Awesome work by the team from DOC (did i just say that) the Army and volunteers cleaning up the rubbish in South Westland. Looks like shit tonne of rubbish coming out.
@R93 might need to stop turfing ya tins out of the chopper window mate
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Awesome work by the team from DOC (did i just say that) the Army and volunteers cleaning up the rubbish in South Westland. Looks like shit tonne of rubbish coming out.
@R93 might need to stop turfing ya tins out of the chopper window mate
DoC found something they’d good at? Taking out the rubbish:thumbsup:
so why dont they just spray whole area with diesel and drop a match on it??? in six months time or after the next flood you wont know the difference....anything burnable will be gone,anything metal will rust away quicksmart....and dont give me the toxic bit...what they remove just goes into another tip further from the river. it seems like a giant waste of time and money to me.
Thats the attitude mate :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Hope you are teaching your kids the same if you have them, real role model
seriously WHERE do you think its being dumped now???
looking at the footage of river area there is a shit load of logs/roots/wooden debris that they are sifting through to get at the plastic etc...why not burn it???
At least if in a bin or landfill its not in the water ways. Or would you prefer we just gave up? Suppose you just biff shit out your car window?
Anyway, i wasnt interested in a debate on it, just saying good stuff to those mucking in
I hate the smell of burning plastic. makes my gut churn.
The landfills of old and the landfills of today are as different as a blunderbuss and a modern semi automatic firearm. Today’s landfills are lined, the leachate is treated through a reverse osmosis plant with the particulate redeposited into the landfill and the resultant water is cleaner than most river water. The methane gas created by the decomposing refuse is extracted and used to fuel generators that put electricity into the national grid.
If you burn it where it is you are punishing the environment for our own doing.
Aye, reminds of another famous line...... “love the smell of napalm in the morning, smells like victory”.
Thumbs up to all those tying to deal with clean up.
To much coal over there, it might get into a seem and keep burning for 100 years lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Hah. The use of napalm in that context came to naught and caused no good either.Quote:
Originally Posted by chainsaw
First off, thats about 1000 square kilometres. Secondly, uncontrolled incinerating plastic is not good for a lot of reasons. Thirdly.... Hang on... I think... Hang on, do I smell a troll?Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
Unless you see this mess for yourselves you won't appreciate the damage. Pics and news coverage doesn't show the half of it.
They don't show the rubbish that has washed out to sea and travelled both north and south along our beaches.
People I have been with and myself have picked up some rubbish but there is way too much for us to make a difference.
It is pretty sad really.
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lol yeah well..... I guess someone put it there...so someone has to pick it up AGAIN....and put it somewhere else AGAIN.
Taumarunui used to tip the rubbish into the gullies down behind the high school and cemetry....thats half a km away from a mojor river and the gullies are old washouts from years gone by.....do wonder if future generations will end up doing the same thing there as is happening on west coast.
and NO I dont biff stuff out car window.
the thousand square kilometres bit doesnt sound right...its a river bed so maybe what 500mtres wide??? even at 1km wide it would have to be 1000kms long...which it physically CANT BE.
and I thought they lost the war tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
and THAT right there was what made me think of a drastic quick solution....YES it causes its own polution...BUT it would remove a hell of alot in a hell of a hurry...Quote:
Originally Posted by R93
Who do you suspect are the worst colprits at not taking out what they had taken inQuote:
Originally Posted by R93
Think there might be a bit from those river rafting types - most prob lost in roll overs etc (or whatever you call a F up in rubber Duckie
We were winning when I came home:ORLY:Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarvo
It is from a blown out old dump used since the 40s mate. No one individual dumping rubbish while in the riverbed is responsible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarvo
Government and local council have a lot to answer for imo.
You won't believe where some of the rubbish has reached.
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OKQuote:
Originally Posted by R93
Sorry - I thought this was about river rubbish in general - thought bloody hell did not think place was getting used/abused to that degree
So where exactly are we talking about ??
Sounds very odd
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/11361...stland-councilQuote:
Originally Posted by Sarvo
Holly shit - and who would have thought in that part of Paradise :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
I dont have TV so miss the odd thing like this
Fox Glacier dump blew out when fox River flooded.
Spread rubbish from asshole to breakfast
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I am shocked !!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by R93
Now I see what Micky Duck was on about - thought he had lost the plot completely :-)
It is way too spread out to do anything but manually pick it up. From what I have seen it is not concentrated in a way that you could pile it up and burn it anyway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarvo
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Anyone hunting Doughboy Bay and Masons Bay on Stewart Island will testify to the piles of plastic strewn around the beaches. Mostly carried from currants from around the world and the westerly winds washing it up. Spose a lot of plastic from the Fox River will end up there as well.
It pisses me off that it has taken from the end of may untill a few days ago to get the army there. It was obvious from the start that this was huge and quick action was required. But great effort from those involved in the clean up
if it was the tongariro river we wouldve seen a different reaction time........
Doc must be happy with cleanup progress said the turnout of volunteers exceeded expectations and not taking any more from mid august (we were organising a group to go and help out)
Why, oh why,
Was a dump ever allowed to be established within a bulls roar of a Westland river?????, whoever would approve the site in the first place, the local council has a lot to answer for here! If it'd come from a farm, there'd be all sorts of Bureaucratic grossly overpaid shiny arsed council wallahs screaming blue murder, not to mention the Resource Management lot as well!
Good on the volunteer lot and the locals for their bit, as someone else said, the Govt, the Council, and the army should have been in there from day one!