Comments on: Trashy news from Japan http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/11/19/trashy-news-from-japan/ Japan News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: one http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/11/19/trashy-news-from-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-264845 one Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:46:38 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=7341#comment-264845 at least americans bury it in their own country. <a>bout 150,000 tons of garbage washes up on Japanese beaches each year, with an estimated 6 percent thought to originate from overseas</a> lol 6%!! have you ever herd about the huge masses of floating trash in the pacific? at least americans bury it in their own country.
bout 150,000 tons of garbage washes up on Japanese beaches each year, with an estimated 6 percent thought to originate from overseas
lol 6%!! have you ever herd about the huge masses of floating trash in the pacific?

]]> By: Slippery Joe http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/11/19/trashy-news-from-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-264422 Slippery Joe Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:03:57 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=7341#comment-264422 You're kidding? Americans throw MORE stuff away than the Japanese. Is that true? If so, they must luuurv them some packaging. You’re kidding? Americans throw MORE stuff away than the Japanese. Is that true? If so, they must luuurv them some packaging.

]]> By: Jingai http://www.japanprobe.com/2008/11/19/trashy-news-from-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-264278 Jingai Wed, 19 Nov 2008 01:32:28 +0000 http://www.japanprobe.com/?p=7341#comment-264278 If all that the plant produces is really CO2 and ash why is there the tallest smokestack in Japan? Smokestack height is to dilute pollutants by sending them on the winds to other areas. This was a promotional puff piece and a better story would have looked at the history of Tokyo's "garbage wars", where the incinerators ended up sited, the lawsuit by the US military against an incinerator next to their base for dioxin emissions, etc. If all that the plant produces is really CO2 and ash why is there the tallest smokestack in Japan? Smokestack height is to dilute pollutants by sending them on the winds to other areas.

This was a promotional puff piece and a better story would have looked at the history of Tokyo’s “garbage wars”, where the incinerators ended up sited, the lawsuit by the US military against an incinerator next to their base for dioxin emissions, etc.

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