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Kenny
2006 · Film · 99 min
Directed by Clayton Jacobson
From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Kenny tackles every septic challenge that comes his way, culminating in a visit to the International Pumper and Cleaner Expo in Nashville Tennessee - or as Kenny affectionately calls it, "Poo HQ".
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Sure, but if anybody can truck refuse and clean sewers but only one person will actually do it, that's not really a monopoly by Kenny the toilet cleaner*, that's more like a caste system with "the unclean" over there.
I'd also point out that the US has a large land area, mapped out by the USGS (below ground structures) and is capable of creating a large shallow lake area sealed off from deeper aquifers and able to be treated with neutralising agents.
On the scale of the market for global battery production the additional costs for doing it right are not punitive and arguably fall under the "national security" umbrella that see magnitude larger shovelfuls of money going to defence and traditional fossil fuel industries.
* https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/13140-kenny
I sat next to a guy who is "kenny" (the film about the portaloo entrepreneur) and he was flying into Shenzhen to have some new plastic portaloo parts made. By coincidence I met him coming back too. Dream run: they provided concierge, translation and hosting services and were really keen to prove quality and appropriate certification marks. They want to deliver top product.
I had another friend doing brew-tanks. Same story. The real deal, if you can find it, will invest time and energy to get you to the product you want at world-class level.
I don't doubt its a sick sad world out there, and scary at times but with some basic human decency and a realistic budget, manufacturing in China wants to talk to you.
If you want to cut corners, or shave price to the bone, I am sure you will find people who are going to shave quality and compliance to match. If you can price ahead of the floor, you can find really good, entrepreneurial people to deal with.
The brewtank guy wound up in delay because of new Chinese pollution compliance checks. Don't assume everything coming out of china is toxic lead, they are also trying to get on top of bad supply chain behaviour.
I watched the film Oddball with my son, it was actually pretty awesome. It's got Alan Tudyk, and the guy who played Kenny (Shane Jacobson), which is a guy who has a passion for portable dunnies (key movie quote "There's a smell in here that will outlast religion") [1].
Watch them both if you want to understand Aussie culture :-)
1. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0822389/quotes