California Is Suing Walmart Over Alleged Improper Disposal of E-Waste and Other Hazardous Materials (theverge.com) 16
Last week, the California attorney general and 12 state officials filed a lawsuit against Walmart, saying it allegedly illegally disposed of electronic and hazardous waste, compromising local landfills. The Verge reports: California Attorney General Rob Bonta alleges in a statement the company violated state environmental laws with their practices, and the waste included materials like lithium and alkaline batteries, insect killer sprays, aerosol cans, LED lightbulbs, and more. State investigators conducted 58 inspections across 13 counties from 2015 to 2021 and said they found classified hazardous and medical waste in each store's trash compactors, as well as customer information that should have been rendered indecipherable. The California DOJ estimates that Walmart's unlawfully disposed waste totals 159,600 pounds or more than 1 million items each year.
State investigators conducted 58 inspections across 13 counties from 2015 to 2021 and said they found classified hazardous and medical waste in each store's trash compactors, as well as customer information that should have been rendered indecipherable. The California DOJ estimates that Walmart's unlawfully disposed waste totals 159,600 pounds or more than 1 million items each year. Hargrove said that the compactor waste audits "conducted or overseen by the California attorney general have shown that the compactor waste contain at most 0.4% of items of potential concern," comparing it to the 3 percent statewide average. In 2010, Walmart reached a $25 million settlement with the state of California for illegally disposing of hazardous waste. They also paid $1.25 million to Missouri in 2012 for a similar incident and pleaded guilty in 2013 for negligently discharging a pollutant into drains in 16 counties in California.
State investigators conducted 58 inspections across 13 counties from 2015 to 2021 and said they found classified hazardous and medical waste in each store's trash compactors, as well as customer information that should have been rendered indecipherable. The California DOJ estimates that Walmart's unlawfully disposed waste totals 159,600 pounds or more than 1 million items each year. Hargrove said that the compactor waste audits "conducted or overseen by the California attorney general have shown that the compactor waste contain at most 0.4% of items of potential concern," comparing it to the 3 percent statewide average. In 2010, Walmart reached a $25 million settlement with the state of California for illegally disposing of hazardous waste. They also paid $1.25 million to Missouri in 2012 for a similar incident and pleaded guilty in 2013 for negligently discharging a pollutant into drains in 16 counties in California.
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This is the end result of capitalism. Profit is over everything. In socialist states the production is controlled by the State and the environment is part of the consideration.
When you say "environment", I'm assuming you're also referring to the tens of millions of dead citizens that lay at the feet of the murderous dictators that have represented the "best" of 20th Century socialism, right?
I mean after all, the Irrelevant Fodder Class is 100% organic and bio-degradable.
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Ah yes; the millions dead and executed Sweden and Norway. Of course. Oh, you meant the dead people in Pinochet's Socialist Republic of Chile ... oh hold on there's something wrong with my memory of that name. That's right, it was the right wing Military Dictatorship of Chile [wikipedia.org] as set up n part by the CIA.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of problematic "left wing" 20th century regimes like in Venezuela, Russia and China just as there were plenty of problematic right wing ones like in Chile, Argentina, Ugan
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...A rejection of democracy similar to the one ongoing in some sections of US society recently. On the left typically Communism of some form and on the right Fascism or nationalism. If that's what you meant you should name it as such.
I did name it accurately.
Deadly.
All the other names, are lame marketing fodder that are as believable as a PT Barnum sales pitch, and the only thing that is common across all of them on all sides is the Disease of Greed. That has infected the human race so badly, that we will likely die right here on this rock, forever addicted to it. Doesn't really matter what -ism you speak of. Some are simply sold to Mass Ignorance, far easier.
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Sweden is a Parliamentary Democracy, not Socialist.
https://www.government.se/how-... [government.se]
Norway Is a Parliamentary Representative Democratic Constitutional Monarchy, not Socialist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
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That is their form of governing system. Both have had socialist governments and indulge in many socialist policies.
The Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] looks like a good place for you to start.
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FYI, Sweden is an open market economy...AKA...capitalist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Norway is a mixed economy, so half and half.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Neither is socialist.
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FYI, Sweden is an open market economy...AKA...capitalist [..] Norway is a mixed economy, so half and half [..] Neither is socialist.
I gave you a link about the Nordic model to start learning and didn't read it did you? Socialism is quite a broad category and this quote from the Wikipeida socialism page [slashdot.org] may give you a hint to why, despite the fact you are partly right both countries clearly counted as socialist for much of the 20th century.
Specifically, capitalism is part of the market form of socialism. Arguably Sweden has moved somewhat from it's socialist forms of the mi
They're suing them again?!?!??! (Score:4, Funny)
So California is suing Walmart again [slashdot.org]??!?!?
It's a pity they can't sue /. for wasting resources by over duplication.
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Their Defense (Score:5, Funny)
It's a pity they can't sue /. for wasting resources by over duplication.
From /.'s PoV they are recycling.
Yo Dawg (Score:2)
So not only are we duplicating the article, we are vast tracts of text within the duplicated article. Why the hell are we still here?
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So not only are we duplicating the article, we are vast tracts of text within the duplicated article. Why the hell are we still here?
Where would you suggest we go? The entire internet is becoming a cess pit of e-personality disorders where people's attention span is less than the time it takes to read this comment.