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There are recycle bins usually in grocery shopping centers especially one’s with Save-Marts. If you don’t have Save-Marts where you live just look for them at other grocery stores they look like big metal containers. Can’t give you a break down on the prices but cans pay the best. I don’t know what you mean about losing $$$ its a free service that they pay you for.

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I live in Fremont California and I was born and brought up here. Our city gives us garbage cans and recycle bins. Even if you live in an apartment complex, they have one big trash dump and recycle bins surrounding it. I would call up your local grocery store and ask what is going on with your city and where exactly, what address or where to recycle stuff.

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This is what I found:
Less than 24 ounces:

Aluminum $0.05
Glass $0.05
Plastic $0.05
Bimetal $0.05
24 ounces or more:

Aluminum $0.10
Glass $0.10
Plastic $0.10
Bimetal $0.10
You can check the link below for more info. I couldn’t find anywhere that will give you money for paper recycling.

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Each county in California is different…but in San Francisco its:

Green: Yard waste, food
Blue: Glass, cans, cardboard, aluminum

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Hi there!
There is a recycle place opposite Ralphs store in arcadia, ca 91007 on Sunset St. When you come out of Ralphs, in the parking lot, right opposite the store, there is a recycle center.

Hope this helps!

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A lot of states do-Maine, Vermont, Michigan, Hawaii, New york, Oregon, Iowa, Michigan and California
(gotten from a max Pepsi bottle)
some states will give 5 cents other 10cents
(for california its 5 cents for cans and 10 cent for one or 2 liter bottles

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Not the way it works in California – only aluminum cans are worth money and that by weight – the nickel a can/bottle that California collects at sale and gives back on recycle is way higher – cans are worth about half a cent each by weight.
You can recycle steel, copper, and other metals for money (unfortunately, people steal copper wiring, air conditioning coils and grave markers) based on the pound weight.
Dallas collects and recycles paper, metal cans, and plastics to keep them out of land fill and collects them once a week in special containers, but they do not pay and picking through the containers is a ticket-able offense.

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Go to www.earth911.org to find local recycle centers. They shouldn’t charge in CA, I’m pretty sure most electronics have a disposal fee when we buy them. If you can’t find an e-waste drop off location at the website I listed then call your city solid waste management office to find out where to dispose of hazardous waste. I’ve never heard of anyone willing to pay for used electronics, it is true there are some valuable materials in most electronics, but there is so much labor involved in the retrieval and so many hazardous chemicals that have to be dealt with safely that there isn’t any real profit in the process.

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Make some wine and fill them back up –ugru

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You recycle the tings we recycle becuase you want to continue to recycle becuz then it is a cycle that continues on and on and our garbage will decrease.
If we don’t eventually, with our growing population and diminishing land, we will be ‘swimming in garbage’ We will have too much garbage that we wouldn’t know what to do with it.

Point of the matter is, JUST follow the 3R’s Reuse, Reduce, Recycle.

Kayy, kid. -Peace.

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Recycling helps eliminate waste, which in return reduces the amount of trash in our landfills. Our landfills are already overflowing, so if we reuse and recycle items we can stop the pollution from invading our water, land and air.

You can read about the benefits of recycling here:
http://www.greenstudentu.com/recycling.aspx

Hope this helps!

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Recycling is processing used materials (waste) into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for “conventional” waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production.[1][2] Recycling is a key component of modern waste reduction and is the third component of the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” waste hierarchy.

Yes it is profitable.

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Recycling:
– Don’t be Trashy. Recycle.
– Eat, Sleep, Recycle.
– Wipe Out Waste.
– Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
– Don’t waste our future, recycle.
– Once all the rainforests are cut down, once all the rivers have dried up, and once all the resources are diminished, we will finally realize we can’t eat money.
– Easier saving paper than planting trees
– Think… before you print.
– To print or not to print
– To sit in the shade, you have to save paper first

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Recycle more and buy recycled. Save up to 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide each year just by recycling half of your household waste. By recycling and buying products with recycled content you also save energy, resources and landfill space!

Link to where you can drop off your recyclables:

http://www.earth911.org/master.asp?s=ls&a=Recycle&cat=1

Recycling Tips:

http://www.reducerubbish.govt.nz/recycle/tips.html

What can be recycled:

http://www.obviously.com/recycle/guides/common.html
http://www.cancentral.com/recycle/facts.doc

Recycling fun facts:

http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/trash/coll_funfacts.htm

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Depends.

HD9975 is for the recycling industry.

Laws related to recycling are scattered throughout the K’s, classed with laws for each country
KF5510 for U.S. Laws relating to recycling of waste

Technology of recycling falls in the T’s. The most general class is TD794.5, but you’ll also find works that address recycling throughout the TD’s, since that class is for Environmental technology and Sanitary engineering.

Works on recycling a certain type of material are classed with other works on that material, for example:
TD897.845 Recycling of factory wastes
TP859.7 Glass recycling
TP1175.R43 Recycling of polymers and plastics
TS1120.5 Paper recycling
N8541 Recycling of art materials

There’s also:
Z7914.R2 Bibliography of recycling

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Yes, it really does!
In Western Massachusetts we send all paper recycling to a mill in our state that makes hard book covers and board games. ALL of the millions of copies of the hard book covers of the last Harry Potter book were made directly from our region’s paper recycling. Our 78 western Mass towns were paid between $30-$50 per ton for the 32,000 tons of paper and cardboard they sent to the mill in 2006. In a healthy market like we had in ’06, that’s about $1,120,000 total revenue for our towns. (That’s a conservative estimate, it could be more!)

It takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to make it from raw materials. Making recycled steel saves 60%, recycled plastic 70%, and recycled glass 40%.

Recycling a single soda can saves the energy equivalent of a cup of gasoline. A can thrown into a recycling bin can become another can on a store shelf in as little as 60 days.

Recycling saves wildlife habitat, saves money, and saves a gigantic amount of energy. It just makes plain sense to use what we have already extracted from the earth again and again rather than going back to the mine or the forest and extracting raw materials. It is much much cheaper and less energy intensive for manufacturers to use recycled materials than raw materials.

The recycling infrastructure would not be there if it were not saving money for our towns and cities.

Much of what we buy today has recycled content in it.

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Here are some Recycling Centers in Indianapolis:

*White River Recycling & Transfer
200 South Harding Street
Indianapolis
(317) 636-2024

*Rock-Tenn Recycling
1775 South West Street
Indianapolis
(317) 634-7571

*Plastic Recycling Inc
2015 South Pennsylvania Street
Indianapolis
(317) 780-6100

*Republic Waste Services Of Indiana
832 Langsdale Avenue
Indianapolis
(317) 917-7300

*Indiana Recycling Coalition
1500 North Delaware Street
Indianapolis
(317) 632-5915

*Omnisource Southern Indiana Division
1212 East 25th Street
Indianapolis
(317) 381-5800

*Capitol City Metals LLC
311 Shelby Street
Indianapolis
(317) 634-7175

*Trinity Recycling
2025 Stout Field West Drive
Indianapolis
(317) 381-0968

*S W Industries Inc
2024 Bluff Road
Indianapolis
(317) 788-4221

*Discount Appliance
3518 E. Michigan Street
Indianapolis
(317) 375-7788(This one is a store were you give them appliances, and I think the Resell/Reuse them)

Hope I helped!

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We have a special recycling bin which we can use to put paper, cardboard, plastic bottles and packaging and cans in. We also have a bottle bin which goes off to be recycled too. Our bins are collected alternative weeks (i.e one week household waste, the next week recycling) but if they collected both each week or the recycling each week i would recycle more as our bin gets too full and i end up just putting the rest in with the household waste. If we want a bigger bin WE have to pay for it. Other areas are stricted and have bins for paper, bins for plastic, bins for tins and so on. You can also use the recycling points in lots of car parks/ supermarket car parks. Main thing to seperate is paper as you will throw away alot more than you realise

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In a small dish , pour a bit of apple cider Vinegar in it . Cover tightly with saran wrap and poke holes, you’ll soon have some dead fruit flies in the dish , for whatever reason , they can get in , but not out again !

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Corporate greed. The people on top of the heap take it personally when a drop in consumer spending cuts into their piece of the pie. So they make up the difference by screwing the rest of humanity.

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Buy in bulk quanties,buy reuable containers,buy recycled/recyclable containers?

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Contact any vermiculture firm in mumbai……..in Rajiv gandhi national park, there is department who are making this vermicultured compost. You can contact them.

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Take it to your local Habitat for Humanity outlet also known as Restore

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Yes because it tastes gross! It doesn’t taste like fresh like when you first made it…and there is bacteria in it…ewww i hate it!!!!!

Return the favor
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It’s not a stupid question :0) Indeed it’s only recently that there have been orange bins placed around neighbourhoods for plastic items

As for metal cans etc, well you still (at least in my muncipality and so I assume it’s the same for yours) have to place them in the general household waste (brown bin if you have a wheelie bin for your house) and metal items are seperated at the recyling plant as part of the normal process of seperation done there

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Yes – I’ll be considering the environment – I won’t be wasting my money on such a silly American invention! ! !

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Recycling is the reprocessing of materials into new products. This is in contrast with reuse: collecting waste such as food containers to be cleaned, refilled and resold.

You have not specified which thing to be recycled so just have a look at his link as it specifies the processes of recycling different things:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling

Thanks.?

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Hate to tell you ,but all living organisms are. You do not really think wasting all your resources to buy and ingest ‘pure foods’ is any more the just a marketing scam to get you to pay more for the same thing the rest of us are forced to eat?. Dream on. I count on millions of years of evolution and very good family genetics to process and dispose of toxins and dubious food sources. You need to worry about things less a real problem and worry more about your daily life and interaction with fellow humans . We will all live and die. Stressing does nothing but keep you from enjoying the limited time you have here.

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The Dutch had windmills for centuries before oil.
Barrels, bins, etc existed thousands of years ago.

It is true that quite a lot of our day-to-day goods are made of plastic.
However, it’s likely that something will replace that plastic.
Maybe oil as a lubricant would be more important.

Also, the fertilizer industry depends on oil.
And farmers are going to find that hard to replace.

It is true that oil is inordinately useful.
Maybe it would be good to stop burning it while there’s still some to be found — at a reasonable extraction price.

Edit: <>
I didn’t say they did.
And, you didn’t ask about energy, just about oil.
Clearly energy is going to be a problem.
But within a decade, would oil extraction is likely to start to decline.
At that point, you’ll see lots of other things used to make plastic.
And lots of other materials used to make windmills and recycle bins.
And significant growth in alternative energy.
(I’m getting solar panels as i type.)

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Hmm…you pose a good question. I wonder if they really are. Let’s find out.

I just found out they are made from 100% recycled plastic

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Throw it out. You don’t know what the coatings on the wall paper were, and some of the chemical compounds of the remover that you used might remain in the old paper, and it can be detrimental to the recycling process. It can “poison” a batch.

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True…but how interesting also that Recycling is touted as being the enviromentally friendly thing to do and is good for the country…when in fact is takes more energy to recycle used items.
The way they get by with this little mis-informed idea is that they make the assumption that everyone won’t give up their life styles and they will still want their bottled water…their soda’s…their pre-wrapped and packaged meats..etc….etc…..so its more economical to just reuse it..rather than scout out a new source and dig it up.
But the extra use of energy does require more resources and power than the original needed to be made.

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Yes, if it’s recyclable plastic then it will be sorted for you at the plant!

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Several possibilities, one is that was the color of the resin in use at the time theirs were run and they wanted the lowest costs possible. Another real possibility is the unit of government or company overseeing the program specified red as the color to be used.

While not much of answer, the red bin just is what it is because of a chain of decisions and circumstances.

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Once it is in the recycling bin on the curb, it is the property of the company that picks up the bin. Therfore, taking the cans is theft.

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First, get a GED.
Mowing lawns, landscaping, gardening, painting houses those are the only ones I can think of without training.

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This is what really pisses me off…

They wait until last minute and act.

1. Recycled water should of been introduced along before (for farmers and irrigators only)
2. Let the murray darling basin alone just for personal and domestic use and drinking etc. NOT INDUSTRIAL which woulda gave us few more hundreds years worth of good water..
3. Desanitation plants should of been made (to assist murray basin) instead of spending money on Army Defense research weapon systems and war ships, Wheres that (AU 6000 BILLION DOLLARS ) ? Etc…

Lets say the howard government did a very good job at making money off poorer countries and also did a very good job spending it on unnessessary stuff….

Anywayz I do not want to drink water thats has been treated even if they god rid of urine, shit, dead animals, humans, other stuff that should be left decomprosed…

Just the thought of it make me sick…..
Yes we did had a choice but now its too late when its dried up.. They obviously did not WANT TO SPEND MONEY FOR THE FUTURE until its too late… Stupids..

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Water is a renewable resource the earth recycles it with no help needed from you.

Forget about carbon footprints carbon dioxide has never been proven to cause any problems.

But we have something in the country that does this just fine with no power its called a septic tank. It uses no power and sends the treated water back into the ground or into a pond where the earth recycles it.

Its several 100 years old and still does the job.

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Recycling is how everyone is gaining awareness but remember there are several areas to saving the planet
Reduce – minimise the amount of waste you produce – shop sensibly! This can also involve going to markets, second hand stalls and charity shops to actually find quirky, alt clothing. And then modify for your needs – apparently fun!

Reuse – make sure that you have used an item to the end of its life – this can mean collecting and decorating random objects to give them new uses

Recycle – afraid this bit is slighty less fun – making sure that waste products are in the correct stream can be made more fun by
– putting basketball hoops over the bins
– creating special locations for areas (smarten up the bin area, the compost area, etc
– requesting through your local authority a visit to a recycling centre or visit from recycling officer.

Just a few suggestions but generally the fun part is knowing a lil mission has been a job done!

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I think it’s good to recycle…we recycle through our garbage company, paper, plastic, etc. We also used a old glass juice bottle for other juices, an empty one gallon ice cream bucket for big cleaning jobs. I use freecycle and give away old stuff I don’t use anymore that is still good. Better to give to someone that have it sit in a landfill. I use Brita Water filters rather than buying bottled water and if I fill up water bottles and drink from those. I also use a book swapping site so if I don’t want it I trade it, you can give away the unpostables with another order.

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All jobs are respectable. However, I think having a boyfriend who was an auto mechanic could be very helpful.

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Where do you live?
When I was fifteen in order to work somewhere I had to fill out papers for my worker’s permit first.
You can ask your counselor or principal at school for an application.
Or you can do a city job, like your local recycling center for example.

But it varies depending on where you live! Check it out.

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If she deleted a file across the network it doesn’t go to the recycle bin. It’s gone. She can pay large amounts of money to recover the file, but aside from that there is nothing she can do.

To clarify: if you are on the actual server via direct input or through remote desktop, you can delete a file off any local drive and it will go to the recycle bin, unless the server has been configured to delete files automatically. If you are using a shared folder through another PC, deleted files are just deleted, period.

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Sustainability involves organic farming, recycling, environmental studies and so forth. To give a clear idea of job possibilities in the field, just go and google real job listings and real businesses and organizations involved with sustainability.

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Ever since Maryland mandated curbside recycling in major cities throughout the state, it has become very difficult to convert aluminim cans into cash because there is so much aluminum in the recylables market. That said, there is at least one place in Baltimore that I understand still offers cash for aluminum cans, office paper, and the like.

Modern Junk & Salvage
1423 North Freemont Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21217
PHONE: (410) 669-8290
FAX: (410) 669-9096

You can also check this list of metal scrap recyclers in MD and call other places that are close to you.

Http://www.mdrecycles.org/recyclingDirectory.asp?sec=metals

Keep in mind that many scrap dealers have a minimum weight for dropoffs. Also, the last I checked, the going rate for aluminum scrap is around $0.60 per pound.

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BOULDER- RECYCLING Western Aluminum Recycling ?3280 Valmont ?Boulder, CO 80301-?(303) 447-0252 ?Recycles all non-ferroius metals- drop off only.

^^This looks like a place where you can cash in your cans.

Good luck, and remember to rate best answers!

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If you need money, concentrate on metal items.

Look through your area yellow pages to find metal recycling companies. There will be some variation on what they pay you per pound and that can change daily,

Anything aluminum, die cast zinc.pot metal, brass, copper, gold and silver scrap, lead, etc. Don’t bother with iron or regular steel at this time as it is usually purchased by the ton, not by the pound. Non-ferous stainless is also worth money by the pound, as is Magnesium.

Find out if they will buy copper wire with insulation- they might because some do..

Also find out how they grade items. Brass is usually red or yellow, as long as it does not have solder or other contaminating metal.

Copper will be graded according to rough size, remove any soldered joints or connectors.

Those soldered scraps are also worth money.

Aluminum is usually graded by cans, extrusions, cast, wire (remove steel core if electrical wire off of a powerline) sheet, and breakage.

Things like old lawnmower engines have many aluminum parts, as do automatic transmissions, some transfer cases, etc.

Electrical circuit boards are worth money, and those have several grades, if you find a buyer, ask how they grade them.

There are more items that factor into this- but they are something you can figure out as you go, and some you will learn from the buyer.

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Mookie Z down in Lumberton, Colorado has his own little recycle plant. You can contact him.

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Here are a few listings

http://local.yahoo.com/results?fr=dd-local-more&stx=aluminum+can+recycling+centers+recycle&csz=Houston%2C+TX

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Conroe, Texas has 43 places that pay you for cans. One is Texas Port Recyclers ( i don’t work for them). The others are in the Yellow Pages phone book.

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Here are a few places:

Earth Circle Recycling
(314) 664-1450

CAN Man Recycling
(314) 773-1777

Missouri Recycling Company
(314) 385-3245

Midwest Recycling Center Southtowne
(314) 200-9017

Missouri Recycling Co
(636) 349-9900

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I dont know about Plastic bottles and newspapers, but if you have enough Cans they pay by the pound at Recycle Centers look in your local phone book. Ussally about 40-50 cents a pound.. Cooper Wire seems to be where the money is at right now for some reason.

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Some states such as Oregon have a 5 cent deposit on aluminum pop and beer cans along with a 5 cent deposit on plastic drinking water bottles. Some states just recycle the scrap it self. Your have to crush those cans and place them in a 55 gallon barrel and then the aluminum is sold as scrap by the pound, prices around 75cents to 85 cents a pound. Check in your phone book for scrap purchasing. Again those prices of scrap can vary.

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For plastics, 1 and 2 are ALWAYS recyclable.
5 and 6 are commonly found, but are usually Styrofoam-like products and cannot be recycled… They are found in nearly all ‘hot cups’ [whether they look and feel like paper or not], but most fast food places almost always use them instead of paper cups. So just try to avoid them.
Some grocery stores now have ‘reusing’ centers for their plastic bags, so please participate, as plastic bags are #6 and cannot be recycled, only reused in their original form.

Paper. It is also important to recycle paper. Contrary to popular belief, all paper can be recycled. Paper bags, kid’s old school assignments, junk mail, newspapers, coupons, everything.

Glass is easily recycled, and jars and bottles are the most common.

Aluminum from tuna cans, fast food take out and the like are often recyclable.

But always check online for what your facility will and will not take.

Bottom line: If you are lucky enough to live in an area that includes recycling with garbage pick up, participate. If your area does not include recycling, look for your local recycling center. You may or may not have to pay a small handling fee, but keep in mind that those who have ‘free’ recycling are really just playing for it with their larger garbage pick up bill.

~Stay Green

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Yes, I use fabric trash bags. But no, I don’t use big plastic bags glad trash bags, or any of those products.

To line our kitchen garbage, I use a heavy duty (non recyclable) department store bag which is rinsed out and hung on the line to dry and disinfect, after it’s been emptied in the trash bins.

For the occasional plastic grocery store bag we sometimes end up with, they either get recycled, donated to a food pantry, or placed in a mutt mitt tower in public parks.

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Plastic bags are causing more damage than paper bags; especially plastic bags with thickness less than 20 microns.
Though there are many reasons for this fact, the main reasons are:
(i) plastic is not easily biodegradable
(ii) if thickness of plastic bag is less than 20 microns, it cannot be recycled
(iii) plastic bag getting into soil, accelerates soil erosion and cause soil sickness thereby rendering soil to loose its fertilitiy
(iv) the improperly disposed plastic bags are eaten away alongwith other things by the animals causing digestion problems to the animals.

Coming to your point of cutting trees for paper, you’re correct. But, trees are being felled leaving the base and roots for making paper thereby trees are allowed to have a fresh growth. However, if we are very much worried about conservation of trees/nature, we have to save paper by using them repeatedly number of times and to use them to the extent possible. Further, we can adopt methods of paperless communication, administration, examination, etc. By adopting conservation of paper, we indirectly aid in conservation of forest and environment.

It seems cruel to ask suggestions for killing animals. Animals are also one of the God’s creation and they form a link in food chain of living beings including humans. If one link is cut in a chain, it will harm all involved in the chain. Further, animals are also forming part and parcel of the ecology and they are having equal rights to live on the earth as human do have.

I hope a person like you who is concerned about better usage of paper and plastic bags in an interest of preserving environment, will not upkeep interest in killing animals though mightier than animals.

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What exactly happens will vary depending on the kind of system that’s set up in your location, but I’ll describe a typical system.

The garbage man will dump the bag into the truck. This can be either by hand, or a mechanical claw which picks up the dumpster/garbage can. There are rear-loader, side-loader, and front-loader garbage trucks. The garbage is then compacted. Regardless of whether you threw out food scraps, some old stuff, or dirty diapers, it all gets squished together and pushed into the truck to make room for more. The plastic bag will probably tear or be damaged, but that doesn’t make much of a difference.

The truck will then move on to the other houses, dumping their garbage and compacting it into the other garbage. After the truck finishes its rounds, it may head either to a transfer station, directly to the dump, or to an incinerator. At the transfer station, other trucks can take it to the dump or an incinerator while the regular truck continues its rounds. Certain high-density residential areas may pay to have their garbage shipped to another place. Some places will make the garbage go through machinery which sorts out certain materials for recycling, but most places just dump it directly.

The incinerator is fairly self-explanatory, it burns garbage for power and heat. The remaining unburned garbage will still have to be dumped.

In the dump, it all comes out of the truck in a big pile. Your individual garbage bag has been crushed and is in there somewhere. Bulldozers will roll over it, move it into “neat” hills, and partially cover it with dirt. Here, it will stay for a long time. Some things will slowly biodegrade, but they don’t do so very well in the conditions of the landfill, because all the garbage is squished together. The plastic bag stays there practically forever, unless you use biodegradable bags.

When landfills are closed, they’re covered completely. Pipes will be installed to collect the gases emitted from biodegrading garbage. This has a dual purpose: if the gas leaked out it would contaminate the area and the gas can be burned for electricity/heat production. Things are often built on top of old landfills, but these places tend to have lower property values because of the problems associated with landfills and possible environmental contamination.

I hope I helped!

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I wondered about this for many years my self, but finally last year i had the chance to go see a recycle transfer station in action.

Each transfer station may work differently, it depends what your council recycles. Also i wonder what sort of contaminants you are talking about,…

The good news off the bat, is they can deal with a fair amount of contaminants. Depending, I have heard Garbo’s say (to me) where they collect “recycle” bins in city and market areas it mostly does get dumped as waste- as there is just too much mixed rubbish. 🙁 PPL!!! Lift your game!!

The main contaminant is plastic bags./ They are the hardest to deal with- even if they are recyclable (as denoted by the triangle with the number). THis is because at the transfer station paper is sorted out on its floating thin (physical) properties: which unfortunately plastic shares- we DOnt want plastic with our paper. So they have guys on a conveyor belt just there to take out plastic bags…

Magnets lift the metals ( not aluminum- its not magnetic) so that’s nice and easy.

PLastic bottles are last left and their numbers are sorted at a different location ( china??)

A reverse polarity system gets the aluminium cans.. They are worth more than 2c EACh so they really want them

MOstly food scraps don’t matter- they hate getting them at the depot.. But it seems the problem is rats and smell rather than contamination that leads to reduction in recycleability!

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I dont really think you should make money by doing that, its not worth it, hold a garage sale or something. I went to a recycling center and brought like 5 full garbage bags full of bottles and they only gave me 10 bucks back. And it also takes a long time to build up on bottles and cans. Good luck!

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Great question. As you can see from the previous answers, beyond individual initiative the ‘garbage disposal bureaucracy’ has alot to do with motivation to recycle. For instance, in many places in the usa, you can collect all the plastic in the your world with an intention to recycle but discover there is nothing to do but put it in a landfill because plastic recycling facilities are just not existant 🙁

Picking up one’s own garbage (and that of one’s neighbors’) is still a wonderful personal initiative and better than nothing, in spite of where it ultimately goes (either effectively recycled or alternatively landfilled).

Funny story: I was with my Canadian husband [I am US american] waiting to cross the border into Canada from New York one day – in my car with USA tags. While in the car line to show our passports, my Canadian husband tossed a cigarette out of the window – a bone of contention between us because I hate that and constantly ran behind him retrieving his butts and crunching them up and putting them in my jeans pockets for proper disposal. When we got to the Border Guard Shack, we watched the Officer walk back to the point at which my Canadian husband had pitched his butt. The Canadian Border Guard retrieved the butt from the ground, came to my car window and said “We are so tired of YOU PEOPLE [meaning US Americans – assuming we were us Americans] TRASHING [CANADA]” I was so sad that US Americans, in general, carried the ugly reputation for being trashy. My Canadian husband protested that, even though our car tags were USA, he – a Canadian – was the litterbug. Point of this story is that: It MUST be an individual effort. We are all responsible for our litter and you have to make it an indivual moral philosphy – just as you seem to be doing. The secondary moral here is: Generalizations are not always accurate. Some Canadians are environmental slobs and some US americans have environmental morals.

Hopefully, environmental fragility will make environmental morals a mandate for us all.

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Here are a few lovely ideas that are inexpensive, quick & recycle material :

http://www.google.co.in/search?q=paper+dress&hl=en&client=opera&hs=bOc&rls=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=bfWLTfmSBNT4ceyTlIkK&ved=0CDQQsAQ — paper dress
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Paper-Dress — how to make a paper dress in 9 easy steps
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=opera&hs=bOc&rls=en&q=how+to+make+paper+bag+dress&aq=6m&aqi=g2g-v3g-j1g-m4&aql=&oq=paper+bag+dress –how to make paper bag dresses
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=opera&hs=BQc&rls=en&q=how+to+make+a+dress+made+out+of+newspaper&aq=2b&aqi=g2g-b1&aql=&oq=how+to+make+newspaper+dress — how to make newspaper dresses
http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=opera&hs=RRc&rls=en&q=how+to+make+a+dress+from+bin+bags&aq=8&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=how+to+make+a+dress+from+ — how to make garbage bin bag dresses.
Http://www.ehow.com/how_5778784_make-dress-out-cellophane-wrap.html — How to Make a Dress Out of Cellophane Wrap

Hope these help
Have fun “fabricating” 🙂

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Where have you been? Oo

1. Many centralised recycling bins have popped up in many HDB estates. Seeing how HDB accounts for over 75% of housing in Singapore, this is a fairly large movement.

2. For new estates in development, the government has embarked on a pioneer project to install a recycling chutes. The project is currently under testing for feasibility in Seng Kang. I can’t remember the exact name of the estate though.

3. There are recycling bins in ORCHARD ROAD. I don’t know about you but when I pop down there for my weekly Japanese lessons, I bring the weekly household collection of paper for recycling and dump them there.

4. Bring Your Own Bag Day every first Wednesday of the month. If you have not heard of this….@.@ Basically, supermakets in partnership with this campaign don’t provide plastic bags to their shoppers on that day. Shoppers must bring their own bag, or purchase a resuable bag from the supermarket for $1 or pay 10 cents (I believe) for everything plastic bag issued. Recently, certain retail stores have also took to the initiative to expand this campaign beyond supermarkets.

5. Recycling bins have invaded schools as well. For me, we have bins for both paper, (outside the photocopy shop and library) metals and plastic (in the canteen, most likely for tin cans and bottles.)

6. Regarding your email point on int catridges, I know for one that HP is willing to recycle their old ink cartridges. It’s rather inconvienent as the drop off points are not very well known (You can see their list here: http://h50055.www5.hp.com/ipg/supplies/recycling/supplies/sg/individual.asp) and I seldom remember to bring my ink catridges out. (Yes they’re still in my cupboard.)

Of course you’re right about what little we have done compared to countries like Japan and Europe. The government can only do so much, what matters most is the mindset of the people. For example in Australia, it’s only natural that the people bring their own bags when they go groccery shopping.

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1) If rocks start as Igneous, they are weathered and broken down. The remains of this process become Sedimentary. Sedimentary rocks are then subducted or otherwise put under heat and pressure which transforms the mineralogic make up making them Metamorphic rocks. Finally, with sufficiently high temperatures and pressures, Metamorphic rocks contribute to and melt themselves to make …Igneous rocks. The real answer is a lot more complicated, but this is the basic reason it is called a “rock cycle”
2) No good answer to this. The recycling of rocks over billions of years has resulted in the continental crust that we humans live on, but as to how it is related to human recycling… You’re on your own.
3) Water can provide mechanical weathering by causing rocks to beat against one another turning big rocks into sand and silt. Rain water is slightly acidic which breaks down rocks …especially marble and limestone.
4) That would be chemical. Gravestones are frequently made of marble and marble is etched by rain
5) A lot…Development along water ways increase the amount of water in rivers making erosion faster. Burning Coal adds sulfur and CO2 to the atmosphere which further acidifies the atmosphere increasing chemical weathering. (just a couple)

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I would stick with one school of a single species. Danios and Neot tetra’s are good fish to go with. The danios will proabaly be hardier than the neons.

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It’s broken up for scrap. Some parts might be saved.

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Because the rock cycle is a process where weathered rocks break down into smaller rocks then compacted down into earth until it is later shot out of a volcano where it then cools and solidified … This can be compared to taking used newspaper, cutting it up into small pieces, and then screening them into paper to reuse them.

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Rock Types
1.There are three basic types of rocks found in the rock cycle. The first one is sedimentary. This type can be broken down into two categories: detrital and chemical. The difference is that detrital is formed by organic debris, whereas chemical rocks are formed by water-depositing minerals getting into the rock to crystalize it.

The next type of rock is igneous rock. These rocks are formed by molten rock that has cooled down and crystalized, either below or at the Earth’s surface.

Metamorphic rock is formed when extreme heat and pressure come together (usually in magma) to alter a rock’s minerals, and it changes into something else, hence the name metamorphic.
Breaking It Down
2.There are five processes in the rock cycle: metamorphism, weathering and erosion, cementation and compaction, melting, and cooling and solidification.

Weathering and erosion typically create sedimentary rocks. Weathering is when water, air and gravity all come together to break the rocks down into smaller particles, or sediments. There are two kinds of weathering: mechanical and chemical. Mechanical occurs when things are broken down by the water, wind, and air to make detrital sedimentary rocks. Chemical weathering occurs when the chemical composition of the rock is altered by water evaporating from the rock and depositing chemical sediment. Weathering only covers the breaking down process. When water, wind, air or gravity transport the sediment, it’s known as erosion.

Over time, this erosion process layers the sediment onto itself, and gravity forces the bottom layers to be moved into the Earth. This process is called compaction. When natural glues like silica and calcite are added to the compacted rock, they are cemented together, hence the term cementation.
Building It Up
3.As the bottom layers of sedimentary rock are moved further into the Earth, they are heated and melt, where they’re later transferred out of the ground by volcanic activity. On the way out of the the Earth, they heat rock that’s buried in the Earth’s crust, transforming it into metamorphic rock. Then, it’s shot out of the volcano, where it cools and solidifies. This cooled rock is called igneous rock.

The metamorphic rock and igneous rock are weathered down and eroded, when they become sedimentary rock. They are deposited, layered and the cycle starts all over again. ”

( http://answers.yahoo.com/question/answer?qid=20101208130837AACbYs1 )

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I don’t bother with it. I clean up my own messes and would like others to do the same. I’ll recycle if its economically feasible and throw stuff away if its not.

I actually don’t think its humanly possible to either destroy or save the planet.

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Wow guy most of us just play games.

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Depends on what your re-cycling, how much he start up costs are and market
there probably wont be a very good market for used diapers for instance but recycling motor oil or converting used cooking oils into fuel have a good market but start up costs run into millions and still require a gov subsidy at present. If you mean collecting used soda cans and such, there are a lot of homeless people (and others) doing that and make reasonable money from it, depending on how far you are from a collection centre

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Animals take nutrients and oxygen and use these to extract the energy the animal needs to live and move.

Plants take the waste products from animals (including carbon dioxide) and absorb energy from sunlight to reverse the process and produce animal nutrients and oxygen.

The energy the animal uses is derived indirectly from the sun in a constant recycling of their waste through plants to provide more fuel for the animal.

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The rock cycle is a fundamental concept in geology that describes the dynamic transitions through geologic time among the three main rock types: sedimentary, metamorphic, and igneous. Each type of rock is altered or destroyed when it is forced out of its equilibrium conditions. An igneous rock such as basalt may break down and dissolve when exposed to the atmosphere, or melt as it is subducted under a continent. Due to the driving forces of the rock cycle, plate tectonics and the water cycle, rocks do not remain in equilibrium and are forced to change as they encounter new environments. The rock cycle is an illustration that explains how the 3 rock types are related to each other and how processes change from one type to another over time.

Recycling involves processing used materials into new products to prevent waste of potentially useful materials, reduce the consumption of fresh raw materials, reduce energy usage, reduce air pollution (from incineration) and water pollution (from landfilling) by reducing the need for “conventional” waste disposal, and lower greenhouse gas emissions as compared to virgin production.[1][2] Recycling is a key component of modern waste management and is the third component of the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” waste hierarchy.

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Haha, I know what answer you are looking for. Lets look at the example of plastic bags. The order should always be:
1) Reduce – reduce your use, tell the people bagging your groceries to put it all in 2 bags instead of 5.

2) Reuse that plastic bag to do groceries again or for your lunch or whatever.

3) Recycle – once you have used the bag to its full potential put it in the recycling pile.

Why is this the best order? It is the most energy efficient way to do things. Recycling also takes energy which is sometimes neglected, it is always better to find a 2nd use for something than to recycle it.

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Camels
they can do everything 😀

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Assuming you are in the United states

The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency – Federal) and DEQ (Department of Environmental Quality – State). Write and govern environmental policy.

The book that identifies all of the Environmental Regulations is called 40 CFR : Protection of the Environment. CFR stands for Code of Federal regulations (www.gpoaccess.gov/ecfr )

Your first questions is too vague. The applicable rules depend on what the company does or what it produces.

Business’ have to deal with Air Permits, Storage Times, Energy usage, Discharge Permits, Disposal Costs, Recycling Cost, Transportation cost.

Greening Inititives, Recycling, alternative disposal methods, and Waste to Energy, are all trends in managing environmental issues.

The main concern with managing any of these new techonolgies is cost.

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The British Govt. Led by Gordon Brown is doing a fine job repairing the UK economy brought on by greedy US banks. No doubt these problems are being dealt with but you don’t read about them in the Daily Mail. I suppose your Eton slime balls would sort all this out in a jiffy.

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Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal, and monitoring of waste materials. The term usually relates to materials produced by human activity, and is generally undertaken to reduce their effect on health, the environment or aesthetics. Waste management is also carried out to recover resources from it. Waste management can involve solid, liquid, gaseous or radioactive substances, with different methods and fields of expertise for each.

Waste management practices differ for developed and developing nations, for urban and rural areas, and for residential and industrial producers. Management for non-hazardous waste residential and institutional waste in metropolitan areas is usually the responsibility of local government authorities, while management for non-hazardous commercial and industrial waste is usually the responsibility of the generator.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_management
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Drawing on our resources and experience, we actively pursue projects and initiatives that benefit the waste industry, the communities we serve and the environment.

Waste Management uses waste to create enough energy to power more than 1 million homes every year. By 2020, we expect to double that output, creating enough energy to power more than 2 million homes.
As North America’s largest recycler, Waste Management managed more than 7 million tons of recyclable commodities in 2009. By the year 2020, we expect to increase the amount of material we manage to more than 20 million tons per year.
By the end of 2009, Waste Management had 119 landfill-gas-to-energy projects producing 540 megawatts of power, the equivalent of powering approximately 400,000 homes.
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Through a joint venture with the Linde Group, we have built a plant that converts landfill gas into liquefied natural gas for use as fuel in our trucks. The facility is currently producing 13,000 gallons per day.
At the end of 2009, we had a total of 73 WHC-certified sites. We also set a goal to have 25,000 acres dedicated solely to nature preservation by 2020, and we have nearly reached that goal: at year-end, we had 24,000 protected acres.
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It’s great that you are interested in recycling, despite what the rest of your family’s opinions are!

Now, to recycle is really going to depend on what services are offered to you where you live. If you have roadside pickup (if you live in a house), then the waste management “teams” will pick up sorted out recyclables that you have separated into separate bins. If you don’t have those bins, you would need to contact them to get the necessary ones and find out what the rules are for what your local recyclers will accept. If you live in an apartment/condo where the garbage is typically centralized, it will depend on whether there are recycling bins available outside. If not, you can talk to your Homeowner’s Association/Apartment Management to request that they would provide and hope that they agree. If you don’t have either option, then you would need to collect your recyclables and take them to a local recycling location, where you can drop off such recyclables for them to recycle.

What you can recycle will typically depend on where you are as well, for what the recyclers accept and recycle. Many plastics are usually accepted, as is cardboard and newspaper and most other paper. Glass is often accepted (and should be accepted more as it’s easily recyclable). You need to find out the rules in your area to see. Many recyclers don’t want things such as styrofoam, as although it’s recyclable, it’s so light yet takes up so much room that it’s kind of inefficient to transport large quantities of it.

Hope you find things out easy enough and are on the path to regular recycling!

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Slaughter House Waste

India has the world’s largest population of livestock. According to the Ministry of Food Processing, a total of 3616-slaughter houses slaughter over 2 million cattle and buffaloes, 50 million sheep and goat, 1.5 million pigs and 150 million poultry annually, for domestic consumption as well as for export purposes. The waste generated here are liquid and solid in nature. Slaughtering of animals generates waste consisting of non-edible organs, stomach contents, dung, bones and sludge from waste water treatment. Central Pollution Control Board has brought out “Draft guidelines for sanitation in slaughter houses” during August 1998.

Slaughter house types Waste generated
Large 6 – 7 tonnes / day
Medium 2 – 6 tonnes / day
Small 0.5 – 1 tonnes / day

SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND THE LAW

Laws concerning solid waste are passed to improve the solid waste management and to regulate the disposal activity, which causes problems in public health, the environment and economics. Many laws apply to the control of solid waste management problems.

Acts, Rules and Notification regarding Solid Waste Management in Inida

Law of Torts
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908
Constitution of India, 1950
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974
The Air (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1981
Environment Protection Act, 1986
Hazardous waste (Management & Handling) Rules, 1989
Coastal Regulation Zone Notification, 1991
Bio-medical wastes (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998.
Recycled plastics (Manufacture and Usage) Rules, 1999
Municipal Waste (Management and Handling) Rules 2000
The right to live in a clean and healthy environment is not only a fundamental right guaranteed under Article 21 of our Constitution but also a right recognized and enforced by the courts of law under different laws, like Law of Torts, Indian Penal Code, 1860 Civil Procedure Code, 1908 and Criminal Procedure Code, 1973. The Constitution of India, 1950 the earliest legislation and which is the supreme law of the land has imposed a fundamental duty on every citizen of India under Article 51-A(g) to protect and improve the environment. The obligation on the State to protect the environment is expressed under Article 48 A. The right to live in a healthy environment is also a basic human right. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948 has declared under Article 3 that everyone has the right to life and under Article 25 that everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for health and well being of himself and of his family.

At the national policy level, the ministry of environment and forests has legislated the Municipal Waste Management and Handling Rules 2000 in exercise of the power conferred under sections 3, 6 and 25 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986. These rules shall apply to every municipal authority responsible for collection, segregation, storage, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid wastes.

Composting of wastes is a legal requirement provided under the Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSW) Rules 2000 for all municipal bodies in the country. The MSW Rules 2000 requires that “biodegradable wastes shall be processed by composting, vermi-composting, anaerobic digestion or any other appropriate biological processing for the stabilization of wastes”. The specified deadline for setting up of waste processing and disposal facilities was 31 December 2003 or earlier.

Every municipal authority shall, within the territorial area of the municipality, be responsible for the implementation of the provisions of these rules, and for any infrastructure development for collection, storage, segregation, transportation, processing and disposal of municipal solid wastes.

The Central Government, to perform its functions effectively as contemplated under sections 6, 8, and 25 of the Environment Protection Act, 1986, and has made various Rules, Notifications and Orders including the Bio-medical wastes (Management & Handling) Rules, 1998.

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Wikipedia has a good definition of waste management.

Waste management is the collection, transport, processing, recycling or disposal of waste materials, usually ones produced by human activity, in an effort to reduce their effect on human health or local aesthetics or amenity. A subfocus in recent decades has been to reduce waste materials’ effect on the natural world and the environment and to recover resources from them.

Waste management can involve solid, liquid or gaseous substances with different methods and fields of expertise for each.

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Waste Management is the term that refers to the collection, processing, recycling, transport, and monitoring of waste products. The waste products means the various materials produced by human activity and is undertaken for reducing their effect on health, environment or aesthetics. Another application of the waste management is to recover the various resources from it. It involves the management of solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes. Each type of waste requires a different methods and fields of expertise. The practices of waste management differ from developed and developing nations. In fact, there is difference in methods used in the urban and rural areas, and also for industrial or residential producers.

Please vote my answer

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I take my aluminum cans to Orlando Recycling off of East Colonial near the Orlando Speedworld drag strip. I don’t know if they take glass or plastic bottles but I always get my money’s worth for my aluminum cans.

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Fyi, the first answer above sounds like malaysian to me.

In Indonesian, you can write:
“Alat Daur Ulang. Jangan dikosongkan atau dibuang isinya”

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Depends on the recycling program and the type of plastic… Most plastic containers have a triangle on the bottom with a number inside it that tells you they type of plastic… The bin you recycle in needs to have that same number/symbol on it in order for you to be able to recycle it.

If it doesn’t then you recycling plant may not be set up to handle that type of plastic.

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Polypropylene is commonly recycled, and has the number “5” as its resin identification code:
The symbols used in the code consist of arrows that cycle clockwise to form a rounded triangle and enclosing a number, often with an acronym representing the plastic below the triangle. When the number is omitted, the symbol is known as the universal Recycling Symbol, indicating generic recyclable materials. In this case, other text and labels are used to indicate the material(s) used. Previously recycled resins are coded with an “R” prefix (for example, a PETE bottle made of recycled resin could be marked as RPETE using same numbering).

Auto parts, industrial fibers, food containers, and dishware are part of this group.

Alternatively have you thought about what the previous contents of the contaner was, it may have been a substance that made the Polypropylen toxic.

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Actually it’s quite difficult to recycle wet-food cardboard and wasn’t possible for some time.
In the UK they are accepted in the recycle bin but not all councils actually re-cycle them!

Basically layered material is hard to recycle – wet food cardboard has a thin poly-layer that has to be separated from the cardboard.

Do you remember old toothpaste tubes – made of metal – just like tomato paste tube – recycle-able. Then came – poly-layered metal tubes – not recycle-able. Now the metal has gone and they are recycle-able.

But why tubes – why cartons why not RE-USEABLE jars. They do this on the continent (Europe) They still do it in England for Milk delivered and Juice delivered in bottles by electric milk floats. Wastes way less energy bringing a bottle back – cleaning it and then re-filling it as opposed to melting it down and making another one.

In France you take back empty wine bottles for the seller to fill up from a cask for your table wines.

Bring back the deposit on the pop-bottle thing and roll it out to all Jars and the like. Yea gods we made our pocket money as kids knocking on doors and taking folks Corona Bottles back to the shop – some folk would give them up for nothing – Old-folk would split the deposit with us.

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Anyone who says that all plastic is recycled is incorrect. The recycling rate for plastics overall, at least in the U.S., is very low–just 7%. That means that 93% of all plastic consumed in the U.S. Ends up as landfill waste, litter or is incinerated.

Their is one group of plastic that has a relatively good recycling rate (28%) and that is the category of beverage bottles marked with a number 1 or 2, indicating the type of plastic. Unfortunately, the bottles you describe (those used in the beauty industry) are not always accepted by collection facilities because they are made with plastics that are harder to find recycling programs for (i.e. Types 3, 4, 5 or 7). If they are marked with a 1 or 2, they may be accepted for recycling, but not always. Some collection facilities only take a type 1 or 2 bottle if it is a BEVERAGE bottle. A strange rule, but one that is practiced in my Washington state community.

To find out what is accepted for recycling in your community, contact your local solid waste department for details.

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I don’t know of the site, but to truly teach recycling, why don’t you look for containers that you may already have that can be re-purposed. Or materials that can be used to make a recycle bin. This would be a great lesson.

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Look on the bottom, if it has a triangle with a number in it then most likely. Go to www.earth911.com to see if there is a recycle center that takes that type of plastic.

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I can’t tell where you live, so the answer about free paper recycling is “it depends.”

Abitibi http://www.paperretriever.com/?id=1 can provide a free paper recycling bin under most circumstances and will even pay for the paper, but you must be in their service area. Here in Oklahoma, you see Abitibi’s “Bowater Bins” everywhere–schools, churches, even at airports.

Another option is to go to http://earth911.com/ and enter your information to search for paper recycling, then contact the appropriate companies.

The ideal paper-recycling setup for your situation would be:

1. Obtain a bin and pickup services (hopefully for free!) for your parking lot.
2. Purchase the small blue bins at home improvement stores (Lowe’s, Home Depot, and even some Target and Wal-Mart stores have them), and place them in the buildings at strategic locations.
3. Designate a person to empty the bins into the larger paper-recycling bin in your parking lot.

You must be careful to avoid putting trash in the paper bins. We have 2 paper bins at my recycling center, and at least once a month someone fills them with household trash, lumber, yard waste, broken glass, dirty clothes, dead animals, or used carpet. Since Abitibi will not pick up bins of trash, my volunteers must go into the bins and clean the trash out. One of our Abitibi bins was even filled with fireworks and burned down. As there are “real” large trash dumpsters near our paper bins, people do this simply for spite.

Bless you for trying to recycle! I hope your proposed plan works.