Environmental Effects "3"

The past two days leaned toward positive effects we can have on the environment. When Layne said there were a few items that needed to go to "the dump" this morning, I just smiled. Our deep freezer had just been cleaned and, well, do not get a deep freezer. Out of sight and you know the rest. Plus a few old hanging pots and recycling like glass and cardboard that they actually give you a credit for when bringing in actual 'garbage'. So a light load.
There are are a few dumps in the Portland area that you can bring recycling, yard debris, batteries and paint, general garbage, construction debris, appliances, concrete, roofing, automobiles (not really), but pretty much all of it, and of course the kitchen sink. It gets bulldozed every hour or so into bigger piles and loaded up and driven to a landfill or commodity centric mixing bowl to start anew. A good way for recyclables to get folded back into the system, at least most of it. But still not the greatest reason to keep hoarding and wasting.
Everyone should have to take all their waste to the dump. Instead of the weekly pick up. Where even the weekly breaks down recyclables, glass, foodstuff and yard waste, and just garbage too.
To see all that waste, in ginormous piles is an eye opener. Sometimes the populace needs to get a knock on the head.

An extra shows a dumper, having pulled up next to my pickup with his trailered cargo carrier full of stuff, probably from a kitchen remodel. And the 25 foot wide poster as designed by a grade schooler.

And...what the homeless do with our throwaways. Or how we throw away the homeless.
Next Abstract Thursday AT7