[pct-l] Yosemite - a story looking for a problem

[Mike Cunningham]

Very interesting article.

"While energy use and fuel consumption are driving climate change, landfills produce 20 percent of all methane, a potent greenhouse gas that causes 25 times more global warming than carbon dioxide."

I suppose that means we should give up eating dehydrated bean products. ;-)

hm
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On Sat, 7/18/15, Cat McPeek <sagegirl51 at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [pct-l] Yosemite - a story looking for a problem
 To: "Andrea Dinsmore" <andrea at dinsmoreshikerhaven.com>, "Douglas Tow" <douglastow at gmail.com>
 Cc: "PCT-L" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
 Date: Saturday, July 18, 2015, 9:38 PM
 
 Iconic National Parks Move to
 Eliminate Landfill Trash
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/06/150629-zero-landfill-national-parks-yosemite-grand-teton-denali/
 
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 From: "Andrea Dinsmore" <andrea at dinsmoreshikerhaven.com>
 To: "Douglas Tow" <douglastow at gmail.com>
 Cc: "PCT-L" <pct-l at backcountry.net>
 Subject: [pct-l] Yosemite - a story looking for a problem
 Date: Sat, Jul 18, 2015 2:13 PM
 
 To put that in perspective to our place for a hiker
 season........700+
 hikers.....700 resupply boxes... and trash from 700 hikers
 like beer cans
 and bottles....pizza boxes and their other stuff....that's a
 lot of trips
 to the country dump station. Figure average two trips a week
 for 3-4
 months. $25 per trip. Non hiker season...one trip a month.
 Just
 saying.....😇
 
 Andrea
 On Jul 18, 2015 1:59 PM, "Douglas Tow" <douglastow at gmail.com>
 wrote:
 
 > Steady on.
 >
 > In 2014, there were 4,029,416 visitors to
 Yosemite.  If just 5% of those
 > had a pizza, and just 5% of those failed to bus their
 pizza box to the
 > trash, that would still be 10,000 dirty pizza boxes to
 be taken care of by
 > park employees.  Let's photoshop that many boxes
 in one big pile, and write
 > a story about teenagers, or slovenly park visitors, or
 some other arbitrary
 > group.  Perhaps let's not.
 >
 > PCT hikers represent less than 1/20 of 1% of visitors
 to the park, and less
 > than 3% of hikers overnighting in the park.
 >
 > Many, many hikers I come across at passes and road
 crossings have a nice
 > handful of trash left by others (usually proximate to
 roads) that they have
 > picked up.
 >
 > You know what's right.  Leave memorable tips, and
 get on up to Canada...
 >
 > Chipmunk
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