Beijing is to install 100 deodorant guns at a stinking landfill site on the edge of the city in a bid to dampen complaints about the capital’s rubbish crisis.
The giant fragrance sprays will be put in place by May at the Asuwei dump site, one of several hundred tips that are the focus of growing public concerns about sanitation, environmental health and a runaway consumer culture.
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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, 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.
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Beijing’s waste problem – and China’s – is expanding as fast as its economy, at about 8% each year. With millions more people now able to afford Starbucks, McDonald’s, Kentucky Fried Chicken and other elements of a western, throwaway lifestyle, the landfill sites and illegal tips that ring the capital are close to overflowing.According to the local government, the city of 17m people generates 18,000 tonnes of waste every day – 7,000 tonnes more than the capacity of municipal disposal plants.
I wonder if these things could be used to disperse Soma.
They need a “Burger Wrapper and StarBucks Cup Disposal Tax” !!!
Can be conveniently converted to anthrax dispersers if citizens continue to complain.
Wonder what it would take to CAP/COVER them and gather the gas, as hydrogen and other gases..
The fragrance? … counterfeit Chanel #5.
It makes me wonder when are they going to use furnaces and turn that garbage into electricity.
re#6, Angel…
Oh. I thought American man say, turn garbage into a wreck city.
Would this gadget help cover the stench that blows around inside the Washington beltway?
Um, “Deoderant”? ^_^
[Fixed. – ed.]
When they run out of land, they’ll use the sea.
We will bury you, China, in our decedent capitalist fast food waste. Now we’ll see who buries who first.
I suppose that spending some of the trillions of dollars they have stashed away on US landfill equipment is out of the question.
Thought so.
What’s Soma?
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soma – h.]
Gonna fix the title for you…
“Giant Chinese Deodorant Guns to Mask the Stench of the Lack of Having a Voice in Their Government”
There. A much better title.
We could use some of these… On Wall Street!
# 6 Angel H. Wong said,”It makes me wonder when are they going to use furnaces and turn that garbage into electricity.”
I gotta wonder with you, why this is not being done. Twenty five years ago, I worked at a hospital that built and operated an incinerator for medical waste. It generated a large portion of the steam heat the hospital needed and generated electricity for some non-critical areas. True, they had to accept the medical waste from other hospitals to make it financially feasible but the other hospitals were happy not to have to pay to dispose of their contaminated waste.
My point is, if this sort of technology was that far developed a quarter century ago, you’d sort of think it would be mainstream by now.
Can I get one of these for my bad B.O.?
Bobbo – I doubt they are exporting the technology they lifted from Germany and Italy. But, give me your address and I’ll be happy to send you a bar of medical grade disinfection soap.
No sarcasm intended.
I would like to know whats in the landfill..
IF its all organics, they can run LINES threw it to gather heat, as well as Gasses for combustion.
If there are any chemical pollutants, they SHOULDNT BE THERE.