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Right before this challenge started, I posted an image of a garbage dump/land fill, which you can see at the attached link (along with my views). I went back to get some more pics, as I believe it is an important "Social Issue" and MORE people need to be aware of it Here's 1 of them that gets the point across... Joe

Here's the thumb

ahhhhhhhhhhhh... :( yep... a major problem, great reportage shot* :]

damn fine entry, joe! certainly does get the point across, and i'm glad you made me aware of what was happening. i still can't believe this. You know, in rural Kentucky we have a lot of "dumps." People don't want to pay for trash pick-up so they just take their trash to the "dump." I guess i always had the impression that when your trash was picked up by the city, that they did "something" with it other that just pile it up in a dump. duh....don't know why i didn't realize whatever we don't recycle can't go anywhere except into landfills. sigh Makes me wanna call our local trash pickup companies and find out where they take my trash. maybe one day i'll go take a picture....if i can stand the stench. thanks so much for sharing this!

Nah, come on, be honest..... this is an out-take from Hitchcocks The Birds, innit?!? I bet they were making some noise too.... Our local dump is nicely organised.... you drive your car up a ramp, throw your rubbish into a skip which is then loaded up and probably taken somewhere like this... Of course, we have skips for rubbish, skips for garden waste, skips for metal, somewhere to put electrical goods (so the dump-masters can look them over and flog them for spares), skips for paper waste to be recycled, enclosed skips for the clothes for the Salvation Army.... so at least we get the impression the council takes recycling seriously. Personally I used to like the old tip where we used to dump everything over a wooden fence where the pile of rubbish would be ploughed into land-fill - there was no regulations about people keeping out, and rummaging used to be fun. Not sure if our mothers would have agreed had they known, though ;-) (",)

Great reminder! I suppose some folks throw away more stuff than many would ever hope to have. In the Dominican Republic(not unlike similar places) poverty ridden people set-up housekeeping in the dumps. They find in the dumps what is needed to stay alive. Yep, with a county operated and efficient landfill set up, folks around here who don't have garbage pick-up can take the stuff to collection centers. Just a few years ago I saw a woman thow a bag of garbage down a hill...and she was only a mile from the collection center! Many years ago in the Smoky Mountains, a friend of mine saw an "out of state" car go by and a bag of garbage go out the window. Knowing the shortcut down the mountain, he got the garbage and met the woman at a stop sign. "I think you forgot this!", he said while hurling the bag into her backseat! "We don't do that here." Sure, he was only about 18 at the time and brash. He DID make a point I bet.

Seems when I walk out the door with a new product,there is new ones coming in the back door. I keep stuff around a long time.I do think there is too much disposable product now. They fear building or manufacturing a good lasting product will end future sales. The new way I guess. Good social issue, and added to challenge page.

Yep...I too thought of Alfred Hitchcocks..."The Birds"...and I have seen similar Scenes when I wuz a wee Kid...I lived at a...Dump.

That's quite a scene!

the birds give a menacing, nightmarish feel too it suppose it is a nightmare and real too important issue and great shot Flopsy