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Beijing Sweetens Rubbish With Giant Deodorant Guns
An anonymous reader writes "Beijing plans to install 100 deodorant guns at a landfill site on the edge of the city in the hopes that it will dampen complaints about the capital's rubbish crisis.The giant fragrance sprayers will be put in place by May at the Asuwei dump site. From the article: 'Municipal authorities say they will also apply more plastic layers to cover the site in response to furious protests by local residents who have to put up with the stench when the wind blows in their direction. The high-pressure guns, which can spray dozens of litres of fragrance per minute over a distance of up to 50m, are produced by several Chinese firms and based on German and Italian technology. They are already in use at several landfill sites, but they are merely a temporary fix.'"
Now it will smell like rubbish and perfume! Two great scents that go great together!
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They should instead spray on biological reactants to absorb odors and/or biodegradation accelerators to speed up the process.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
Less than 4% of Beijing's rubbish is recycled – the UK recycles 35% – but is still near the bottom of the EU recycling league. Two per cent of Beijing's rubbish is burned but the rest is dumped in landfill sites, which cover an area of 333,000 sq m. Cities throughout the country face a similar problem.
Seems like they could make a serious dent in their landfill problems with just a little work.
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The high-pressure guns, which can spray dozens of litres of fragrance per minute over a distance of up to 50m
I'm just counting the days until department store cosmetics departments get this. In the arms race between perfume demonstration ladies and shoppers passing through the department, I think someone has just gone nuclear.
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News at 11: Researchers discover the deodorant was actually a mutagen. Half of Beijing is dead. The other half have turned into mutant zombies...
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It's news, it's just not a tech story.
Aw crap, am I feeding the trolls again?
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This IS news for nerds... at my workplace, we're strongly considering using this technology on nerds that "forget" to shower!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
You end up with char, oils, combustible gases, energy and more space.
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Feeding trolls or not, there are probably some very technical, nerdy solutions to this problem which are way better than "big perfume guns".
There are, though I don't know if they'd qualify for nerdy. Like the "landfill engineer" says, "This ain't rocket surgery." The basics of running a landfill "properly" (as proper as the whole landfill thing can be, at least) were figured out decades ago, including steps to minimize the odor, of which, spraying the pile with hundreds of gallons of perfume isn't one. Of course, many of those steps cost money and require diligence on the part of the operators. So good luck to the downwinders.
When you do that it just smells like the bathroom after someone comes out waving their spray can.
Which in turn, smells like a big bowl of greasy chili farts and roses.
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This seems pretty appropriate for Chinese Society and Government at large. I have to wonder if logic enters into the decision making process at all.
Take for example when I was living in an Apartment in Beijing where we were having issues with a light fixture in one of my roommates room. After several weeks of prompting to repair guy to sort it out, he comes over at 7am, while I'm getting ready for work, enters the roommates room... Stands on his bed (with his dirty shoes on) WHILE my roommate is still sleeping, and begins dismantling the fixture, dropping paint flakes etc from the ceiling onto the bed... all while smoking.
Or a more direct comparison is the Chinese solution to pollution right before the Olympics: Turn off the factories for a few days...
Didn't think "Hey, maybe we should keep the factories from polluting so much ALL the time..."
They're even censoring the smell of rubbish!
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If the trash over there is a big enough problem to require deodorant guns it sounds like it's also big enough to use those high-volume plasma incinerators.
Finally, a correct use of the tag for once!
You know, there is a difference between trolling and pointing out the flaws in your reasoning. Just saying.