Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

Waste paper recycling is the process of converting waste papers into various useful forms. We know already paper is made from the pulp of trees. For the making of paper large amount of tress are destroyed as well as huge amount of water is required. So to conserve nature we must reduce wasting of papers and reuse it. After collection the waste papers are sorted according to its quality and type. The waste papers are soaked in water separately to attain the pulp state. Then chemicals are added to remove the ink on the paper to avoid the dull colors. The pulp is then flushed to make it free from ink. After this process raw material are added and pulps are pressed into sheets. Sheets are then dried up and send for secondary uses. Recycling of paper reduces deforestation. It saves our green environment and makes the earth a heavenly place to live.

The Expert answers:

Every ship uses desalination for there drinking and shower water. It is simply salt water boiled and the steam separated then cooled from evaporation into fresh water and treated with the normal chemicals used in every day water consumption. It’s acutually cheap to do and produce. You can do it at home. I was a boilerman and a water tester in the Navy for six years. But just try to get the Government to do something cheap for the people and not receive a lot of revinue from it and you got world war three started.

Sincerely yours,
Fred M. Hunter
fmhguitars@yahoo.com

The Expert answers:

Recycling has to be done, but the problem is that in many communities, WASTE is subsidized, that means it is paid for with hidden taxes.

People should pay for the hauling and disposal of the amount of trash they generate, just as you pay for water and electricity. Wouldn’t it drive you crazy seeing your neighbor changing the water in the pool every other day while everybody is paying the same amount of money for water? In the same token, if someone dumps more, that someone should pay accordingly, because actual resources like trucks, gas, and land space are being spent on taking garbage away from a home.

As I see it, the problem is that garbage is being hidden from people literally and in terms of cost, so there is a negligence in the liberal consumption of disposables and poor waste management. We have huge bins where I live, yet some people dump water bottles with water still inside, and cardboard boxes that have not even been flattened, because they are too lazy to put them in the recycling bin or make a minimal effort to produce less waste.

People like that are pigs and I would not trust they wipe their rear ends when they go to the restroom. The only way these pigs will take notice of their stench is by charging them for what they waste.

Should they be forced? That is not the problem because they are not intellectually capable of understanding reasons. Let them waste but have them pay. I don’t want my money to go subsidize lazyness, ignorance and filth.

The Expert answers:

We have a very small percentage of water on the earth that is suitable for drinking water and the amount is getting smaller. When I think about wasting water, I think about wasting drinking water. The water that goes down your drain can not be consumed by humans until it goes through the natural recycling system, meaning either being absorbed into ground water or evaporated and coming back as precipitation. In many areas, like where I live nature can’t replenish it fast enough, so we are suffering from another drought. We don’t have enough water in the lakes, rivers and underground water supplies to provide all the water for all the people in our area. We have to conserve. That means using less when possible, turning off the water while brushing teeth, or spending less time in the shower, removing lawn or watering less. It is so bad in CA that farmers are being told they will be allotted 25% less water next year which means 25% less food, that will result in higher food costs across the nation.

You may not think this applies to you where you live, but the problem is spreading and getting worse in many areas. This nation has no more water than it did when the first Europeans arrived, In fact is has less fresh water, but we are continuing to grow our population. More homes, more people all mean our water supply has to do more. Many scientist say we will be fighting over fresh water instead of oil or food in the future.

The Expert answers:

Today, recycling, maintaining our sustainability and taking care of our environment is a big thing. While the best method is to reuse our wastes, this often cannot be done. Therefore, the only way to go seems to be to recycle, to use the same materials to make that same product again and again. While this seems to be a great idea, it is not always the case.

I usually carry a water bottle in my bag. I drink bottled water not because I believe it is safer or cleaner than tap water; but rather merely out of convenience. It allows me to have quick access to water when I’m not near a bubbler or a fast-food restaurant. I also refill my water bottle whenever possible. This is reusing waste products, and therefore the best way to sustain our environment. However, water bottles break. When it is broken, I throw it in the rubbish bins provided, NOT the recycling bin. Why?

I think that recycling is somewhat a pointless exercise. It is not totally useless though. I recycle aluminium cans and such. The reason why I recycle aluminium cans and not plastics bottles will be discussed later.

In the New York Times, John Tierney wrote an article called “Recycling is Garbage”. In that article, he declared that “Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America: a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources”. In the article, he points out many things. For instance, packaging saves resources, reducing food spoilage. Fast-food meals generate less trash per person than home-cooked meals. Also, the cheapest way to dispose of garbage is in a landfill.

Recycling, however, costs a lot of money. The time, effort and money spent on picking materials and sorting them out costs more than it would cost to dump it in landfill. Then it would have to be re-processed. Tierney figures that the value of the labour of recycling to be literally hundreds of dollars per ton more.

People might say that landfills are taking too much space. However, it is a common myth. A. Clark Wiseman of Spokane’s Gonzaga University figures that, at the current rate, Americans could put all of the trash generated over the next 1,000 years into a landfill 91 m high and 56 km square or dig a similar-size hole and plant grass on top after it was filled. America has an area of 9,631,418 square km. I doubt they will have trouble finding an area to dump their rubbish. Some people might be worried that this landfill is hazardous and potentially lethal to the environment. An easy solution to this is to shoot off the rubbish into space. All we need to do is provide that much space for rubbish and shoot it off to space once every a thousand years.

People also say that we are going to run out of resources in the near future, they are wrong. Resources on earth are not scarce at all. WorldWatch, a group which has constantly predicted the near future when humans will run out of resources, now acknowledges: “The question of scarcity may never been the most important one”.

People think that recycling paper saves trees. This is wrong. Paper is made from trees which are specifically grown to be chopped down to be turned into paper. It has the same concept as a chicken farm. Australians eat 1 billion chickens every year. And yet, chicken is not an endangered species. This is because we farm chicken. If we are to hunt chickens from the woods and still eat the same amount of chicken, chicken will be extinct in a matter of hours. The same goes for trees. We ‘farm’ trees the same way we farm chickens. Recycling paper doesn’t save trees. As a matter of fact, recycling paper does more harm to the environment than to just make paper freshly from trees. The process of transporting used paper, sorting different types of paper and many other processes involved in recycling paper produces a lot more pollution than just chopping down trees and turning them into paper. The only real way to reduce paper consumption is to read the content of the paper over and over again. A fully-grown oak tree soaks in about 380 L of water a day. That is a lot of water. However, this oak tree does not only consume water, it also eats greenhouse gases and helps purify the air. On the contrary, if everybody stops using paper all of a sudden, we will eventually destroy those trees and use the area for something else. So in fact, throwing away paper saves trees. More paper demand means more trees will be planted and therefore cleaner air.

People also think that we are running out of water. But truthfully, water does not run out. Where would water go? We don’t shoot water off to space. The water that we use is contained inside earth’s gravitational pull. In fact, we have more water than the dinosaurs, since the icecaps are melting. The dinosaurs lived for 115 million years and they didn’t die out because they run out of water. Humans have only been around for 2 mill

The Expert answers:

Chloride has literally nothing to do with water. Your water comes from the water table (probably) and if the shower runs for an hour at lets say 5gpm thats 50 gallons per ten minutes which is a lot. The spent water is an effluent elsewhere and will not replenish the water table, he is adversely affecting the local economy and environment in a larger way than he would think.

The Expert answers:

Waste water i assume? Its called a water reclaim system. It’s usually used in car washes and involves treating the water with ozone and passing it through a series of screens and strainers. I wouldn’t drink it though. The only other way is to run it through a waste water treatment plant, and then a water treatment plant for drinking. You could also just distill it.

The Expert answers:

Industries can recycle their process water or retreat their waste water so that it is easier to purify for drinking water and other purposes. Communities can educate residents about local water resources and work together to implement land use strategies that will protect and sustain water supplies into the future. They can develop plans to handle water shortages without waiting for a water emergency and can help residents dispose of harmful products properly by offering hazardous waste collection days. By behaving responsibly in our use of water.

The Expert answers:

If a stream runs through a pig-farm in Nebraska, then empties into a small lake where it is vaporized into a cloud that eventually flies over Iran and drops as rain into an Iranian water reservoir,…should the Iranians die of thirst rather than drink that water??

If your answer is “Yes!”, Why don’t we have our government subsidize pig-farms along all the streams in Nebraska?