Airplanes in the sea?

This just caught my eye at the BBC website:

"The life span of most commercial aeroplanes is said to be around 30 years; and so, just as there was a 1970s explosion in aircraft production, now there's a big jump in the number of planes beyond use.

What's to be done with them? Aircraft contain toxic materials, so dumping them at a far-off airfield or throwing them in the sea is clearly unacceptable. But that's just what has been happening, according to Bill Glover, Boeing's director of environmental performance for commercial aeroplanes."

Pretty sickening, eh? Out of sight, out of mind. Send it to the ocean, send it underground, or send it into space. As long as its out of our hair at this very moment. And we wonder why our planet is having so many environmental health troubles...

I imagine that the only reason that we don't hear more about trash being shot into space is because of the few visionaries out there who know that space is our only remaining way out, once we have consumed the Earth to the point of non-livability. Either that, or the cost to shoot trash into space isn't cheap enough yet.

Fortunately, the same article goes on to say that they (the airplane maufacturers) are learning new ways to recycle carbon fibre, which is definitely a good thing, since that is what most newer airplanes are made out of (as oppposed to the obviously recyclable metals of the past).

Realistically, it is sickening but we're all guilty of trashing this earth in some way or another. Even if you're not helping to dump toxic nuclear waste into the ground in New Mexico, you're helping to fill nasty landfills with tons of non-biodegradables every day. We're all guilty, and it is depressing.

So why did I mention it? I don't know.

I'm listening to the Cure right now, so maybe I was just subconsciously yearning for some sort of depressing subject matter to discuss...