I wonder who much goes missing directly from their warehouse.
Back in the good (bad?) old days when Coventry made cars, you could, if so inclined, buy whole engines that had somehow managed to find their way out of the manufacturing plant without being noticed.
The packaging may take up a good deal of volume due to air space, but how much actual material is in that plastic box? I suspect that if one were to compress it to a flat object (i.e., flatten, not compress the actual material), it's not all that outrageous.
It may be more costly, but with more built they can eventually engineer some cost out or improve efficiency. At some point we will no longer have the luxury of digging holes and burying trash. Or it will be very costly to ship the trash to holes a long way away. Remember the NYC garbage barge?
The problem is that trash isn't consistent and contains many components that don't burn. There's no way that a trash-fueled plant will _ever_ be cost competitive with a conventional plant.
It will be a very long time before we run out out room for trash dumps. They really are very small in comparison to other land uses. For example how big is the average NFL stadium or MLB park. You could pack a lot of garbage and trash in one. No one complains about a football or baseball stadium. I wonder why that is?
I do agree about the packaging though. I have a hole in my hand from where the knife slipped when I was trying to open a plastic package. It still hurts.
As long as the price paid is high enough. Recycling is the perfect example of There being no such thing as a free lunch. The current economic down turn has pretty much sent the recycling programs to the dump.
And trash contains many toxic elements as well. I read of one proposal that would burn so hot, that little toxicity would remain. The catch?? It would require a lot of fuel to burn up the toxic components. Which may be a way to to take care of toxins, but a lousy way to generate power.
Using it to subsidize the regular mail. Which is a losing propositiion. Most of the mail that is used by the consumer is used to pay bills. And that function is rapidly being taken over by digital bill paying services that is offered by almost all banks now.
Yep.. one of my long-standing "peeves".. Buy a kid a small toy and spend 10 minutes cutting away the packaging...
Buy a part and it comes in a cardboard box with packing material inside to protect a metal part in plastic armor.. What a waste.. Wrap the sucker in yesterdays newspaper and put it in a small box..
When we moved a couple of years ago, I sent about a dozen new, unused "blow molded" tool cases to the recyclers... Does anyone that uses the tools ever put them back in the case, unless they're using them out of the shop?
Take a look at the prices of the ubiquitous 2-1/4 hp router kits with fixed and plunge bases, two collets, wrench(es), maybe even a starter set of 1/4" bits or other accessories, and of course a giant case to hold it all. Then price out just getting a replacement motor, which will cost more. Which just tells you the competition is keeping the margins down on the kits.
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