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Re: Rural and Farm Recycling Questionairre

Andy,

In your rather romantisized picture, you raise an interesting point. Of 
course, an old appliance on a junk pile is a rusted piece of ... junk. It 
is there because noone wants it, or the farmer would have sold it! But 
used appliances, especially refridgerating equipement and junked cars, 
are also sources of toxic waste, and should be properly disposed of. 
Unfortunately, if you have a place to dump stuff, it is tempting to save 
yourself the dumping fees, and some things you can't get landfills to 
take. My neighbor just bulldozed his "precious items" into the creek that 
runs between our properties. Said items included old pesticide drums, and 
copy machine toner bottles (this is a real modern farmer).

And by the way, the useful stuff doesn't go on the juck heap, it gets 
saved in the barn. 

apatterson@vax2.rainis.net (A Steamer Andy) wrote:

>You have never been around farms have you. Farmers have been recycling
>sence the beginning. Farmers never through away anything useful or
>that might be used later. You can always find a scrap heap somewhere
>around a farm. There you will find all sorts of things: old farm
>equipment, house aplinciences, cars, anything metal. These junk piles
>are fought over by hairs. Why would a farmer give any of his precious
>items to someone else when he might have use for it himself.
>
>


-- 
Karen Stark
ks36@cornell.edu

"A life can be said to be decadent when it loses its grasp on the 
innermost nerve of its functioning, when it is disrupted at its inmost 
core so that while thinking itself full it is actually draining and 
laming itself with every step and act. A society can be said to be 
decadent if it so functions as to encourage a decadent life, a life 
addicted to what is inhuman by its very nature."

Jan Patocka, "Heretical Essays in the Philosphy of History"
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