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New Jersey County Fights Landfill Odors Using Fragrant Spray Trucks
Not to be outdone by the Chinese and their deodorant guns, Middlesex County, New Jersey has unveiled their secret weapon against landfill stink, a perfume spraying truck. The flatbed truck equipped with special nozzles now drives around the 200-plus acre landfill spraying hundreds of gallons of a soapy, slightly citrus-scented liquid. From the article: "'It has a pleasant, showery smell,' said Richard Fitamant, executive director of the Middlesex County Utilities Authority, which runs the landfill. 'It's not offensive and it's not overpowering. It's a light scent.' Faced with a competing mandate to handle the loads of trash while curbing the stench, officials have turned to the roving, over-sized air freshener to control the smells wafting from the 200-plus acre landfill."
I can only imagine what something like this is doing for the environment...
Look at your landfill, now look back at me...
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein
Instead of consuming and throwing away less and living sustainably, our future is Febreze. If only that were a solution to the floating garbage island in the pacific.
For every problem, there is at least one solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
So instead of doing something to actually reduce the odor, they try to mask it by adding yet more smells.
Nice. I hope the spray is also fragrant.
sounds like what this guy went through: http://www.robotswithfeelings.com/2010-08-09/an-open-letter-to-the-dumpsters-in-my-apartment-building
New Jersey wants trucks with fragrance, NOT fragrant spray trucks.
Yours In Ashgabat,
Kilgore T.
Just move those assholes from the show "Jersey Shore" away from Jersey. Problem solved.
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
Instead of dealing with a pollution problem by attenuating or removing it at its source, a new source of pollution is added, an additional detoxification load on local residents' livers and kidneys. Why do we have so much cancer, asthma, and many other pollution-related diseases? Can it be that it is an utterly stupid idea to add more contaminants to our environment rather than zealously trying to reduce them? How scalable is this? Will we add more airborne chemicals to the home, the workplace, our cars, and everywhere else there is an unpleasant odor? Do people think these things are innocuous just because nobody falls down dead right away?
I'd like to know how much of this trash comes from New Jersey and how much comes from New York City.
NYC handles little of its trash in the city, a minority of it in New York state, and otherwise sends it all into New Jersey, on barges and rail cars to Tennessee and Virginia, etc. Pretty much every sanitation policy of NYC constitutes a fiscal and environmental disaster. New Jersey may be wasteful and rude as well, for all I know, but I'm betting the majority of the extra trash comes from New York. This problem just might disappear if New York were to construct a few of the (profoundly environmentally friendly and electricity producing) new models of incinerator or build landfills in their own damn state. I'm not from any state discussed in my rant, by the way; I just think New York is an all-consuming, wasteful jerk of a city.
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Why not the whole state?
FAQs are evil.
they'll be spraying the whole state? zing
Rotting food is not pollution. The problem isn't the smell, the problem is the number of people moving in closer and closer to the landfill. Wow! this house is only $150k! Whats that smell?!? We should complain!! Darn landfills making me not want to live in my cheap house that's right by the landfill!!! Our city has a rather large landfill... rather than put housing next to it, they turned the 300+ acres surrounding it into an arboretum. The trees don't mind the smell at all.
there's a Brawndo joke in here somewhere.. just need to find it.
Why not the whole state?
Because a lot of the state is actually quite nice. Woods, rivers, lakes, trails, beaches ... Small/medium sized towns and suburbs filled with trees or on the coast ... The run down industrial areas that you see on the Sopranos and the tourist oriented areas you see on Jersey Shore are the exceptions, not the rule. There are lots of jokes about the industrial and tourist areas, many from New Jersey residents, but there are also some pretty nice areas that ex-presidents retire to, executives working out of NYC live in, etc. There are also a lot of nice places for middle class budgets.
Now, they just need deodorant trucks to spray down the rest of New Jersey.
Dose the it with liquid mushroom culture, and next year the pile will not only smell better, it will be smaller. Everybody wins.
It can be go tiem now plees?
My girlfriend told me to kiss her where it stinks, so I took her to New Jersey.
Be relentless!
The flatbed truck equipped with special nozzles now drives around the 200-plus acre landfill spraying hundreds of gallons of a soapy, slightly citrus-scented liquid.
I bet Kim Kardashian's pretty excited that there's finally a use for her new perfume.
"A government is a body of people usually -- notably -- ungoverned." -Shepherd Book
Rotting food is not pollution. The problem isn't the smell, the problem is the number of people moving in closer and closer to the landfill. Wow! this house is only $150k! Whats that smell?!? We should complain!! Darn landfills making me not want to live in my cheap house that's right by the landfill!!!
I've seen similar issues in California. Homes gets nearer and nearer to Air Force and Navy bases and then the new residents complain about planes flying around at 3am. The Air Force and Navy bases were explicitly acknowledged in their signed disclosures but people have literally been quoted in the newspapers saying things like: I knew about the base but I never imagined they would be flying around in the middle of the night.
Who ever signed off on this needs to be fired. Gas Plasmification is the way to go http://www.ecomii.com/articles/2007/12/31/finding-clean-energy-in-trash We can then get us some biochar too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biochar
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When there are services people expect to maintain civilization, but bitch whenever they are asked to pay for it.
But no, people don't want to pay for it. That want to 'cut fat' and lower taxes and get more service.
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Perhaps in a decade or so they will further imitate Europe in the middle ages and begin bathing and washing the refuse before burying it...
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"The flatbed truck equipped with special nozzles ..."
Hello -- "special" troll here with a special alert.
This perfume-dispensing nozzle is not special. It does what every other nozzle does: nozzle stuff. Nothing "special" about it.
If what you really mean is "I'm super-impressed by this nozzle, because it's doing nozzle stuff I've never dreamed of before," then say that instead.
Thank you for your cooperation.
-kgj
If near term cost is the only concern, all you do is create more problems. They could build a geodesic dome over the land fill, and burn the methane and turn that smell into energy, but that would require investment.. They could start separating the trash and recycling, while keeping biological waste in compost heaps that reduce the smell, but that would require investment.
America is basically like a 7-11 that's about to go under. The shelves are barely stocked, the sign has been broken for months, and nobody really gives a shit because they've been watching the boss raid the cash drawer for years.
Head west, and start circling Washington, D.C.
A light showery scent, eh? Who wants to bet that A) it does NOTHING to cover the stench of decaying garbage and B) the "perfume" will be held responsible for a growing cancer rate, the failure of the schools or the corruption in government. Garbage stinks and there's not much you can do about that! For that matter so do NJ politics. Maybe they should spray that stuff around Trenton. Pam http://www.talksocialnews.com/
Ingenious solution, but just like "Junk Shot" it is bound to fail.. Why not just Nuke it. It's already planned to be a quiet neighborhood for the next 10,000 years or so.
This is New Jersey, right?
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Shouldn't the truck be driving around the whole state.
they should buy a giant rocket from the mob, amass all the trash into a large ball, and then shoot it into outer space where we'll never hear from it again.
They just need to carpet bomb the dump with Fabreeze bombs!
One of my clients was in the waste management business. They had stationary misting nozzles that did the same thing that this truck is doing in Jersey.
The coolest thing they had was a hawk to chase away the gulls. Almost as cool as sharks with laser beams... almost.
Instead of consuming and throwing away less and living sustainably, our future is Febreze.
It's not trash that smells, it's garbage (ie, food that's been thrown out.) If people had garbage disposals and compost piles, you're right, it wouldn't be a problem.
Please help metamoderate.
Mascara for the bruises
Maybe they should just bring in The Situation in to scare the bacteria from producing the stink with his amazingly ripped abs.
My fiancé lives less than a mile from said plant and has so all of his life. For the 8 years that I have known him and have been 'visiting' I have yet to smell an odor from it. I take our daughter to the entrance to go sledding every winter without fail, still, no odor. I sit in the Wawa parking lot that overlooks said dump and eat my lunch, still, no odor. I currently reside by an Ocean County (NJ) landfill. I have lived here for 2 years and had no idea that I was a mere 1/8th of a mile from it. Maybe we're just lucky and the wind takes it away from us, I don't know.
a shit.
I was born and raised in a certain area of New Jersey... now familiar to the world at large as the Jersey Shore. The coastal wetlands and numerous streams, creeks and rivers provide an extraordinary breeding gound for mosquitos.
In the 1960s, we happily followed the "Mosquito Truck" for blocks and blocks. We frolicked in the thick fog that sprayed across the lawns and gardens. Danced, even, in the cloud of poison that came from those trucks. Ah! Youth!
I can't say if that shit was DDT (or worse) but it did have a unique aroma... the fragrance "Poison" always causes an olfactory flash-back.
The smell of a million decomposing Rutgers parking tickets...
"Kiss her where it smells, take her to New Jersey!" - George Carlin
I'm sure George would've had some very snarky and funny to say about this one... maybe "too little, too late" or "why didn't they think of this years ago?"
R.I.P. George Carlin
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This stuff leaches into the ground, anyone know what it will do to contaminate the eco-system, and what about air borne stuff, does it contain anything that is not good when it comes to air borne environment. We had something to say about spray cans and hairspray etc.... now we have full fledged trucks doing it, I hope we are not using the same technique as spray cans???
You may be on to something here. And you've given me an idea.
How about taking one of those high-pressure water-spray trucks -- the kind that The Man uses to wash away street riots -- and filling the tank with perfume. The nozzle on that device might qualify as a truly special nozzle. And if not ... at least the riot will smell nice.
-kgj
So we fight one type of contamination with another? Doesn't that mean it will be TWICE as worse than if we just ignored the initial problem!