Why can't we compress our waste and drop it into the ocean to form an artificial reef?
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It might sound a good idea but sooner of later - the waste WILL break up and all the component of that waste - whatever it is made of - garbage, household chemical that is mixed in that waste, minerals, artificially formed product (eg plastic) will end up polluting the sea even more. Our waste is made up of a lot of material that can not break down so it will end up "broken off" the compress blocks and float all over the ocean. What a catatrophy what would be! Don't under-estimate the power of the sea.
You wouldn't want to go to a beach and swim in bits of pollutants, would you?
many reasons:
1. why do we need more reefs?
2. reefs are made of various LIVE ORGANISMS living in harmony, they are environments
3. crap is dead (unless there is somenthing veeery wrong)
4. a reef is simply not made of crap bricks.
I think that is a good question, the rubbish we chuck out wouldnt be dead, it would create some life. but I think the main problem would be that it would probably interact badly with the life in the ocean and cause environmental damage
If we compress our waste and dispose it into the ocean, within few years the height of the oceanic floor would increase and this would cause the rise in sea level. The ultimate outcome would be floods and Tsunamis. Infact this is a secondary reason but the primary effect is damage to the enviromment and hence to our ecosystem. This can be explained as follows. disposal of the waste into the ocean would someway result in its decomposition and finally if affects the life of sea creatures.
The danger would be that it would expand again and the ocean would become a giant boggy landfill site. No, better to drop a load of bath sponges into the ocean, as they hold many times their weight in water and could conserve the seas while preventing coastal erosion.
Rising sea levels, Duh !!
It's biologically impossible. Even compressed waste could cause dangerous pollution.
it would stink.
It's not quite the point. We are screwing up our planet from the production of waste..more than it's getting rid of waste. Madonalds for example is all packaging and very little food. We need virtually no packaging and all food. So lets stop the polystyrene cartons, and lets take our stainless steel containers to the depot and get them filled up. If we invested is Stainless steel holders for washing up liquid, squash, coffee etc etc...then the containers would last a lifetime, they could always be used as scrap metal, and we would get rid of all the plastic bottle trouble. hassle I know...but it's what you get used to. We buy too much stuff. I have limited myself to 2 bags of shopping. My shopping bill has come right down, and my dustbin has hardly anything in it.I would love to work in a college or school environment showing and challenging the next generation to reduce their waste.
the fish would eat it if you are talking about human waste
if you talk about trash it would kill all the fish with contamination
No, that's not nice to dump our dirty trash in the ocean,what we need to do is recycle everything,or stop buying things and grow our own food and can it in jars,burn our old clothes or make quilts out of them,like in the old days,they didn't have much trash then,but people have gotten to spoiled and lazy to really preserve our environment,they just like to talk about it and not do anything.
I would have thought that this method MAY result in some sort of mess up within the water itself, toxins or rubbish, you never really know what is in a dustbin.
But on reflection I thought maybe it would be a better idea to fill up all the holes created by deep mining, for coal, and copper etc., this would also alleviate the dangers of SINK HOLES appearing. Yorkshire has quite a problem with old abandoned miles, creating sink holes and subsidence?
That would just be concentrated pollution in the ocean
What do you think that's happening now?????
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