Originally Posted by
t00nces2
The website looks nice, but one thing in the first paragraph raised a question for me. Okay. This is probably going to be considered the stupidest question and you will probably send the Hawaiian mafia to lei may ass out, but.... Why don't you just dump the trash in one of the lava tubes that is not active at this time and just let the lava turn the waste into a new paradigm, Earth + plastic and electronics?
If you don't know the Earth + plastic reference, enjoy...
There are so many things wrong with dumping it in the lava tube haha. First is cost: The Big Island (where the lava is) is home to only about 18.5% of the entire population. This means that the trash for the other 800,000 or so of us needs to be shipped there. Not worth it.
Second is the environment: The toxins from burning all that plastic in the lava would wreak all kinds of havoc.
Lastly, it'd be a cultural and political disaster: Lava (and volcanoes) are extremely sacred in Hawaiian culture. Volcanoes and lava are the embodiment of the Goddess of Fire Pele and any politician who even suggests burning the trash in the lava wouldn't see another election.
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