nomygod
@nomygod.eth
sorry but this seems INSANE but my dad was telling me when he was a kid in Chicago they didn't have trash pickup they just had concrete bins that they burned their trash in and then the garbage people would collect the leftover ashes/stuff that didn't burn. like everybody just threw away their trash inside and then lit it on fire and then left ? idk do other countries still do this regularly ? i guess everybody just breathed in burnt trash all the time ?
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Sine
@sinusoidalsnail
Hahah i used to live in a house with an old incinerator built into the basement. Scared the ever living shit out of me just knowing it was there
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The Dude Bartππ³ ββ¨-β¨
@thedude
oh man that's insaaane, I bet it smelled horrible hahaha
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Jawa
@jawa
~ 2% of Americans and 14% of households worldwide still burn their trash https://news.gallup.com/poll/649931/adults-worldwide-live-households-burn-waste.aspx#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20form%20of,and%20open%20burning%20at%2014%25.
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gusanita in the sky w/ diamondz
@gusa
insanely interesting π³ people from the past were /builtdifferent
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Carlos28355.art
@carlos28355
wtf. Never heard of this lol
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Kristina
@kriskris
Back then there was definitely less trash, but itβs still crazy. Especially for such a populated city like Chicago.
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Lee
@neverlee
That looks like a Coalbin..
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Vera Faye
@verafaye
my grandparents had a burn barrel that was way out in the country and it did smell awful. I canβt imagine a city like that.
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catswilleatyou π©π¨
@catswilleatyou
I grew up in the woods and my parents had a βburn barrelβ for trash. Basically all non-recyclable stuff got burned.
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