[CrossoverManiac]

Originally Posted by Vexx

Sometimes things simply ARE complicated and can't be reduced to kindergarten soundbites.

Anyone who works in landfill and waste management knows that the US (and China, etc) is in trouble with available space for garbage. Reduce, reuse, recycle -- is at the least just good manners, eh?

No, there isn't. From http://www.de-fact-o.com/fact_read.php?id=89:

John Tierney wrote in the New York Yimes, "A. Clark Wiseman, an economist at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash., has calculated that if Americans keep generating garbage at current rates for 1,000 years, and if all their garbage is put in a landfill 100 yards deep, by the year 3000 this national garbage heap will fill a square piece of land 35 miles on each side. This doesn't seem a huge imposition in a country the size of America. The garbage would occupy only 5 percent of the area needed for the national array of solar panels proposed by environmentalists. The millennial landfill would fit on one-tenth of 1 percent of the range land now available for grazing in the continental United States. And if it still pains you to think of depriving posterity of that 35-mile square, remember that the loss will be only temporary. Eventually, like previous landfills, the mounds of trash will be covered with grass and become a minuscule addition to the nation's 150,000 square miles of parkland."[5]