in San Francisco, the county’s own studies showed that litter actually increased.Forget the research. Deny the studies showing banning plastic bags increased litter. Forget about the facts. Why...You're On A Mission!
