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In this photo taken on May 3, 2008, smoke rises from a garbage mountain as garbage collectors work on a dump site in Guiyang, in southwest China's Guizhou province. As more Chinese ride the nation's economic boom, a torrent of garbage is one result. Cities are bursting at the seams, and local officials struggle to cope



In this photo taken on Sept. 1, 2009, a garbage truck dumps rubbish at a site near a village in Zhanglidong, Henan province, China. The acrid aroma of rotting refuse and sewage spews forth from a landfill as big as 20 football fields, spoiling everything around, including the lives of the locals. Peaches and cherries rot on the trees, infested with the larvae of insects drawn by the smell. Hundreds of acres of corn, gourds and tomatoes sit unharvested, the soil underneath contaminated by the muck leaking from the landfill.

China has 20% of the worlds population, now they will soon have a full 20% of the worlds garbage

Hey guys, there is an opportunity here. Our local dump has covered the garbage dump and are harvesting the methane gas. Most of our VA Center is powered by this natuarally occurring gas. Just think who much methane could be developed with this treasure chest.

And so it seems that the most industrialized we become, the more garbage we create.

Any metropolitan area creates significant amounts of trash. Some are better at hiding it than others.

Yuk!! 20 Football Fields.... Smelling like H3LL! .............................Do the Chinese use Trash Compactors??? ..............Just a thought.....

A bit OT here, but I find the tricycle garbage truck – interesting!

I’ve seen tricycle light duty vehicles, but this is the first heavy duty application I recall. I can see where it would provide a cost savings, but it seems like the trade-off would be potentially dangerous instability; the same reason that farm tractors went from tricycle style to 4-wheeled decades ago.

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Originally posted by DaleU:

A bit OT here, but I find the tricycle garbage truck – interesting!

I’ve seen tricycle light duty vehicles, but this is the first heavy duty application I recall. I can see where it would provide a cost savings, but it seems like the trade-off would be potentially dangerous instability; the same reason that farm tractors went from tricycle style to 4-wheeled decades ago.

ya and here you have the prospect of tipping over in the trash!

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Originally posted by Agent991:
Yuk!! 20 Football Fields.... Smelling like H3LL! .............................Do the Chinese use Trash Compactors??? ..............Just a thought.....

and oozing muck contaminating everything

might make a good rice paddy

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DaleU
Active Duty
1975-1999

Posted Sat 24 October 2009 10:08 AM Hide Post

A bit OT here, but I find the tricycle garbage truck – interesting!

I’ve seen tricycle light duty vehicles, but this is the first heavy duty application I recall. I can see where it would provide a cost savings, but it seems like the trade-off would be potentially dangerous instability; the same reason that farm tractors went from tricycle style to 4-wheeled decades ago.

I remember three wheeled trucks of that size in Korea, 1973-74. I saw one that had a chitload of 1/2/inch rebar that hit a telephone pole, all three occupants dead. The one in the middle was decapitated and had three bar going thru his head, his head was out past the hood bouncing up and down as the rebar was cantilevered, stuck half on the truck(foward of course) and half floating, surreal to say the least. All three were impalled by the bar but the guys head out there floating with those three bar through it took the cake,,,I'll never forget it, Korea 1973, I was ten years old, Mom telling me "Don't look" yeah right Mom,,,, look??? hell, I was staring, mesmerized. I saw a lot of people get killed in the two years I spent there, those people are brutal and human life has no value to them what so ever. I was so happy when we got back to the States, I kissed the ground at Hickam Air Force Base.

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Originally posted by BAGodbehere:

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DaleU
Active Duty
1975-1999

Posted Sat 24 October 2009 10:08 AM Hide Post

A bit OT here, but I find the tricycle garbage truck – interesting!

I’ve seen tricycle light duty vehicles, but this is the first heavy duty application I recall. I can see where it would provide a cost savings, but it seems like the trade-off would be potentially dangerous instability; the same reason that farm tractors went from tricycle style to 4-wheeled decades ago.

I remember three wheeled trucks of that size in Korea, 1973-74. I saw one that had a chitload of 1/2/inch rebar that hit a telephone pole, all three occupants dead. The one in the middle was decapitated and had three bar going thru his head, his head was out past the hood bouncing up and down as the rebar was cantilevered, stuck half on the truck(foward of course) and half floating, surreal to say the least. All three were impalled by the bar but the guys head out there floating with those three bar through it took the cake,,,I'll never forget it, Korea 1973, I was ten years old, Mom telling me "Don't look" yeah right Mom,,,, look??? hell, I was staring, mesmerized. I saw a lot of people get killed in the two years I spent there, those people are brutal and human life has no value to them what so ever. I was so happy when we got back to the States, I kissed the ground at Hickam Air Force Base.

Excellent post! I have travelled over the much of this planet and your response to the return to the states has been my feeling each time I return home. We have warts and pimples, but ours is far better than any country in the world.

Roger, amazing isn't it. Those of us that have spent some time overseas know very well what we have here at home. I've known since I was ten years old what others will never learn in their lifetime. Just like a puppy, I'd like to take some people overseas and rub their nose in it, maybe then they'd stop chitting in our house.
We know and,
Thank you for the kind words.

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Originally posted by BAGodbehere:
Roger, amazing isn't it. Those of us that have spent some time overseas know very well what we have here at home. I've known since I was ten years old what others will never learn in their lifetime. Just like a puppy, I'd like to take some people overseas and rub their nose in it, maybe then they'd stop chitting in our house.
We know and,
Thank you for the kind words.

Only the crying Indian can save them.