162 points

Grandma hates the environment and wants to make sure no one gets to enjoy it after she’s gone

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78 points

Typical Boomer

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Unironically.

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In the ocean? I like decent grandmas who want their car batteries properly d’esordio of.

Edit: disposed*

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35 points

Yep, car batteries are mostly recyclable.

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15 points

Lead acid batteries have a 99% recycling rate.

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8 points

The youtube videos of the sweatshops in India/Pakistan where they do the recycling are riveting af.

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I thought most grandmas knew that car batteries definitely belong in a beautiful blue ocean, especially ones with little to no car batteries. Is a life without throwing car batteries into the ocean even worth living? If you need someone to talk to, or even just to go throw car batteries into an ocean with HMU.

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7 points

It’s not disposal, it’s d’esordio

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Me too, that’s what the burnbarrel is for. Some people, smh my head

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I just wanted to double check, and holy crap it’s real:

www.leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/05/fact-check-this-oil-disposal-tip-was-in-popular-science-magazine-in-1963-but-it-was-not-a-good-idea-then-and-it’s-not-a-good-idea-now.html

How to fuck up the water table in your surrounding area real fast.

Fun fact, doing this could create a monetary liability far in excess of the value of your home and property.

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Fun fact, doing this could create a monetary liability far in excess of the value of your home and property.

It’s also not going to be particularly healthy drinking if your home has its own well rather than being on city water. Which where I live, is very common for detached homes.

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The fuck has this to do with “science”? How were they this retarded only 60 years ago? I wonder how many really did that.

“Oil comes from the ground, so it must be okay”

“Out of sight, out of mind”

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It’s the same mindset that lead to using dispersants on the oil spilled by deep horizon. It’s not about science, it’s about dealing with a problem that has no easy good solution, so instead of a good solution, just something is done.

Oil companies probably thought that people would be more resistant to buying oil if it needed special effort to dispose of properly. Maybe they didn’t even have a good way of dealing with it at that time and just hadn’t dumped enough of it yet to realize that it would eventually run down into the water table. Though going by how they handled realizing that burning oil at all was going to have a huge effect on climate, they likely wouldn’t have cared even if they did know.

Just like deep horizon wasn’t an environmental problem for BP but a PR one, thus they selected solutions that looked like they were trying, that they shouldn’t be liquidated to fund a real cleanup effort, and that new deep water oil wells were still worth the risk. Think of all the retirees that they are holding hostage because they put money towards funds that bought BP stock and derivatives!

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6 points

Fossil fuel companies knew from the start burning it was bad. They have always known.

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My grandfather used to drizzle his used motor oil along his fence to help control weeds.

I found that sentence as difficult to type as you might hope.

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9 points

My great aunt used to spray gasoil on her potato plants to get rid of pests. I have no idea if it worked, but she had a lot of completely bonkers ideas.

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1 point

I just put it in the fuel tank of my old diesel car.

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53 points

There is only one way to show Grand Ma that you love them. Some light environmental destruction.

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6 points

That’s how we used to do things back then!

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49 points

Lead acid batteries are worth a decent amount of money as scrap, don’t throw them out.

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62 points

Don’t give in to greed. Throw your car battery into the ocean to feed the electric eels

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About $20cad

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Not worth it. Get way more stealing off the church roof instead.

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