Your Questions About Recycling

how is a bathtub recycled??

You put out your cans in the garbage and they get sent to the dump and sorted out of other garbage, but what if you want to get rid of your bathtub? where do you take it and if the garbage trucks take it, where do they take it? what happens to it?
You put out your cans in the garbage and they get sent to the dump and sorted out of other garbage, but what if you want to get rid of your bathtub? where do you take it and if the garbage trucks take it, where do they take it? what happens to it? If you could answer it orr knoww a sourcee, it would help me alooott because I need it for an assignment for tomarow, thannxx alott.

a question about prison.?

i started thinking about something the other night when i was watching spngebob. it was a new episode. spongebob got on the wrong ship, it was a ship that transports prisoners. and when the got there the dude in charge said: it is my duty to deal with the trash that society has thrown away.” and spngebob said “i always prefer to recycle.” and that got me thinking. are prisons meant to change people for the better whn they get out like when you recycle or is it supposed to be like a place that garbage trucks bring all the trash, land fills is what i think they are called. so is prison meant for recycling the criminals or throwing them away for good? if you know what i mean.

I need help for my presentation 2morrow?

I’m a freshman in highschool :; heres what I have to do ::
Your city wishes to develop an effective recycling program similar to the one we have here in Seattle, and would like you to prepare a proposal for getting it done. I have been asked to explain to you what that proposal should include.

1) Landfill costs. Assume that the present cost for delivery of one truckload of garbage to your local landfill is $100.00.
About 80 trashcans can fill up one Waste Management garbage truck based on the approximate dimensions of garbage trucks you have seen and the dimensions of a typical household garbage can. This will give you an estimate of the cost to the city of delivery of one garbage can full of trash. In our experience, each person living in a city produces about ¼ of a garbage can’s worth of garbage each week. With this information and the current population of the city of Detroit, you should he able to estimate what your city’s current landfill costs are.

2)Amount of recyclable garbage generated by typical home. Log the number of non-recyclable garbage bags that are taken out each day. Then at the end of the week, place all recyclable products in the same size garbage bags. Count and record the total number of bags filled with recyclable products. If one third of the garbage is recyclable, then that means only two thirds will go to the landfill. From that, you can calculate the amount of money saved in landfill costs.

3) Value of recyclable materials.
Metal/aluminum cans have an average value of $.75 per pound. Glass or plastic has an average value of $.10 per pound. Paper has an average value of $20.00 per pound. Note: If the recyclable material is not separated in the home, it will cost the city approximately $.03 a pound to have it separated.

4) Based on this information, please calculate how much money would be saved by the city if glass, plastic, metal and paper were recycled instead of sent to a landfill, and whether or not the city should require that such materials be separated in the home prior to being picked up.

5) You will need the support of the people in your household for this program to work, for they must at least be willing to separate out recyclable material from non-recyclable material. You will need to survey all of the people living in household to determine their attitudes toward recycling, and determine what they would be willing to do and what incentives or fines the city could use to encourage compliance with its new recycling program.

i have a question about prison.?

i started thinking about something the other night when i was watching spngebob. it was a new episode. spongebob got on the wrong ship, it was a ship that transports prisoners. and when the got there the dude in charge said: it is my duty to deal with the trash that society has thrown away.” and spngebob said “i always prefer to recycle.” and that got me thinking. are prisons meant to change people for the better whn they get out like when you recycle or is it supposed to be like a place that garbage trucks bring all the trash, land fills is what i think they are called. so is prison meant for recycling the criminals or throwing them away for good? if you know what i mean.

A stranger is putting trash bags on my curb?

I live in a house by a street instead of a neighborhood. Surrounding my house are several apartment complexes. Around trash day someone is putting his recycling bags next to our trash cans on the curb. Sometimes he puts the bags there a day late and they aren’t picked up or sometimes the garbage trucks just don’t pick them up. This problem has now escalated to me receiving a city ordinance stating that if it continues I will no longer have my trash picked up. Since I do not know the person or know where he lives it is a difficult situation.
He also doesn’t put his trash there every week, sometimes every other week or every 4 weeks. I can’t go door to door because of the amount of apartments, and the bags are usually there before I come home.

Picking up litter – neighbours think I’m barmy?

After the council recycling lorry has passed by every Thursday they always leave loads of litter and garbage in the street.

I can’t leave for work until the street is reasonable tidy, I’m a tidy person, so I wander around picking up the plastic bags and cartons the recycling truck leaves behind.

My neighbours think this is funny.

Personally I think the council should be doing this, as we are forced to recycle or we get fined, but they don’t. So I take responsibility for my street.

Am I odd?

What is 340 cubic yards?

If you had 340 cubic yards of trash how much would that look like in layman’s terms…. like could it be equal to 3 garbage truck loads? I’m writing a story on recycling and they told me that they collected 340 cubic yard, but I have no reference to how much that really is so i’m having trouble describing it.. thanks

Help me with my garbage in Taipei!?

Hello, I have just moved to Taiwan from the USA, and I’m totally frustrated with the garbage issue. I live just north of Zhongxiao FuXing, and apparently a truck comes at 7pm certain days of the week to get my trash. I was able to buy bags at the 7-11, but they are wicked small. I bought a pizza with some friends last night and I couldn’t throw it anywhere so now I have a bucket of ants in my apartment. And recycling, what exactly do they let me recycle? I can’t find that anywhere on the http://english.taipei.gov.tw/ site. Please help!

How do you feel about garbage pickers?

Our last week in a marginal part of Long Island, NY, garbage pickers had descended upon our property to sort through 10 years of our stuff. Hey, I have nothing against recycling in that way — we got the wicker porch furniture I’m sitting on now like that a few years ago — but these people are a greedy bunch. One lady wouldn’t take the Atari 2600 I had out there unless I could find the joystick for it. Another one was peeking in our moving truck, asking if he could have some of the stuff we’d loaded. As I was walking out to the truck with our huge tub of loose change, a lady asked me if I were going to throw that out. “Yeah,” I told her. “I love throwing out money.”