Los Angeles, San Francisco and others say carmaker improperly labelled materials like antifreeze and sent it to the wrong landfills
This is so incredibly dumb. I urge everyone who reads this to do something. I urge you to ask your employer what waste management companies they use and how do they separate waste streams. You will shocked Pikachu face to know that most people are fucking clueless. The people who manage the vendors are usually so bad at doing this that it’s almost funny. EH&S people are so good at saving face and posturing on how well they operate but if you press them on it they usually don’t know.
So no I’m not even remotely concerned about what Tesla is getting fined for because it happens to all the big companies.
I am kind of curious. If you are a waste management vendor, and you have a job in sales or client acquisitions… Should your job almost to be a watchdog and narc. Your job is compliance, and your client prospect pool includes those not doing it …
I will be honest, a lot of these vendors are lazy. They will see a certain waste that’s not supposed to be there and they will just categorize it as something else. They have simple tests like pH tests and as long as you get in that pH anything is game. They don’t care what’s in it. It’s kind of wild.
The way some people get around this is if you go out of range for their tests, they will just solidify the material and call it solid waste. This goes as a separate stream but it can be highly concentrated and more toxic than normal. This might go straight to the landfill with everything else. As long as it’s not in your waste stream it’s out of sight out of mind.
Interesting. So is Tesla fucking up so bad that they don’t even have vendors that know how to hide the fucked up job they do? Or do they have vendor’s that may also be to blame?
I would imagine it was either a whistleblower or someone from a regulation agency came by and noticed. Tesla management found out, said “oopsie”, rubbed their hands and followed with “we can grow through this experience”. These companies have a budget for fuck ups.
At one point of my life, I helped audit/ book keep for a fortune100 and boy do people not care. I have seen some places rack up hundreds of thousands of dollars in bills because they had only 1 person managing that. They paid their bills through a personal credit card so they can get the points from their bank. Really illegal stuff. They got fired for sure but I’m just saying it happens.
I would very much like to be surprised by this. Sadly, I know the person in charge at my company. He has an IQ of 80 and gets words confused sometimes, and seems to have trouble with parts of speech, such as ensuring each phrase has at least a noun and either a verb or adjective. He thinks anything interesting to him is part of his job, so he watches a lot of YouTube videos. He’s new. I’m not sure how he made it through the interview. Nepotism? Only applicant?
He probably got there because you might have an IQ of 60 LMAO 😂
I’m jk
He probably has a giant dick
Tesla cars use antifreeze? Hmm… today I learned.
Supercharging or DC fast charging causes the batteries to get very hot. Coolant is used to regular the temperature. It can also help
herheat the battery up when it’s too cold.Thanks for the info (!)
Why is a part of the state suing something instead of prosecuting? Is this some kind of Americanism I’m not free enough to understand?
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