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Landfills are so old-school and primitive in this neck of the woods.  Plasti-vacs don't get buried here, they get incinerated!  By law, all trash haulers here are required to take what they collect to a resource reclamation facility where it is sorted to remove things like steel etc, and what remains is turned into fuel pellets which are then sold to power companies, etc.  The power companies then are required to use highly sophisticated filtration equipment to prevent noxious/hazardous compounds from being released into the atmosphere during combustion.  It's a very expensive way to deal with trash, but that's just an added incentive to take advantage of recycling programs and keep as much as possible out of the waste stream. 
 
If i bought a new vacuum i would go to a vac shop and buy a Miele or Riccar and i dont buy bags or belts at any dept. store i go to the vac shop in borger or amarillo
 
Yea. Those isles are sickening aren't they?

I used to love to look at the vac isle's back in the day when I was little. I ignore them now too.

I have my Rainbow and a Lux :) I'm happy.

Every last one of those vacuums (or most of them) will be in a landfill in 2 years, or the back room of some vacuum shop that accepted them as a trade in.
 
Some areas do use the "trash to energy" conversion-Baltimore did this.However-the ash from the furnaces still has to go somewhere-usually goes to a ---landfill.It is often used to cover a landfill "cell" when filled-then dirt put over the ash cover.Most places still use landfills becuase they are low cost-places that use the incinerators don't have the space for landfills.so they are still around-and probably will for some time.so whatever-the plastivacs can end up being crushed,shredded,or burned.What a final life for a vacuum!At least the more expensive and higher quality vacuums may find another home and will continue to be used and enjoyed-esp by us collectors!Be that as it may--whether it feeds a landfill or incinerator-the compaction trash truck is doing the duty.Rear loaders and side loaders seem to have the most visibly "brutal" compactors.FL trash trucks the compaction is hidden-unless someone climbs up on the body roof and films the action-there are some shots of that on the "Classic Refuse Trucks" site.
 
wow you guys have so much choice over thier , we have such poor choice of upright vacuums here, people like cylinder model here( those thier are hundreds of models ) , we have toms of those but uprights , if you take the mainstream , hoover electrolux( you guys call it eureka) dyson lg samsung bissell, sebo thier are only about 17 differant models.
hell electrolux only has one upright model, here its a much smaller market
 

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