Your Questions About Recycling

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Try the macomb county official website. Macombcountymi.gov

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It is possible to recycle these products. But there is one factor that needs to be considered. Paper is sold and bought by its weight. Because these products are so light the market for them as useful recycled components is not very good. Thats why you don’t see them recycled much. It takes a great deal of weight to make recycling paper goods profitable and these products are just not desirable….at this time.
Good thinking though.

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Actually, that is already being done. I believe between 10-20% of the worlds nuclear energy comes from surplus, or recycled, nuclear stock piles, namely from enriched warheads.

This helps off set the mining costs, as we are currently not mining enough Uranium to fulfill the power needs.

These numbers may be wrong and I don’t feel like searching for them, but I believe we mine around 40,000 tons of Uranium a year and use around 10,000 tons of military Uranium a year for Civilian power.

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There’s this book that they give out for free…it’s called the “phone book,” and if you look in the “yellow pages,” you can find names and addresses! Wow!

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1.Do a system restore applicable to XPVistaWindows7.

Start>all programs>Accessories>system tools>system restore>click on a highlighted date 5 days or older & follow the steps.

2. VistaWindows7

Right-click on your desktop and choose Personalize

Click on the Change Desktop Icons link in the upper left hand corner

In the Desktop Icons Settings window, check the Recycle Bin box and click OK

click apply & then ok

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Metal.

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A very good question.

Yes paper recycling is a net loss for the environment, but it means more trees can be used for wood instead of paper.

Glass is an interesting thing to look at. It’s made from sand and people think sands not going to be in short supply so it must be a net loss. However, the sand is usually dredged from sand bars in the sea.Sand bars act to shelter coastal areas from powerful waves If too much of these sand bars are taken away they can collapse, destroying marine environments and opening up the coastline to erosion. Therefore it makes sense to recycle glass.

Plastic recycling makes sense because the oil it is made of is non-renewable. But it’s not that great for the environment because different types of plastic have to be sorted before they’re recycled, so they ship it off to china (where wages are low)to be sorted.

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The oil sludge has contaminated your sacks thus making your entire sack a hazardous material. The only systems I’m aware of that actually “use” contaminated oil are a specific type of heating system that can burn oil contaminated with an assortment of other materials. In this country, they are most often found in industrial, auto repair, and auto salvage buildings. Some individuals use these systems to heat their home garages and shops; I am more aware of older installations and no new installations. Still these oil burning systems require a fluid to burn; to the best of my knowledge, they do not burn solids.

I can only think of hazardous waste disposal for either eventual containment or incinerator burning.

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Here is the CRV site…http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dor/Pages/Index.aspx …….California Refund Value
Eff Jan 1, 2007, CRV paid to consumers when they recycle containers at recycling centers will increase to 5¢ for each beverage container less than 24 ounces and 10¢ for each container 24 ounces or greater. (use link for more info)…
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