11 thoughts on “Headline, 2025”

  1. Kinda pretty sure I don’t understand the Manila garbage dump analogy, but that referenced LA Times article via HotAir is just more product from the never-ending mine of white guilt.

  2. jdm, a Manila garbage dump is what you get by failing to properly regulate children who muscle in on the recycling business.

  3. So I have one of those giant recycle bins. You are supposed to throw a bunch of stuff in there — plastic, paper, cardboard, glass.
    I forget what they charge me for it, maybe $10 for two pickups a month.
    There is no way that stuff can be sorted and recycled for that cost. I assume its being sent to a landfill, unsorted, somewhere overseas. You might be able to do that for $10/month.
    The other odd thing is that I’ve never heard of anyone getting dinged for putting the wrong stuff in their recycle bin, yet this must happen all of the time.

  4. MP, “recyclers” get goobernment subsidies so that $10 is gravy – you already paid for the collection with your taxes.

  5. My wife has seen the Manila dump on a couple of occasions. There people are living on – not in – cardboard boxes, used as pallets. They pick through the garbage, looking for something they can resell. Upwardly mobile means having a roof; walls to go with it are an unthinkable luxury.

  6. I concur with Night. Even going back to 1973 while I was in the Air Force, that was happening. Got to serve as an Ass’t Crew Chief on a KC-135 mission to Clark AFB from Okinawa for four days. The base SP told newbies to beware when riding buses through Manila. If you were going to stick you arm out the windows, make sure that your watch was on the other arm. Local miscreants would ride by buses on their motorbikes and snatch them right off your arm. Thought it was bull shit, until I saw it happen five times in two days.

  8. From the referenced article -“Taquerias, corner stores and fondas — small, family-run lunch spots — are being replaced by Pilates studios, co-working spaces and sleek cafes advertising oat-milk
    lattes and avocado toast.”

    Sounds a lot like what the local urbanists are doing to St Paul.

  10. The Mexico City thing astounds me because it’s one of the few cities that make LA air look positively pristine in comparison. I understand wanting a cheaper place to live, but I don’t get sacrificing one’s health to do it.

  11. UMMP wrote: ” I assume its being sent to a landfill, unsorted, somewhere overseas. You might be able to do that for $10/month.”

    My bet is it ends up at the local Rotary Kiln burn facility with all the other trash. The extra $10 fee assures that it is the first daily waste to be incinerated. Ring the bell, out of site out of mind.

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