So if you found yourself in the position where if you weren't cleaning up other people's mess then the environment would be damaged, and you weren't being paid, you would keep doing it?
If so, why aren't you putting yourself in to that position right now? And assuming you do start, at what point does it become specifically your obligation such that you think you should get sued if you stop doing it?
It became their obligation when they signed a contract taking responsibility of cleaning the river.
If they wanted or needed to relinquish this responsibility they should of utilized the court system, arbitration, or sold off through bankruptcy the obligation.
Differs from country to country I think. And even in some of those countries where grave leases are indefinite, they are eventually going to have to face the fact that as the population of earth grows there will be less and less available space for new graves, and at some point they will likely have to change the rules to allow for grave reuse even in a lot of places that currently have graves last “forever”.
> A grave can be used for a new burial when at least 20 years have passed since the last burial and the articles of association for the burial site do not stipulate a longer protection period.
> Urns can still be put in a coffin grave even if the protection period according to the first paragraph has not expired.
> When a burial site is closed, it must be protected for at least 40 years after the last burial.
From https://lovdata.no/lov/1996-06-07-32/§8 and translated using Google Translate with additional manual correction of one word that Google Translate misinterpreted.
In a eastern european country the grave is leased for 7 years. After this period if you don't extend the lease, it will be leased to somebody else. You can burry anybody there but i think that there is a period of time before you can burry the next one.
