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There is no efficient way to sort garbage from recycling until it reaches the recycling center. Most recycling centers now have elaborate machinery that identifies and separates out each of the recyclable materials from the garbage. Some lower tech recycling centers still use human sorting before using the machinery, but these typically do not handle any garbage. Many companies found that the difference in recycling capabilities causes enough confusion that people frequently attempt to recycle materials that their area does not cover. To add to the confusion, companies that once recycled colorized glass or cardboard, no longer do or used to recycle 1’s and 2’s now only recycle 1’s, etc…It started to make more sense to just treat all recycling as garbage and invest in a complex sorting machine that uses industrial processes to separate recycling materials from garbage while beginning the reduction process for the garbage before transport to the dump for incineration, storage or burial. It is still worth separating the recyclables however, since bagged garbage is treated immediately as non recyclable material and is not processed in the same way.

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The basic principles of waste management are reduce, reuse, and recycle. Once we accomplish these, environmental conditions will greatly improve.

You can start at home. Practice these principles and encourage your neighbors to do so.

Segregation of wastes are also important in waste management. Here in my city, the garbage collectors collect biodegradable and non-biodegradable wastes on certain days of the week. If you do not segregate your wastes, they will not pick it up unless you sort them out yourself. You will have to wait for the next collection day. It is sort of telling you that “your garbage is your responsibility”.

Hope this helps!

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Waste managment term is a broad term can apply on managment of many different kind of wastes it may be liquid or may be solid. Managment often employ following techniques
1. Reduction
2. Reuse
3. Recycle

its also called 3Rs appraoch. Reduction producing less waste it may be through treatment, using less resources, incineration etc.

Reuse mean using the things for other purposes without changing its form.

Recycle means total remakeover. Mean paper recycling etc.

There are other appraoches too like lanfilling, composting, using waste for energy etc.

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Waste management/recycling and related industries are the new future industries. In Brazil the industry is booming and making instant millionaires. The low level recycling and infrastructure management is producing sustainable energy to homes and factories. Nuclear power is very risky because of accidents, and countries are unlikely to use their own lands for safe dumping.

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Movement and deposition of waste is a geographical issue because it is moved from a source point to a collecting point to a final resting location for disposal.

Waste is moved around between cities, counties, states and sometimes countries. Transportation systems including: trucks, trains are ships are utilized to move waste which contribute to more waste and pollution.

We are a wasteful society and need to recycle more packaging and container products in order to reduce waste in landfills. If we can reduce waste and wasteful packaging perhaps we can reduce the movement and transportation of this waste which caused the problem first.

See the links below for additional information. Hope this helps.

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Recycling
reduction of waste
reuse

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In solid waste management a primary health benefit is the control of vermin that spread disease. By consolidating residential and some types of commercial wastes, then using appropriate disposal technology habitat is reduced, or nearly eliminated, for rodents and insects that otherwise pose a public health risk. Another health benefit is the control of disposal methods that prevent indiscriminate burning or burial methods that could pose long term and acute health risks.

Also solid waste management allows for recycling that reduces the amount of solids for disposal. The environmental benefits of recycling are self evident.

Industrial waste management is meant to control all waste streams, solid and liquid, that can pose a risk to public health and the environment. Examples of where there was no industrial waste management are the various brown fields and toxic waste dumps through out all industrialized nations. Unfortunately, even with regulations for industrial waste management, many industries spurred by profits, ignore the need to responsibly dispose of their waste.

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Waste management is the sorting, recycling and proper disposal of waste. A study even said that proper waste management can control greenhouse gas emissions.

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“The Zero Waste Management (ZWM) extends the principles of recycling to form a circular system where as much of the original material as possible is reused. Discarded materials are not seen as garbage in need of disposal but as valuable resources in need of new application.”

“Chemist Paul Palmer, who was the first to use the term in the mid-1970s, says that zero waste depends on the redesigning of industrial, commercial, and consumer goods. While recycling contents itself with attempting to deal with goods after they have become waste materials.”

“Dr. Metodio Palaypay, a former professor of the UP College of Medicine and resident at the UP Diliman Health Service, is a pioneer of waste management in the country and member of the National Solid Waste Management Commission. ZWM, according to Dr. Palaypay, is essentially embodied in Republic Act No. 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act. RA 9003 sets guidelines and targets for solid waste avoidance and volume reduction through source reduction and waste minimization measures, including composting, recycling, re-use, recovery, and green charcoal process before collection, treatment, and disposal in appropriate and environmentally sound solid waste management facilities. It mandates local government units (LGUs) to set up an ecology center in every barangay and segregation of wastes. Moreover, it specifically prohibits open burning and open dumpsites.”

“To fast-track the implementation of RA 9003, the Department of Environmental and Natural Resources (DENR), the National Solid Waste Management Commission (NSWMC), and the Earth Day Network Philippines Inc. Teamed up with various environmentalist groups and non-government organizations to launch the “Zero Basura Olympics: A Race to Conquer Garbage in 300 Days”. ”

“The environmentalist groups who are working with the DENR and NSWMC are currently doing the rounds to conduct seminars on ZWM. Last August 28, for instance, the Zero Waste Recycling Movement of the Philippines sponsored a lecture at the UP Integrated School. According to Prof. Armando Basug, aside from waste segregation in the offices and classrooms, the UPIS also operates an organic farm to support the school’s zero waste management program.”

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Some plastics cannot be mixed together. The numbering system is used to identify them. See the link below…

You might be surprised to know that much of the plastic collected for recycling ends up in landfills anyway.

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“We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder’s death. Even though we have issued over 420 million SSNs so far, and we assign about 5 and one-half million new numbers a year, the current numbering system will provide us with enough new numbers for several generations into the future with no changes in the numbering system.”

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Hope these work for you

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Your plan probalably won’t work, because by “new customer” they usually mean someone who hasn’t had an account with them in the last year.

And numbers get recycled after 6 to 12 months.

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“Recycled” phone numbers are used all the time.

There are only so many available numbers in an area. Each area code has a meaning and there are only so many possible licensed numbers. When a person moves, changes a number, etc. That number opens up and WILL be used for new customers.

So “how common” is it? It is an everyday thing. It is normal operating procedure.

I had a line that used to belong to a pool hall. THAT was a pain in the @$$. I was getting phone calls asking if the kitchen was open at 1AM and stupid stuff like that.

So I solved my problem by keeping my old number everywhere I go. I haven’t changed it in almost 10 years.

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Phone companies recycle phone numbers all of the time. You are not guaranteed a new phone number when you activate your phone. If you are receiving harassing phone calls from people who are trying to contact the person who previously owned that phone number, you can tell your provider and they have to give you a new phone number for free.

When you get a new phone through a provider like AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and Sprint request a brand new phone number. If you are using a prepaid phone, they do not have to give you a brand new phone number and generally will give you a recycled phone number.

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Hi iceicle

Yes, they do, if they didn’t they’d eventually run out of numbers.

Also they collect some memorable numbers that they can sell as premium numbers e.g. The numbers that are like 07775 778 779. When they do expire though you can get them re-activated if no one else has taken the number before then.

There are over 40 MILLION unused phones in the UK, with sim cards in most. These are just left for dead so they have to expire at some point. If you think about it there wouldn’t be a phone recycling business otherwise.

Surveys state that only 10% of people have actually recycled their phone through ebay, gumtree or mazumamobile-like stores.

Hope this helps.

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It’s her. It takes 6 months for a mobile number to cease and a whole two years after inactivity before its recycled.

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No Brandon. There are 999,999,999 possible combinations. That’s about 3 times as many as there are people in the US. But lots of them are used for businesses, trusts, estates, etc.. (They have the same number of digits, just a dash in a different place.) Also, there are some numbers they don’t assign (like 000-00-0000)Each state was originally assigned some 3-digit numbers for the first 3 and businesses were also assigned some prefixes. They have already run out of numbers in some places. That’s why they have been assigning the remaining numbers randomly. Soon they will run out completely.

They say President Obama is using the SS # of some person who died decades ago. Probably it wasn’t assigned to him though, unless there was some mistake.

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Take your cans here: Ben’s recycling. (760) 967-0575 You can call them first and confirm they recycle cans

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Yeah, you can make a couple sheckles off recycling cans. You could also make money from helping out neighbors with chores (this is especially popular with the old people, they can’t do easy things by themselves and you’ll come out of it with some interesting stories and money). Also, mowing lawns, shoveling snow and babysitting. If you think some of these jobs are only for one gender or the other, don’t, money is money.

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I am guessing from your question that Texas does not have a returnable bottle law. In my state people pay a 5 cent deposit on all nondairy beverage containers when they buy a soda, juice or beer. The empty bottles and cans can be brought to a redemption center where you get the deposit back. This law went into effect about 30 years ago to reduce the amount of litter along the roads and has been very successful at accomplishing that. When I go to New Hampshire where there is not a similar law the difference is very noticeable.

Paper can be sold for recycling to paper mills. You would need to find a buyer or broker and learn how they want it sorted. They will probably want newsprint, cardboard and office paper all separated and baled. The price of paper is very low because the demand for paper is down. As more people get their news and do their shopping on line the demand for newsprint and catalogs has dropped.

Plastic is so low in value that it is not profitable for an individual to recycle. The town I live in pays more to truck plastic to the recycler than what the recycler pays for the plastic. We continue to do it because it is less expensive than the tipping fees at the landfill. Glass falls into the same category as far as the economics of recycling are concerned.

Metals are where the average person can make money recycling. I don’t know the current prices but the highest price metals are copper, aluminum and lead. Steel, tin and iron are less valuable. Look in the yellow pages under scrap metals and you will find several companies that buy scrap metal. A couple phone calls should get all your questions answered. Ask about plastic, glass and paper at the same time. Some companies handle more than just metal. The scrap markets in Dallas will be different than here in Maine.

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If the marketing focus was on encouraging people to buy products made from recycled materials then there would be a demand for recycled materials and one would receive money for recycling but that is not the case. When you ask most people on how to encourage recycling, they think of putting more recycling bins out, they think that recycling is a matter of collecting and sorting the recyclables. This greenwashing has resulted in a business model where people pay a monthly subscription to have the recyclables picked up resulting in a glut of recyclables such that they don’t even want some recyclables. Recovering money through the sale of the recyclables is secondary to these recycling companies so if they cannot sell them at a certain price, they dump them in landfills so the current push to recycling has only resulted in neatly sorted trash in the landfills.

So long as people think that having recycling bins and curbside recycling is environmentally friendly which it is not, you will only make money recycling plastic by charging people for the pickup of the plastic and tossing them into the landfill when the market is glutted. If people realize that you can only encourage recycling by buying products made from recycled materials then there will be money to be made. Until then, people are just pushing on a rope thinking they are doing some good for the environment.

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Recycle aluminum cans….

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Here are the top 5 biggest reasons to recycle your empty inkjet cartridges.

First of all, each cartridge that is recycled saves almost 3 pounds of natural resources associated with the production of a new cartridge.

Second, each inkjet cartridge that is recycled also saves an average of 3.5 ounces of oil. With the worldwide demand for oil on the rise and supplies shrinking, a little effort can make a significant impact over time.

The third reason you should recycle or reuse your empty inkjet cartridges is to reduce the strain on local landfills. An inkjet cartridge does not biodegrade in a landfill, as other waste will over time. Once a cartridge is discarded, it will be there for several hundred years.

It is estimated that over 300 million printer cartridges are disposed of in landfills annually. That creates 75,000 tons of waste each year, which is equal in weight to more than 30,500 African Elephants!

The forth reason is that recycled and remanufactured inkjet cartridges save money. Recycling your empty cartridges provides empty cores to cartridge remanufacturing companies that, in turn, professionally refill and sell to users at a discounted price. Consumers will see the same reliability, performance and quality as using an original brand OEM cartridge but at a lower cost.

Finally, recycling ink cartridges is fast and easy. Many companies that sell remanufactured cartridges either at the retail level or online also have a recycling program.

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1.Of course,paper can be recycled for money.
2.You can search the Internet where the nearest reclamation depot is.

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How to Make the Most Money Recycling Bottles & Cans
How to article – how to make the most money recycling bottles & cans. When you recycle at a center that takes all of your bottles & cans in bulk, the chances…www.ehow.com/how_4434641_money-recycling-bottles-cans.html – 89k

How to Make Money Recycling | eHow.com
How to article – how to make money recycling. Recycling is rapidly becoming a profitable business, allowing you to make money at in addition to keeping Earth clean…www.ehow.com/how_2163911_make-money-recycling.html – 99k

Aluminum Can Recycling
Aluminum Cans Recycling. Consideration of Balers / Recycling Equipment for Aluminum … ( 15 million barrels of oil is how much gas the United States consumes in …www.wastecare.com/Articles/Aluminum_Cans_Recycling.htm – Cached

Make Money Recycling Aluminum Cans
To recycle as much of it as we can just makes common sense. Why? … Make pretty good money from collecting old soda pop and beer cans for recycling. …ezinearticles.com/?Make-Money-Recycling-Aluminum-Cans&id=2277148 – 54k – Cached

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Recycling center. Hope that helps.

It all depends on where you are in the country. Some grocery stores take cans/bottles etc.

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What recycle bin?

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Vista or XP?
In Vista
1. Go to Control Panel,
2. Open Personalisation,
3. In the Tasks list on the top left select Desktop Icon settings
4. Tick the box and the Recycle bin will be replaced on the desktop.
Did you click delete instead of empty? You are not alone I do this all the time, you select delete to dump the stuff in the bin then open the bin and there is an option to delete there also, you click it and oops the Recycle bin icon is gone!

In XP the simple solution is to turn on the Show Desktop Icons feature:
Right-click the desktop.
Point to Arrange Icons By.
Click Show Desktop Icons.

In XP there is much more difficult option and requires you to edit the registry, only do this if you are confident in what you are doing, editing the registry can have severe consequences if you get it wrong or delete things you should leave alone.
To edit the registry to make the Recycle Bin icon reappear on the desktop, follow these steps:
1.Click Start, and then click Run.
2.In the box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3.In the Registry Editor find the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace
4.Right-click the registry key found in step 3, point to New, and then click Key.
5.Type {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}, press ENTER.
6.Click the new {645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E} key that you created in number 5.
7.In the right pane, double-click the (Default) entry.
8.In the Edit String dialogue box, type Recycle Bin in the Value data box, and then click OK.
9.Quit Registry Editor.
The Recycle Bin should return to the desktop

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The most likely reason is that you accidentally deleted the icon (not the recycle bin itself) from your desktop. Try this to put it back there.

For Vista (and maybe W7):

1.Right-click on the desktop and select Personalize.
2.Click the Change Desktop Icons entry in the left pane.
3.Check the Recycle Bin checkbox.
4.Click OK.

That should do it for Vista. With Windows XP:

There may be a more direct way, but here’s the only one I know of:

1.Download and install a freebie from Microsoft called TweakUI (see below for the URL). Install it on the desktop. It happens to be a nice tool, by the way.
2.Run it.
3.Click the Desktop entry on the left.
4.On the right, a series of check boxes for desktop icons should appear. The Recycle Bin should be one of them. Click it.
5.Click OK.

That should do it for XP.

Hope that helps.

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Do Right & Fear No Man!

If you stop watching porn.., you don’t have to think about Recycle Bin… The real problem is not recycle bin.., its PORN…

You have lot of other stuff online…

Anyway, if you cant stop watching the porn, then its up to you.. Even then, you don’t have to afraid of your friends… Its your computer, you are paying for the Internet, ITS YOUR LIFE!!!

Technically, I suggest you to use “Shift + Delete” instead of “Delete” so that the deleted files wont go to Recycle Bin and will be deleted completely… They cant be recovered unless someone use a powerful Data Recovery Software/method…

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1) open recycle bin
2) on right you will find emprty recycle bin
if it doen’t work
then delete the file seperately
else reboot your computer and try it again reboot
pl choose me as the best answer
please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you
rgds
hardik

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One has to admit that we have all deleted the recycle bin in Windows Vista at one time or another. Usually we have been in such a hurry to empty the recycle bin that, instead of Right clicking and selecting the ’empty recycle bin’ option, we have, inadvertently, selected the Delete option instead.

After the deed has been done there is a few seconds of shock horror followed, usually, by a few unprintable expletives and then panic instills as we wonder how on Earth we are going to replace the deleted recycle bin icon.

Panic won’t solve the problem, but these simple steps will.

1/ Right click on your desktop and, from the drop down menu, Click on the Personalize option.

2/ When the Personalize window opens, Look in the left hand task pane and Click on the Change Desktop Icons link.

3/ The desktop Icon Setting window will now open.

4/ Under the section marked Desktop Icons you will see a list of Icons that can be placed on the desktop.

5/ One of those Icons listed in this section will be Recycle Bin.

6/ Place a Check Mark in the box to the Left of the Recycle Bin option and then Press OK.

7/ The recycle Bin should now be sitting once more on your desktop.

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The problem here is that the recycle bin still uses hard drive space. When you try to move a song back to iTunes the song is duplicated (one in iTunes and one in recycle bin). You’re going to have to start off small. Move only a couple songs or albums at a time and then delete them from the recycle bin as you go. Do this until you can move more and more.

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The ‘Delete’ option when right-clicking the Recycle Bin is new, giving you the option of removing the shortcut from your desktop easily. To restore it you can go Start->Control Panel->Appearance and Personalization->Personalization and then click “change desktop icons” from the left-hand column. From there just check Recycle Bin and click OK.

As for other thing appearing and disappearing, are you using some kind of registry cleaner or optimizer? Some of these things can cause a lot of problems if it flags and removes critical system files

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Right-click on your desktop and select Personalize. In the left side of the window, select “Change desktop icons.” Check Recycle Bin. Click Apply>>OK. Your Recycle Bin icon will return!

It should show when it contains items or is empty. If it doesn’t, right-click the desktop and select Personalize. Click “Change desktop icons.” Select “Recycle Bin (full) and click Restore Default. Do the same again for “Recycle Bin (empty). Click Apply>>OK.

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Spending Green
Support eco-friendly companies by buying products made from recycled material – this could be anything from pencils and paper to wallets and clothing!

Compost the Most
Ask your parents or your school to start a compost. All your biodegradable food garbage – like egg shells and banana peels – will soon turn to soil that is great for planting.

Buy Rechargeable Batteries
Batteries are filled with toxic materials that are terrible for the environment, so go green by buying batteries that you can recharge. There are also special companies that will collect your old batteries and recycle them safely.

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It is the technology used for recycling. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
It takes waste, and uses it for something useful to somebody. Http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AqK32In3rTEi43vFvo3Y6zmRHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20130429104225AA9n3vb
If done right, there might be an energy savings from not having to produce virgin materials. Http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AiAfxkH_UMUv_bfYFj2NiOaQHQx.;_ylv=3?qid=20130428151701AAvYhwV
Imagine making your own natural gas from your own organic waste instead of buying it from the utility company, http://www.mdpub.com/gasifier/index.html
or using garbage to make an add on to your house instead of buying building materials from the store. Http://www.motherearthnews.com/nature-and-environment/used-building-materials.aspx#axzz2RUIdCBwg
If you do that economically, you have relieved pressure on companies to drill for gas, and log for lumber. You can cut your use of natural gas further by using a wood burning stove, and powering it with your cut up dried yard waste. Http://www.stovesandfires.com/Products/Period_Stoves/Country_Franklin_Period_Multifuel_Stoves.asp
Any waste that is too yucky to put into your franklin stove can be turned into organic fertilizer. [4]
There is no reason to send a bunch of glass bottles to be melted down when you could just refill them yourself, and save the energy involved in melting and reforming glass. Http://www.popularmechanics.com/home/how-to-plans/4324487#
Rather than throw away paper, you can make useful stuff with it. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papier-m%C3%A2ch%C3%A9
Also, you can do your part to convert forest to farmland by not composting the bugs and spiders you kill around the house, but integrating them directly into your diet instead. [1]
Instead of landfilling old rags, you can make useful quilts from them with watching television. [2]
Although I do not recommend that you try this at home, there is a movement to industrially recycle spend nuclear fuel into a particularly unstable type of nuclear fuel known as “MOX” in order to make a waste product that can economically be used to make nuclear weapons. [3]

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Paper is one of the easiest materials to recycle. Paper is collected from our kerbside or recycling banks by local authorities and waste management companies.

Once the paper is collected it is then:

* Sorted, graded and delivered to a paper mill.
* Once at the paper mill it is added to water and then turned into pulp.
* The paper is then screened, cleaned and de-inked through a number of processes until it is suitable for papermaking.
* It is then ready to be made into new paper products such as newsprint, cardboard, packaging, tissue and office items.

It can take just seven days for a newspaper to go through the recycling process and be transformed into recycled newsprint which is used to make the majority of Britain’s national daily newspapers.

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The recycled paper is usually used for newspapers, paper, tissue boxes, magazines and heaps of other stuff.

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Bantay kalikasan Pare… Good Topic so other people will know..

IRI Philippines, Inc. Is the first company in the Philippines specializing in solid waste recycling and reclamation services…. Plus they pay you..$$$
Since 2001, the company has been servicing the waste disposal requirements of the country’s semiconductor and electronics industries. In 2004, IRI has realized its vision of becoming a fully-integrated waste recycling company. Now a total environmental company, it offers its clients:

the most competitive prices for waste materials

professional and highly-trained personnel

state-of-the art machinery and equipment

complete servicing hauling to metal extraction/treatment
tight security for the protection of proprietary information in the materials

ideal location

environmentally-safe processes with complete pollution control infrastructure

Yes!!!… Let’s Help the environment , salamat… Safe disposal of toxic waste.

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Yes, batteries can be recycled. They can be dropped off at some city waste management companies and at Radio Shack stores.

I don’t have the answers about what happens after. You could try to find that info out at the link I posted below.

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One of the recycling company is called the Recycling Bank that I always use for recycling my old items. Another company is called the Recycling Point Dot Com, which does the same as Recycling Bank. You can also look at a list of recycling centres/ company in Singapore by visiting the following website: http://www.buysingapore.com/biztype/edirectory/9/698/Recycling_Of_Metal_Waste_And_Scrap.html

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I’ve never worked for them, but looking at their website, it seems to me that they are professional.

Their website is well done, professional produced, and speaks of quality.

Their equipment, at least the equipment that is in the photos on their site, is new and well maintained.

As a general rule of thumb, a company that takes care of its equipment will also take care of its people. Usually, It is an underlying philosophy of the onwer.

I wish yuo well in your new job.

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Access and ease are often the first improvements most recycling programs can take on. Beyond that, is capability; as in the capability to increase the types of materials recycled.

The ultimate nirvana in being ecologically minded in terms of waste streams is to eliminate them (ok let’s try for significantly reduce them) in the first place. Next to that is to reduce both landfill and recycling streams through the Re-use, Re-purposing, or Complete-use of those materials already within produced and/or owned. The ideal result of this reduction is to be left with waste that is contaminate free. There is an old saying: “One man’s waste is the next man’s treasure.” It pretty much summarizes the required theme for successful recycling: The materials collected must be usable in some way. On a mass scale such as a community wide recycling effort, the costs for recycling cannot be prohibitive and, more often than not must be cheaper than the alternative of land filling the recycled/collected items. The ideal would be that all of the landfill garbage stream could be recycled and each type sold at a profit for the community; this is certainly not a reality in today’s world.

To honestly address your question however, we would need to know more about what your current personal and community recycling habits and efforts before we can tell you how to improve upon them….Before there was freecycle.org, many communities had industry backed efforts to redistribute commercially generated chemical waste to others within the community and/or learning institutions. This “waste” may or may not have been a business process resultant or, simply a left over quantity of chemicals that would else wise have to be disposed of as hazardous waste. Cleaning chemicals, paints, gardening/pest control chemicals, and “chemistry shelf” chemicals were among the items. Often, they were listed on a computer in a spread sheet or data base format. From there, many communities found that they were disposing of quite a quantity of construction debris and similar types of listings and/or data bases were begun for the re-distribution of construction debris. Both were basically a freecycle.org type of board for the re-distribution of still usable, commercial materials although, not necessarily for free. A number of communities require a refundable deposit for specific types of disposable containers, prohibit some sorts of disposable containers, or require that businesses who sell specific types of items accept for free the return for recycling the same used items/materials for recycle. (Personally, I think we could reduce the amount of packaging, particularly plastic bubble packages, if we required each and every store to accept the used packaging. Imagine the amount of choking that just Wal-Mart, Target, Safeway, and Kroger would do if one of the states ruled that they had to accept back every piece of plastic packaging returned from their customers. My guess is that we would be moving to less packaging and more readily recyclable packaging country wide; the lobbying efforts against it could even help to boost a poorer state’s whole economy for the duration of the campaign!)

Since then, many communities have actively encouraged the development of companies and/or industries that can handle large scale collection and then Re-use or Re-purposing of what would else wise be landfill waste or, recycled waste that would have to be shipped out of area. Much of this is done through the re-zoning or permitting the collection of and recycling/re-use/re-purposing activities on a space of land, the direction of folks to these locations when getting rid of certain types of materials, the refusal to accept certain types of materials within their landfill systems, the contracting of solid waste disposal to these companies of specific types of materials, allowing the use of the resultant product within their jurisdiction, the promoting of the resultant product, and/or the requirement of use of the resultant product. For example, many communities prohibit the tossing of compostable yard waste in their landfill garbage stream while enabling and contracting for a separate yard waste collection system, permitting huge chipping and composting facilities, requiring the use of the resultant material on government properties, and enabling the sale of additional product within the community. Sometimes, this is accompanied by a number of tax breaks, benefits, and even the provision of in-kind goods, services, facilities, equipment, and/or loans. Other communities have spent a reasonable amount of “tax payer dollars” when building new facilities and/or retro-fitting existing facilities to enable the use of what would else wise be waste such as methane and/or sanitary composting of solid waste from sewage treatment facilities.

Between the current grass roots emphasis on “being green” and the economic realities on both the house hold and commun

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I recycle not because I am terrified but because I can, why should we just keep taking from the earth when we have the ability to reuse??
Its cheaper, safer and could possibly help us all in the future.

When you recycle you are helping other companies to buy recycled products paper plastic ect and cut their costs which come round and make the item cheaper to buy.
It just makes sense to use what we have instead of wasting it in a dump where it can not help anyone.

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Want the down low on the recycling symbols found on the bottom of plastic food and beverage containers?

Here are a few good facts to remember:
1. Plastics are typically classified by one of seven recycling codes, indicating the type of resin used (the code is usually found at the bottom of containers and bottles), as follows:
#1 polyethylene terephthalate (PET or PETE)
Products: Soft drink bottles, medicine containers
#2 high density polyethylene (HDPE)
Products: Toys, bottles for milk, water, detergent, shampoo, motor oil
#3 polyvinyl chloride (V or PVC)
Products: Pipe, meat wrap, cooking oil bottles
#4 low density polyethylene (LDPE)
Products: Wrapping films, grocery bags
#5 polypropylene (PP)
Products: Syrup bottles, yogurt tubs, diapers
#6 polystyrene (PS)
Products: Coffee cups, clam-shell take-out containers
#7 other (usually polycarbonate)
Products: Medical storage containers, some Nalgene water bottles

2. The safer plastics for storing food and drinks are #2HDPE, #4LDPE, and #5PP.

3. Plastics that are accepted for recycling in your area are also good choices. But, don’t store food or drink in #1 PETE even though it is one of the most commonly recycled types. There are no containers designed for re-use made from PETE, and one should never re-use single-use #1 plastic bottles because their design doesn’t lend itself to proper cleaning and the bottles can harbor bacterial growth.

There are, however, a number of reusable containers made from another commonly recycled plastic, #2 HDPE. And number #4 LDPE and #5PP plastics, although not as widely recycled, are also good choices since, as with #2, most research has not shown leaching of any carcinogens or endocrine disruptors. Some bread and frozen food bags and squeezable bottles are made out of #4 plastic and some ketchup bottles and yogurt and margarine tubs are manufactured from #5 plastic.

4. Risky plastics that you don’t want to use for storing food and drinks are #3 PVC, #6 PS, and #7 Other (Usually Polycarbonate).

Sometimes found in clear food packaging, #3 PVC, the second most commonly used plastic in the world, is a toxic plastic dangerous both to our health and to the environment. Its manufacture and incineration releases dioxins, a potent carcinogen and hormone disruptor. Vinyl chloride, the primary building block of PVC, is a known human carcinogen that also poses a threat to workers during manufacture.

In contact with foods, especially hot, fatty foods, PVC can also leach chemicals such as adipates and phthalates, which have been shown to cause birth defects and damage to the liver, kidneys, lungs and reproductive systems in mice. In addition, most community recycling programs do not accept PVC, so the vast majority of vinyl ends up in landfills or incinerators. While many companies have agreed to restrict or phase out PVC, we still have a long way to go before this “toxic” plastic is banned from use.

Polystyrene, #6 PS, is usually found in foam containers and cups and sometimes in clear disposable takeout containers, plastic cutlery and cups. It’s best to avoid this plastic because PS may leach styrene into food it comes in contact with. Styrene, considered a possible human carcinogen by IARC, may also disrupt hormones or affect reproduction.

Polycarbonate (marked as #7), usually found in baby bottles, 5-gallon water bottles and the epoxy lining in food cans can leach BPA into liquids and foods. A study conducted at Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Japan, concluded that polycarbonate bottles containing hot liquids leach more BPA than new bottles.

Since 95 percent of all baby bottles currently on the market are made of polycarbonate, parents have a right to be concerned. The National Environmental Trust recommends switching to polycarbonate-free baby bottles, like those manufactured from glass or from #5 PP.

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The recycling symbol has three chasing arrows. Each arrow represents one step in the three step process that completes the recycling loop.

1. The first step is collection. This is when you put your recyclables into your curbside recycling bin or take them to a local drop-off center. The collected materials are then prepared to be marketed and are sold to a manufacturing facility.

2. The manufacturing process is the second arrow in the recycling symbol. The recyclable materials are converted into new products and shipped to stores across the country to be placed on shelves as new consumer goods.

3. The third arrow is where you, the consumer, purchase products made with recycled content. When you “Buy Recycled,” you complete the recycling loop.

🙂

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The recycling symbol is Unicode character 2672, but it doesn’t appear in very many fonts so it is unlikely to show up on Facebook. See http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2672/index.htm for more details.

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Do you mean Registered? ®
Ascii doesn’t have a recycle symbol sorry but I ƒound this site with alot of characers/symbols you might want to use 🙂
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Http://lefebure.com/webtools/ascii.asp

Because they are html codes they won’t match on your keyboard. ƒor example Alt + 3 (KeyPad) will give you ‘?’
whereas not so with the html equivalents.

Copy & Pas†e or experiment with Alt + Random Number keys 😉

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Http://www.wasteconnect.co.uk/symbols.asp

I think you will find the information you need on the above website.

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I’ve been working on educating myself about the symbols and numbers. Check out the following links:

http://www.earthodyssey.com/symbols.html
http://www.obviously.com/recycle/guides/common.html

Some things are easily recyclable; some aren’t depending on what they are made of.

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Recycling centers might take cereal boxes as “mixed waste paper” but many cereal boxes are not made of the usual corrugated stuff as other boxes that do have the recycling symbol. It’s actually chipboard or paperboard, and these do not have nearly the same recycling value as corrugated cardboard does.

So technically, it is recyclable, but as recycling centers are businesses, most aren’t going to bother recycling it because the demand for recycled chipboard is so low.

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Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recycling_symbol.svg maybe its a trick question. The symbol for recycling seems to be a generic symbol for all recycling.

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If in doubt, recycle. The recycling center sorts these anyway.

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I do recycle but I don’t do it for extra cashhh.

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I don’t think you can get much for paper. Paper is very expensive to recycle. Not to mention all the pollution the factories cause on the Earth, it more eco friendly to trash paper then to recycle it.

Pretty much everything is cheaper to make from scratch then to recycle. The only commonly used material that is profitable to recycle is aluminium, you can get decent money from it.

And here is where I will preach that people need to look at the hard facts and judge for them self whether they think recycling is really beneficial to the planet and worth the amounts of financial aid it receives from our tax dollars. Putting waste in a landfill is not harmful, unless it is harmful material like nuclear waste. But most recyclable material is not harmful to the earth to be buried to decay. It’s it the natural coarse of things. And almost like the planet’s way of recycling if you think about it. Nor are we running out of landfill space. And landfills, when filled typically are turned into beautiful parks that do not smell and have trees and other plants planted on them (eco friendly). We are not running out of trees either, as when we cut down trees we plant more. Paper and wood is a hot seller and thus business take much care to make sure we have enough trees so they don’t run out.

Not to mention all the trees that are located in areas that are protected from being cut down.

Also there is no evidence that shows we are the cause of global warming. We don’t know why it is getting warmer. Also Global Warming is not some huge threat or cry for help from our planet. Not long ago the planet was slowly getting cooler over time. Throughout history the Earth as gone through stanges of getting warmer for a while then getting cooler for a while. Kind of like an up and down roller coaster. Slowly raising and falling.

And even if Global Warming were different to the normal raise and fall of temperature, if is not a real threat as it would take MILLIONS of years to see dangerous effects of it.

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In Canada, you receive about 10 cents for cans and pop bottles. Large glass milk jugs cash in at about 25 cents.

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If you are referring to aluminum, glass and paper, you would go to a recycling center that buys such scrap. But you would have to take in hundreds of pounds for them to even let you through the door.

If you are referring to bottles and other items with a recycling deposit, usually the stores that sell them have to take them back and refund the deposit. That’s the point of the system.

If you are referring to stuff you cleaned out of the attic or garage, a second hand or thrift store that sells that type of item would be the place to go.

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Look up scrap yards or metal recycling in the yellow pages. The one in Mansfield, OH pays 70 cents a pound.

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The machine needs to be able to read the barcode on the can,the can could be mashed,but if the barcode is readable by a laser,it will work.(the machines just crush the can anyway).and,as far as I know,the machine don`t give cash,not in MA anyway.you get a coupon out of the machine,then you can bring it in to the store for redemption.

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Try Round Bottom Recycling off Round Bottom Rd in Milford. Their phone number is 248-335. They were paying 75c a pound for cans a couple of weeks ago.

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Go to a recycling center, build a time machine, set it to 1982. Then you are free to turn in your empty SURGE! And WHAMMY JUICE! Cans for 15 cents a can. You might be able to save up enough for Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers or a Subscription to Nintendo Power Magazine!

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I don’t think you can.They only pay cash for alum cans.

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Your tank will still be cycled. The bacteria responsible for cycling attach to the substrate and the filter media, so as long as you’re only removing water, you don’t have to worry about that aspect. But your puffers may look a little bloated until all the worms digest.

The puffers may have been swimming near the surface because that’s where the more oxygenated water is after the filter is off for some time – the oxygen is absorbed into the water from the surface, and the filter circulates the oxygenated water throughout the tank.

Really, if you feed the bloodworms correctly, you should have only needed to use a gravel vacuum (or even some air tubing so you remove less water and can target the worms more directly) to remove the extra. Instead of risking dropping in an entire cube, thaw them in a small container of water and strain them through a fine-meshed net (brine shrimp net). Then you can pick as many as you want from the net and put the rest in a small amount of water and refrigerate until the next day (be sure to label the container as “fish food”). This keeps all the organic material from the worms which causes the red/brown discoloration (and adds excess nutrients to the tank that the puffers can’t use) from getting in the tank in the first place, so it doesn’t contribute to the ammonia and nitrite being formed.

Since puffers are sensitive to ammonia and nitrite, another tip I’ll give you is not to change the filter media as often as you’re told by the instructions. It may clog, but you can put the media in a clean container with some old tank water (removed during a water change) or new dechlorinated water and squeeze it out a few times. This will clean the places where there’s debris trapped, but you won’t harm the bacteria as you would if you rinsed the media under tapwater with chlorine. This leaves more of the bacteria in the tank where it can keep on removing the ammonia and nitrite by convertiing it to nitrate.

Just be sure you have around 5 gallons per puffer in your tank, and only one male. These guys are territorial.

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YOUR local rubbish tip should have an area/bin put aside for things like those items
hope that this helps,
and keep up the good work with your re-cycling

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Nitrogen is constantly being recycled in the nitrogen cycle. Here is how:

1. The atmosphere contains about 78% nitrogen gas, N2. This is very unreactive so it can’t be used directly by plants or animals.
2. Nitrogen is needed for making proteins for growth, so living organisms have to get it somehow.
3. Plants get their nitrogen from soil, so nitrogen in the air has to be turned into nitrogen compounds before plants can use it. Animals can only get proteins by eating plants or other animals.
4. Decomposers break down proteins in rotting plants and animals, and urea in animal waste, into ammonia. So the nitrogen in these organisms is recycled.
5. Nitrogen fixation is the process of turning N2 from the air into nitrogen compounds in the soil which plants can use. There are two main ways this happens:
a) Lightning- there’s so much energy in a bolt of lightning that it’s enough to make nitrogen react with oxygen in the air to give nitrates.
B) Nitrogen-fixing bacteria in roots and soil.
6) There are four different types of bacteria involved in the nitrogen cycle:
a) Decomposers- decompose proteins and urea and turn them into ammonia.
B) Nitrifying bacteria- turn ammonia in decaying matter into nitrates.
C) Nitrogen-fixing bacteria- turn atmospheric N2 into nitrogen compounds plants can use.
D) Denitrifying bacteria- turn nitrates back into N2 gas. This is of no benefit to living organisms.

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There is no ATP cycle, but ATP can be recycled.
ATP is adenosine and 3 organic phospates. When the three phospahtes are bonded together, they are ATP so energy is stored in the bonds. When a phoshate group breaks off, energy is released and ATP becomes ADP. To turn it back to ATP, ADP is phosphorylated, meaning a phosphate group is added to it. The energy is stored in the bonds again

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It depends on how you reprocess the fuel. Fast reactors can be what is on a closed fuel cycle. That what breeder reactors do… They usually make fuel for themselves.

But you can take the fuel from a PWR (pressurized water reactor) or a BWR (boiling water reactor) and reprocess it as a mixed (U and Pu) oxide fuel or MOX for short. MOX fuel can be used in PWR, BWR, and fast reactors.

A lot of countries are pushing efforts on fast reactors that can also be fueled by other lanthanides and actinides like Np, Am, Cm, Ea,…. Look up the ORIENT fuel cycle or the DOVITA program. I suggest you Google it. DOVITA stuff is a little tricky to find b/c it is just a set of guide lines putting together other technologies to make a fuel cycle for fast reactors to run on actinides.

Some of these fission products spontaneously fission or grab up neutrons in PWRs or BWRs or thermal reactors by making them fun less efficient. If these advanced fuel cycles are used, then we can reduce spent fuel waste to the lighter isotopes like Sr-90, Cs-137,… This will decrease storage time form a thousands to millions of years to only 300 years.

It is possible we just need to do more R&D to implement it on a large scale. An some of these newer reactors need better materials.

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“There are three main types of rocks: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic. Each of these types of rocks are formed in different ways and each type of rock can be changed into each of the other types of rock. Geologists call this process the Rock Cycle. Essentially the rock cycle is the process that makes and recycles rocks.”

http://kidsgeo.com/geology-for-kids/0025B-rock-cycle.php

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Nutrient Recycling, in a simple layman’s term, is known as waste management. A lot of natural “waste” is often full of nutrients which can be converted to nutrients via recycling.

A primitive example, perhaps, is the use of manure as natural fertilizer in an ecological manner. Think of a cycle which starts with Animal waste or manure, used as fertilizer. This becomes nutrient for plants and crops, which become nutrients for live stocks, which turn into meat, poultry, eggs, etc, which turn into nutrients for human beings. The cycle continues with how we treat the human waste later on, etc.

Same can we said of the way we recycle our water.

These are simple explanations for Nutrient Recycling. However, there are many other more complicated and scientific forms too.

One such example is the use of human waste in space. Astronauts on long missions, or those living and working in the Space lab, can recycle their body waste to produce potable water for use in bathrooms.

Today we are cleaning up lakes by introducing living algae, which can purify the water and live on recycled dead plankton cells. There are many such examples of this process in our homes and outside of our homes. Some are very simple and natural, others require a more intricate human involvement.

I hope the above gives you a small glimpse into the wonderful world of nutrient recycling.

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Nitrogen is constantly being recycled in the nitrogen cycle. Here is how:

1. The atmosphere contains about 78% nitrogen gas, N2. This is very unreactive so it can’t be used directly by plants or animals.
2. Nitrogen is needed for making proteins for growth, so living organisms have to get it somehow.
3. Plants get their nitrogen from soil, so nitrogen in the air has to be turned into nitrogen compounds before plants can use it. Animals can only get proteins by eating plants or other animals.
4. Decomposers break down proteins in rotting plants and animals, and urea in animal waste, into ammonia. So the nitrogen in these organisms is recycled.
5. Nitrogen fixation is the process of turning N2 from the air into nitrogen compounds in the soil which plants can use. There are two main ways this happens:
a) Lightning- there’s so much energy in a bolt of lightning that it’s enough to make nitrogen react with oxygen in the air to give nitrates.

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We recycle because, while things that we use WILL recycle themselves, their cycle takes so long that it’s almost not like it’s ever done..
You can’t look at one item that is recycled and make such a general statement. If the items being recycled can be useful again, and, thereby, cut down on the amount of raw materials that must be used to make NEW things, then, recycling is a very good way to go.

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5.no if you explain him the reasons
6.dont rely on them try fixing it urself like me i help recycle and i am trying to
make something that shrinks the polution and nuclear wate. So far i am still
researching.
7.no one is reliable they could sell it to the terorrist. Because everyone wants money.
You could thrust a rich friend or rich family member. Cause u know them and they already have money
8.no the waste cannot stay underneath it is verry dangerous cause nuclear waste can break thorugh soil and interupt the earth core. Which will destroy us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So dont u dare try puttiong nuclear waste underground.
9.thats actually a good idea storing it on the north. But i wonder the partilcles of nuclear can be frozen. Sory dude my parents are coming i cant answer anymore. Sorry but i hope the answer are usefull. If it is not well im only 13 yrs old

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Your right, I get hayfever at times and if they told me to keep the immune system up from now on…I woulda told em to fcuk off.

Also, have you told them what you have just told us?

Search for a new job from now on while you’re still working there.

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Your sentiment is a good one. You really need to drop all of the unnecessary punctuation (…!!) but need to add punctuation in some places (We’re) Drop the unnecessary caps that are not in the beginning of the sentence. You should really dig a little deeper for what is the most important actions for our world, other than throwing old food into a heap in the back yard, and recycling, even though those are good things to do. It just doesn’t seem like they’d be the most important of all.
Keep writing poetry, you are off to a good start.

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I agree it’s a basic good idea just impractical. I know that locally they encourage recycling. But soda& beer can are all that are actually recycled. I have friend that is a disabled Veteran, he is a security guard at one of the land fills. The recycle pick up trucks dump every thing but cans. I save my very few soda can about a dozen a months for a local church member that comes by and gets them. We have a plastic bucket with drain holes on the back porch where we put them. I add the ones people toss in front of the house.

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Make it more specific or you’ll end up picking up rubbish and gluing it to a poster board.

There must be a message which you could portray in your art. Maybe a type of rubbish people do not know can be recycled and you could prepare by photographing the route of the rubbish from bin to recycling place to new object.

Western England…contact Viridor waste management. They are a national recycling and waste control company and can surely help with some inspiration.

You could do art about oil. Plastics can be recycled, and are made from oil. Oil is a fossil fuel running out and damaging our world with bad emmissions. Plastic takes years and years to rot away underground and produces bad emissions when it does. Recycling plastic saves emissions being produced.

You could promote the recycling of a particular item that causes alot of damage to the world such as plastic bags.

Make up a catchy slogan for your poster too to help promote the message

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Ask S.C.O.R.E an organization with the small Business administration that can give you all the information you need for free on how to trade with china. Fill out a request for counceling at www.scoremiami.org tell them what you are interested in and they will get the right person to email you or call you they may not be in your area for this type of job.
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contact
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214-747-1311
I got Hal from scoremiami.org when I requested information on import/export and he will email you all kinds of free information.
Score is a free service to all people thru the SBA.
Good Luck!!!

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I understand his position, and I am certainly frustrated by the junk mail that I receive in my mailbox, however, there are appropriate channels and behavior that is expected in a democratic society when you opopose the status quo. If he had a problem with delivering “junk mail,” then a possible start to changing the system would be to contact a legislator or engage in talks with the Postmaster in a civilized manner. I don’t think that I want any one individual to take it upon himself or herself to be the judge on what mail should and shouldn’t be delivered.

Haililng him as a hero would set a bad precedent for other postal carriers who had similar ideas. We need to have assurance that the mail that is addressed to us is delivered to us. Imagine wondering if your postal carrier had a problem with a particular organization you were involved in and decided to not deliver your mail from that organization.

No, there has to be protocol and everyone who works for the USPS must follow that protocol whether they agree or not.

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An Electronic Waste Recycling Fee is a fee imposed by government on new purchases of electronic products. The fees are used to pay for the future recycling of these products, as many contain hazardous materials.
The Electronic Waste Recycling Fee is a fee imposed by the government of the state of California in the United States on new purchases of electronic products with viewable screens. It is one of the key elements of the Electronic Waste Recycling Act. Retailers submit the collected fees to the Board of Equalization. Retailers may pay the fee on behalf of the consumer, however the retailer must remit the same amount to the State and indicate the amount on the consumer receipt. Retailers may retain 3% of the collected fees in order to recoup costs of collection. The fees collected reimburse a number of recycling centers, who in turn offer free recycling of e-waste to consumers and businesses. The statutory recycling fees are adjusted every one to two years by the state on or before August 1 of the year. Sellers and manufacturers are subject to civil fines for failing to collect and remit the fee.
Fees are collected for the following CEDs (Covered Electronic Devices):
Televisions that contain cathode ray tubes, liquid crystal displays, or plasma screens.
Computer monitors that contain cathode ray tubes or use liquid crystal displays.
Laptop computers and Portable DVD players with liquid crystal displays.
“Bare” cathode ray tubes or any other product that contains a cathode ray tube.

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Yes there is
Danny’s Recycling Center
One Stop Recyclable Solutions
Paper , Metal , Plastic , E-Waste
dannyrecycling.com
1745 Walsh Ave, Santa Clara, CA

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Http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/United_States_Recycling_Statistics

http://www.environment-green.com/More_Recycling_Facts_and_Statistics.html

This can’t be individualized. It has to come from how your city collects garbage. Lots of other countries do this–you separate all your garbage a certain way, including recyclables, or they don’t collect it at all.

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Here are the important stats (recycling isn’t the issue):

CO2 is 30% higher than it has been for 650,000 years. Methane is 130% greater. These are two of the main pollutants humans put into the atmosphere in excess, and they are two of the primary greenhouse gases.

Look at the ‘hockeystick’, which shows a dramatic warming since 1950 after a fairly stable climate for 1000 years. In fact, the 10 hottest years in recorded history have all happened since 1990, with 2005 being the hottest.
(see links below)

How’s that for proof of man’s fault in this? There is ample proof, any real scientist will tell you that.

There has NEVER been an article doubting man’s influence on global warming published in a peer-reviewed journal. A recent study of almost 1000 proved that.

Yes, the earth naturally heats and cools, but the rate and amount we are warming now is unprecedented in the recent geologic past. We are doing this, and we must stop it. This is not some political statement or rhetoric. This is science trying to educate a crass, ignorant public of the damage they are doing. The magnitude of temperature increase ALREADY is about 10x that of the ‘little ice age’ of the middle ages, and rate and amount are only going up.

Just to be clear, glacial and interglacial cycles are mainly controlled by astronomical fluctuations, but we have a detailed record of the last 7 cycles, and what the climate and CO2 is doing now is way different and extreme. The rate of increase is much higher than in the past AND the value itself is much higher.

HI CO2:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4467420.stm
HOCKEY STICK:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5109188.stm
General climate stuff:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3897061.stm

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Statistics are hard to come by. Many Asian countries don’t produce any statistics at all. Of the countries that do produce statistics, they’re often incompatible with each other. For example, one country may publish figures saying it recycles 40,000 tons of metal per year whereas another may give a figure of 40% of all waste metal is recycled. Some countries only include domestic waste, some include commercial waste; some include imported or exported waste whereas others don’t.

Published figures generally relate only to waste that’s recycled through official channels. In this respect it could be possible to claim that half of all waste is recycles. In reality however, if most waste is dumped in unofficial sites or simply discarded wherever it happens to be (as is often the case), then the true figure will be much lower.

In percentage terms of specific items then Japan leads the way with over 90% of glass being recycled, over 80% of metal, over 80% of organic material, two-thirds of paper and card products and a half of all plastics. Percentage figures for Hong Kong are comparable.

In terms of tonnage then China leads the way, but only because it has such a large population. As a percentage of all waste the amount recycled is somewhere around the 20% mark.

From the information available, then the highest proportion of all waste that gets recycled can be found in South Korea where just over 50% of all waste, from all sources, is being recycled.

According to the United Nations the countries with the lowest recycling rates in Asia are Pakistan and Yemen. I couldn’t find the actual figures and no sources were given so I can’t say how this conclusion was arrived at.

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Four-hundred words is about five paragraphs long, so you could use the five-paragraph essay method to give your essay structure. Your paragraphs will only need to be around six sentences long, so it’ll be easy.

Before anything else, narrow down your topic. How do you feel about recycling? Probably that it’s important? Make your topic “Recycling is important” and then make a list of reasons why it’s important. A pretty easy topic.

How to Write a Five-paragraph Essay
1. Your Introductory Paragraph
This should include some interesting information about the parent topic, recycling. Maybe you could give some impressive sounding recycling statistics. At the end of this paragraph, place your thesis statement. This is just what your essay is about, so it should be a fancier version of “Recycling is important because… (list the topics of the following three paragraphs).”
2. In the next paragraph, write one reason why recycling is important. Start out the paragraph broad with a general statement, and then get more detailed with statistics. This should also be your strongest reason.
3. Repeat 2 with a new reason.
4. Repeat again. Put your least detailed reason here.
5. Take about five sentences to restate the three reasons why recycling is important. The last sentence should be a call to action urging people to recycle.

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I take it your American?

Http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/08/americans_recycle.php
http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/6229
http://greenliving.lovetoknow.com/United_States_Recycling_Statistics

If not let me know and i can try to help with another country’s recycling rates.

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Those numbers are astronomical.

A municipal solid waste facility is only one level of solid and toxic waste disposal in the U.S. A municipal landfill is usually monitored by a town or county authority. A County or City Landfill is usually monitored by them and the State and EPA.

I know that one County landfill, in an area that has 3 Solid Waste landfills, can fill up 11.5 Acres Squared within a year. This is about 1100 x 980, then they go about 300 feet into air space of Compacted trash.

Tons are established by daily counts.

You will look under Landfill, Solid Waste, Model Landfills, Trash, reclamation centers, and recycling plants.

Go to your State Website, go to the agency who monitors pollution or environmental quality of your State, then go to their website. On their website, there are usually multi-media listed; air, water, solid waste, haz waste, asbestos etc. Look under Solid waste, and usually those numbers are listed.

If your State agency is helpful they will have someone who may help you get the numbers you are seeking. For the U.S., you would need stats from the E.P.A, for the Globe…who knows.

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Many of the statistics are selective. For example, recycling statistics are based on the amount of material collected, not on the amount actually recycled, most recycled materials wind up in the landfill due to a glut in the market because the business model is to collect from homeowners on a monthly basis for the collection therefore the supply of recyclables is subsidized. You’re not going to find a easy set of graphs and pictures. You would probably have to inventory the amount of recyclables actually used in production such as the 2% in plastic bottles and the amount in newsprint but such data would hardly be in a central location. People just don’t want to see how they’re really not as green as they think they are. You could try contacting people such as Penn and Teller who are well known for denouncing the current green movements ( their focus is that it’s obviously an illusion and they are some of the best illusionists around ).

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Recycling is a broad topic and you can probably write an entire book about it. 🙂 Here are some sub-topics you might want to consider including in your report:

Definition – what is recycling? Explain recycling as a process, a choice, and a lifestyle.

Benefits of Recycling – How does recycling benefit society, individuals, and the environment? What are the 7 basic benefits of recycling?

Recycling Symbols – What do recycling symbols mean? What is the meaning of the Mobius loop? What are the different plastic recycling symbols and their significance?

Recycling Statistics – you can visit the Environmental Protection Agency site for a very detailed and updated information on this. Http://epa.gov

Types of recycling – here, you can discuss the specifics about reycling glass, plastic electronic waste, paper, etc.

Innovations – You might want to discuss the different technological innovations and breakthroughs, like the waste to energy technology in Denmark, or the plastic to oil conversion plant opened in DC last year.

Consequencies if we don’t recycle – You can discuss about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch for example, or the recently discovered garbage patch in the Atlantic.

I hope this helps. For more information, please visit my source:

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Paragraph 1: What is Recycling / Why do we do it

Paragraph 2: What are the benefits of Recycling / What are the down sides?

Paragraph 3: Different types of Recycling

Paragraph 4: Recycling statistics

Paragraph 5: How can people help recycle / improve

Paragraph 6: Conclusions