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MADem

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32. Someone is gonna do it, eventually .... and I can't wait until they do!

Thu Aug 1, 2013, 11:50 PM

Aug 2013

That would be one helluva "Junior Year Abroad" experience for college kids....go out to the patch, spend a few weeks collecting and baling, pull into a nice port, see the sights, offload the bales for transport to...Sweden, say!... and then head back, doing the same collecting and baling on the way home.

Bill Gates oughta fund that, do a "semester at sea" type-experience for college kids. They could even teach a few "environmental" classes for credit and make it a real learning experience.

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Amazing - Sweden has run out of trash [View all] malaise Aug 2013 OP

Well, they did stop making Saabs... jberryhill Aug 2013 #1

Bwaaaaaaaaah hahahahahha malaise Aug 2013 #3

Aw Jeez, just another Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #53

Another DUzy malaise Aug 2013 #56

Thread win on the first post. Well-played, sir. nt msanthrope Aug 2013 #6

Yup! True win... Agschmid Aug 2013 #12

lol. good one Liberal_in_LA Aug 2013 #17

I always had a secret love for saabs Arcanetrance Aug 2013 #21

I did too. Then I bought one. jberryhill Aug 2013 #22

Maybe thats my problem never owned one in fact I have never owned a car lol Arcanetrance Aug 2013 #24

Owning a Saab is a lot like not owning a car jberryhill Aug 2013 #27

I've heard the same about Jags which of course my dream car is one the XJ220 Arcanetrance Aug 2013 #28

I have heard Jags stay in the shop Heather MC Aug 2013 #72

It voids the warranty to take them out of the shop, I think jberryhill Aug 2013 #79

ha ha thanks I will stick with my great white horse, my mini Van. She's not p Heather MC Aug 2013 #83

It is like owning a fighter jet, since that's what the were originally created to produce. Sirveri Aug 2013 #36

But with much higher payments/expenses. Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #43

Stop it! You're killing me! 7962 Aug 2013 #67

Without a Saab, it's easier to walk out through your garage to the bus stop jberryhill Aug 2013 #78

Thanks for starting my weekend with a smile. 7962 Aug 2013 #81

My Saab hated and betrayed me from day one. NBachers Aug 2013 #60

DUzy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DainBramaged Aug 2013 #66

How about harvesting the Pacific garbage patch? NV Whino Aug 2013 #2

Seriously. silverweb Aug 2013 #4

LOL malaise Aug 2013 #7

This was my first thought as well lordsummerisle Aug 2013 #10

because it's filled with particles about 1mm and smaller in diameter snooper2 Aug 2013 #23

Not to worry, there are plenty of other garbage patches NV Whino Aug 2013 #25

Yep, I would start with China and some countries in Africa snooper2 Aug 2013 #26

They'd use more energy getting it to Sweden tularetom Aug 2013 #33

I don't think the Swedes are burning Jenoch Aug 2013 #29

It's looks quite do-able NV Whino Aug 2013 #54

Someone is gonna do it, eventually .... and I can't wait until they do! MADem Aug 2013 #32

Probably be afraid they'd get some of the glow-in-the-dark Japanese matthews Aug 2013 #85

Ah, there is that possibility these days. NV Whino Aug 2013 #87

I had a neighbor who marveled at how little trash I generated. Wilms Aug 2013 #5

It's amazing how one can reduce garbage malaise Aug 2013 #8

I use the service so little i tried to opt out, but the city wouldnt let me, 7962 Aug 2013 #69

Since this place implemented recycling it's a bag a week nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #15

If you get composting, its amazing how much that cuts into the garbage as well... Salviati Aug 2013 #18

Apartment living, or I would nadinbrzezinski Aug 2013 #30

Our family of four sets out 1.5 bags of trash a week AllyCat Aug 2013 #55

Yay! NYC_SKP Aug 2013 #9

Thanks malaise~ sheshe2 Aug 2013 #11

Couldn't we send them Congress? n/t winter is coming Aug 2013 #13

. ProSense Aug 2013 #14

That's mroe trash than they need malaise Aug 2013 #57

They are short on garbage. Not toxic waste... think Aug 2013 #76

The point being that energy should not be extractive. And needs to be generated as close to source KittyWampus Aug 2013 #16

Yes you have malaise Aug 2013 #20

Yeah, it's in all the IKEA stores here jberryhill Aug 2013 #19

At least IKEA uses sustainable wood. dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #48

Or at least they say they do caraher Aug 2013 #65

You go Sweden! Uncle Joe Aug 2013 #31

You're welcome malaise Aug 2013 #40

Sweden does just about everything right. SunSeeker Aug 2013 #34

This only leaves us with only option Snake Plissken Aug 2013 #35

Someone really needs to stop these anti-murican enviro socialist euro-trash burning hippie freaks. Zorra Aug 2013 #37

the swedes started privatizing their education system in the 90s. they were early adopters HiPointDem Aug 2013 #39

Well, they are the right wing of Scandinavia. n/t Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #42

It does not appear that Sweden has "privatized" it's educational system. Zorra Aug 2013 #74

you need to do more research. the majority of 'free schools' are private, for-profit. HiPointDem Aug 2013 #75

perhaps a new export market has just opened up for us? 0rganism Aug 2013 #38

But we were just assured that this cannot be because Sweden is a radical, far-left, idealistic Egalitarian Thug Aug 2013 #41

If it weren't for all the cat litter, we'd be down to spooky3 Aug 2013 #44

Wow!! That's amazing! xoom Aug 2013 #45

We could send them Ann Coulter. Le Taz Hot Aug 2013 #46

and John Tierney! MisterP Aug 2013 #68

Nope. Brigid Aug 2013 #84

I hadn't noticed you already posted this. dipsydoodle Aug 2013 #47

The more the merrier malaise Aug 2013 #59

and the Dutch have run out of prisoners! trusty elf Aug 2013 #49

Shit I thought it was a Comrade Eddie thread. stonecutter357 Aug 2013 #50

I guess we know where we can send that barge from NYC... (NT) Heywood J Aug 2013 #51

Howzabout we send em our trash? Uben Aug 2013 #52

plasma gasification. all that trash is free energy and useable slag. Sunlei Aug 2013 #58

We could probably end the use of petroleum products for fertilizers. Crowman1979 Aug 2013 #61

Here in San Francisco, we're at 80% recycling. displacedtexan Aug 2013 #62

That's pretty good malaise Aug 2013 #64

Maybe the US can send them some of our garbage. Remember the Auntie Bush Aug 2013 #63

I remember that well malaise Aug 2013 #71

Would they accept the trash the GOP creates???? benld74 Aug 2013 #70

Creates? malaise Aug 2013 #73

I'd like to know more about ALL the systems in the countries that are working better than ours, snot Aug 2013 #77

We are just a turd world country anyway. BlueJac Aug 2013 #80

Back in the 80s' when I was working the horse tracks there was a training center in Florida toby jo Aug 2013 #82

For-profit operators ARE allowed to run schools in the US. raging moderate Aug 2013 #86

Exactly gopiscrap Oct 2013 #91

Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2013 #88

Factorys TVDS Oct 2013 #89

welcome to DU gopiscrap Oct 2013 #90

No but I can join in welcoming you to DU malaise Oct 2013 #92