{"id":3720,"date":"2009-03-17T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:06:50","slug":"pollution-is-so-bad-on-mt-everest-that-you-get-paid-for-bringing-down-your-garbage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3720","title":{"rendered":"Pollution is so bad on Mt. Everest that you get paid for bringing down your garbage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On Everest, $ for Trash<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/outside-blog.away.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/on-everest-get-paid-to-poop.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Outside Blog: Archives<\/font><\/a>&#0160;<\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>In an effort to get visitors to Everest to take more responsibility for the waste generated on the mountain, Eco Everest is paying expeditions about $1.00 per pound of waste removed from the mountain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockandice.com\/inthemag.php?id=294&amp;type=onlinenews\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Cash for Trash\"><font color=\"#0066cc\">according to Rock and Ice Magazine<\/font><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Another problem is the amount of human waste on the mountain. There are no porta &#8211; potties on the high Himalayan mountains&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whennaturecalls.com\/products\/wilderness-pouch.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">RESTOP Products &#8211; Wilderness Waste Containment Pouch &#8211; Personal Portable Sanitation System<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These systems are also in vogue in the Western United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Everest, $ for Trash Outside Blog: Archives&#0160; In an effort to get visitors to Everest to take more responsibility for the waste generated on the mountain, Eco Everest is paying expeditions about $1.00 per pound of waste removed from the mountain, according to Rock and Ice Magazine. Another problem is the amount of human [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9167,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/9167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}