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Rather than have people risk their lives picking up
garbage on the roadside, UBCo have designed a
system of drop-in conveyors that can be retrofitted
to the gutters along freeways.
They are backed by a fence, to prevent cans, old
boots, strips of truck tyres, bits of wooden pallet,
broken
headlights and bottles making it into the
roadside green strips, by directing them onto the
conveyor belt.
Once a day the belts can be turned on and run for
a few minutes, delivering the road detritus into
pre-positioned skips (dumpsters) under the end of
each conveyor, so it can all be collected and
processed later at a recycling station.
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My first thought was, "Bicyclists and hitch-hikers beware". |
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My second thought was, "I wonder how they recycle unfortunate hitch-hikers." I think there's probably a Soylent Green joke in there. |
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"Soylent Green is roadkill !" ? |
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Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. There's good eating on a
porcupine, once two or three semi trucks have tenderized
it. |
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I don't see much roadkill on the freeways I drive. I do,
however, see a lot of common refuse that's been thrown
from vehicles. In any case, roadkill is not really any more
or less disgusting than household waste that's been in a
black plastic bin in the summer sun for a week. |
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I must admit to never having been tempted to eat
anything I saw dead on the roadside, including ducks,
crows, pigs, kangaroos, sheep, possums, foxes and
snakes. |
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//people risk their lives// |
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We make our inmates do it! |
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You have prisoners supervised while picking up roadside
garbage? Isn't that simply an enticement to attempt to
escape? |
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Prisoners start their visit in "A" ward and through out
their years move to "F". "C" is the kitchen, "D" is
janitorial and "F" is for those about to be released,
and of good behavior. One guard goes out with 20
inmates; mostly to keep them from smoking butts. |
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That's the thing that's always bothered me about the
possibility of going to prison... someone wanting to
smoke butts. I can understand why the prison authorities
want to crack down on it. |
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would you believe, I was sent there for fighting |
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Did you get your butt smoked while you were in? |
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Whether I did or didn't my answer would be the
same, "No, gosh wadaya think urgh..." (napolean
dynamite) |
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I never mentioned convicts. |
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I did so without any conviction. |
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I believe Rentisham's Flenting Wax is in demand at the
Large Rodent Collider, as superconducting cheese has
become quite scarce, as helium supplies have dwindled. |
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