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After reading the other answers, which clearly deviate from the original question, I would like to offer my simple answer which is that yes, the SuperWalmart in my home town of Olathe KS still provides the bag recycling. But if Walmart ceases to offer this service I can always take my bags to Price Chopper.

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Recycling is not the only objective here. We should be doing the best for the next generation and not wasting the planet’s resources. Hence the message should be the three Rs. Reduce, Reuse and only then Recycle. Only buy what you need, reuse your bags until they fall apart and then use stronger ones. Complain if the things you buy come with excessive packing. Only then recycle and use as many of the raw materials to produce new things.

The economics of recycling are difficult to predict and sometimes even if recycling plastic is cost effective, there may not be the processors
to buy that plastic and it may end in landfill. However, in the UK landfill is getting more and more rare as sites are disappearing and there is a tax of around £32 per tonne to dump any waste in landfill, therefore swinging the costs in favour of recycling.

However, recycling is generally very cost effective. Aluminium uses twenty times more energy to produce from ore than it does from a recycled cans. Even given the costs to transfer to the smelter, this is hugely cost effective.

When our food waste and other organic material rots in an environment deprived of air, such as landfill, it produces methane. However, most landfills are badly organised to collect the gases produced and it disappears into the atmosphere, having a small impact on climate change itself, as methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It would be far better to use a dedciated bio-digester. This not only produces better yields of gas than just dumping it, but it also means that the non-digested remains can be used as potting compost and soil conditioner for the garden trade, reducing the need to dig up peat from lowland bogs, themselves a threatened environment.

If your local authority is not using a anaerobic digester, it makes sense to try and compost your food waste in your garden if you have one, using a method where the waste is open to the air and digests aerobically, avoiding the productionn of methane. This will save lots of money on transporting it to a composter or landfill, which is paid for out of your local taxes.

All in all, conservation and recycling is just going away from spend spend spend and back to common sense, in my view.

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Look at Cost-benefit analysis on this URL for the answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling

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Take a look at Foundstone’s web site. They have a pretty good setup to help you learn their software.

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Well the thing is, the felons are nnot recycling to save the planet; they are recycling to get the money.

At any metal recycling facility (aka scrap yard), you can get payed to bring in metals such as copper, aluminum, steel ect.

All of these metals will get you money; for example, copper will get you payed $3.30 per pound of clean copper. So, if I run into home depot, steal $1,000 worth of copper tubing, and sell it to a scrap yard, I can make $200.

This type of theft is a very serious, and destructive type of felony. Check out this story of metal theft: http://scrappingmetal.blogspot.com/2010/10/metal-theft.html

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It seems to me that plastic is in some way toxic at all levels. It starts out as oil and degrades each time you recycle it, and it never dies. It just gets smaller and smaller.

Clear plastic does leak pretty nasty poison.

Aluminum has been linked by some people to various diseases but the link isn’t really clear.

Like oil, there is also a finite amount of it. Aluminum, however, is almost infinitely recyclable. Even if it takes more energy, it is still better because it won’t stick around in the environment, poisoning and choking things for millions of years. By using plastic at all, you feed the demand for it(and plastic is evil, as far as I am concerned). Also, recycling aluminum is better than recycling plastic in the long run because it won’t degrade until it is useless. It will always have a bunch of uses when you recycle it.

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“Seem to be” high quality food? According to whom? Whiskas is GARBAGE. And fish is VERY bad to feed to your cats – http://www.littlebigcat.com/index.php?action=library&act=show&item=whyfishisdangerousforcats A better quality food made with chicken would be MUCH healthier for your cat.

Not sure why you think it’s good that the food comes in pouches. The pouches aren’t recyclable and therefore end up in a landfill forever. The cans are recyclable and hence can be used for more products. Is rinsing out a cat food cat once or twice a day REALLY that much of a chore to you?

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Yes, this is a complicated question, but it is clear from your comment that “price has no object here, just actual value” that you don’t understand what you are asking. And your parting remark, “[don’t] give me some half answer” confirms that.

The fundamental issue is that there is not just one resource at issue here but multiple resources. So if one approach uses more of A and less of B than another, you have to compare the value of A and B to determine which approach is better. If you are not going to use price, how are you going to compare? If you are going to use, which prices should you use?

Economists have wrestled with this for decades with no clear answer. And, of course, the problem gets much harder when there are more than 2 resources involved.

Just for some examples of issues that have to be dealt with:

1. Glass bottles take less energy to make than aluminum, and don’t require oil at all, but are heavier and entail higher transportation costs. The transportation costs aren’t important if the bottles aren’t transported far.

Also, it used to be that glass was heavily recycled – I remember when milk came in glass bottles that were actually reused – but no longer. Do we take the theoretical capability (reuse after cleaning)? The current recycling practice (remelting – taking more energy), or current practice (very few glass bottles actually getting recycled?

Bear in mind that glass is essentially inert – it doesn’t degrade but it doesn’t poison the environment either.

The fact that you didn’t even mention glass is an indication of current mind-set. Most consumers don’t particularly like it for larger volumes, because of its weight and fragility. Ditto for producers. How do we factor that into the equation?

2. Aluminum cans take a great deal of electricity to produce, even when recycling is taken into account. So much so, that all the aluminum refineries are near hydro-power plants – electricity from fossil fuels is just too expensive. How do you trade off all that energy with the fact that it comes from renewable sources?

On the one hand, if that electricity weren’t used to produce aluminum, some of it, at least, could be used to replace electricity produced from coal.

On the other hand, it is much cleaner energy than coal or oil.

3. Another material you haven’t considered is paper. It doesn’t work well for gallons of milk, but it clearly does work for half-gallons and quarts so it should work for juice and other fruit drinks even it doesn’t work for carbonated beverages.

Yet while orange and grapefruit juices come in paper, very few other drinks do.

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1 and 3 was kinda funny

5 was incorrect and 6 was ok

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Yup.

Glass, Plastic, Steel, Aluminum, Old news papers.

I even go so far as to take old egg cartons and make paper and planters. Then Old paper grocery bags have become brown wrapping paper.

Garbage cardboard boxes from gas stations make great storage on the cheap.

Hell…. I even recycle old junk from broken stuff. I have a dowel rod and two burlap sacks that are now a set of curtains in my living room.

Go to the bathroom, take all the soap slivers. Now put them in a double boiler and melt them down into new soap that can be poured into old jello molds.

I pick up trash on the side of the highway too… I’m not a liberal.

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1- I don’t use any plastic bags other than for garbage or the bio-degradable litter box liners.
2- walk or bike to nearby destinations.
3- turn your thermostat a couple degrees down in winter and up in summer.
4- use space heaters/AC in the room(s) that you are actually using instead of using a central one for the whole house.
5- recycle your plastics and papers.
6- use toilet paper and paper towels that are made of recycled paper (Scott brand is a good one).
7- try not to use paper towels at all.
8- when grocery shopping, instead of using plastic bags for each one of the fruits and vegetables that you are buying, try to either put similar stuff in one bag (for example you can easily put apples and oranges in one bag and when at the cash register, ask the cashier to take them out of the bag and weight them separately), or don’t use any bags for the things that don’t need one (prepacked fruits and vegetables don’t need to go in another bag and there).
9- if you can, buy your dry foods in bulk (less packaging).

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– Recycle garbage to reuse and reduce costs of remaking.
– Make a system where stalls are not allowed to give their customers plastic bags unless their customers buy a certain amount of weight.
– Try and use public transport or maybe cycle or walk

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It depends on where you live — different areas have different guidelines. The best way to find out is to contact your trash collecting company (they probably have a website), and ask them.

But just some guidelines:
-The CD plastic covers, plastic sandwich bags (wash them first!), egg cartons, yogurt containers (also washed), plastic bags, textile materials, juice boxes and aluminum foil (once again, washed) can all be recycled. Depending on your system, you may have to sort them into different bins, but your collecting company should be able to tell you that.
-The egg shells can be composted, so once again, depending on what your trash collection company takes, you may be able to separate this from other trash — but sometimes they don’t, and you either have to put it in with the rest of your trash or find your own composting site.
-As for other food waste, depending on what kind of food it is you either have to throw it in the trash, or compost it (you can find a list here of what you can compost or not: http://www.fundyrecycles.com/index.php?id=29)
-As for the carpet, I don’t really know whether that can be recycled or not, but if you contact the company that collects your trash, they’ll be able to tell you. If the carpet is still in good shape, you could even consider donating it to a charity so that somebody else could use it and it doesn’t go to waste.

I hope that helps, but like I said before, depending on where you are from, the guidelines could be different, so the best thing to do is to get in touch with the company that picks up your trash.

Good luck!

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I can see you’ve never been to a garbage dump. They do not open the garbage bags and check what’s in the bags. At least they don’t at the garbage dumps I’ve been to. Garbage trucks take only garbage, so the best they can do about stuff that ought to be recycled is to not pick it up at all. The garbage trucks dump out whatever they have in them at the dump. Then the staff at the dump use large machines to plough the garbage into piles, or they use compactors to squash it smaller.

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I recycle much of my trash but not all that the town says I’m supposed to. I simply do the best that I can.

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There is a lot more that can be done.

I think the way to go is integration – not separation.

We have a truck that comes once every 2 weeks. We have recycling bins that take glass, plastic bottles only, cans, and a paper bag. Men sort this box by hand into the truck into separate chutes.
It would be easier to have a larger bin, and collect the whole thing – the process of sorting being done on an industrial scale. This way waste streams could be sorted with minimum labour.

I think Government should legislate to introduce UV marker dyes into plastic type feedstock. The products would look the same – but could be sorted automatically by machine under UV light. Eg Pet could be blue, LDPE – green, PVC-red etc. As the dyes are very specific to the frequency of UV – they could just fluoresce under a specific band

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“Recycling” is a pretty large topic but not quite as vast as your question. We need more information. What grade is the report for? What class is the report for? Is it a written report and if so how long is it to be? If written, do you have more direction like a factual essay, opinion, or research with citations? Is it an oral report and if so, how long is it to be? Is it to be an instructional type of presentation, have props, have hand-outs, and/or should it demonstrate something? Or, is this report to be basically a science report or report of some sort of scientific work you’ve done. Is the specific topic suppose to be about something happening in your community, the US, in a particular industry, or about a particular material?

I’m going to guess that you are feeling somewhat lost about the topic of recycling in general…..Recycling is the use of waste material or items. These are items that would else wise end up “in the garbage”, a landfill, a hazardous waste facility, etc… All too often, we use the word recycling to talk about gathering separated items like collecting plastic bottles in special, recycling bins. Recycling also includes the re-use and/or re-manufacture of those items into something new or different. The gathering plus re-manufacture of items diverted from the waste stream is called “closing the loop”, or in some circles “closed loop recycling”.

The 4R’s are the cornerstones of the current environmental movement: Reduce, Re-use, Recycle, and Re-purpose. To Reduce is use, buy, or make less in the first place. For example, the furniture maker who is able to change the way he cuts a board so that he can get two usable pieces out of each thus reducing the amount of waste material he generates. To Re-use is based in not disposing of an item and instead using it again for the same purpose. Example are: using and refilling a metal water bottle as opposed to using disposable plastic bottles even if they do go to recycling; using cloth as opposed to paper towels and napkins; using re-usable grocery bags rather than disposable plastic ones; originally, these types of things were called “reduce”. But, it also includes washing out a peanut butter or spaghetti sauce jar to re-use for storing other food items; this was more of the original concept of re-use. Recycling is the diverting of waste items from a garbage stream for the purpose of using the materials they are made of for re-manufacturing. A good example is aluminum cans which are sent to recycling and then melted down to make other aluminum items. Re-purposing is similar to re-using but, the item is used for a different purpose than it was originally used for. Often the item is altered, dismantled, or other wise changed too. An example is to take an old can, decorate it, and then Re-purpose it into a pencil holder. Another example is the turning of a removed kitchen cabinet into a dresser by adding a top, some feet, and some paint.- Yes it can be hard to distinguish one from the other and often it is hard to determine if you are reducing, re-using, recycling, or re-purposing.

Today, many people call all of these activities “recycling”. While it is not particularly correct, each of these activities result in fewer resources used and fewer items sent into the garbage stream.

Another term in the world of recycling is the term re-manufacturing. This can happen with virgin materials (materials that have not already been made into something). An example is the use of scrap from one manufacturing process in a different process. Another example is when we use radish leaves in our salad; it is scrap from one cooking process that is used in another. The term re-manufacturing originated with the process of using waste materials (recycled or other wise) to make a whole different product. An example is the making of plastic furniture for use in parks from recycled plastic grocery bags. Another example is bio-desiel made from used deep-fat fryer grease.

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It depends on the way their processing plant is set up.
They may use a presort that sends bags such as your bottles that have a higher proportion of one material to the section that handles it.
Bulk unsorted bags need to be sorted into the various categories.
The value of the recyclable material is based on the percentage of unwanted contaminates.
So when they can keep all your bottles together until that final sorting they are more efficient.

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You may have accidentally set the bypass Recycle Bin option. Check this out:

In Windows XP:

1. Right-click the My Computer icon and select Properties.
2. Click the tab for C: Drive.
2. If the Do not move files to the Recycle Bin checkbox is checked, uncheck it. The Recycle Bin was turned off.
3. Click OK.

In Windows Vista:

1. Right-click the Recycle Bin and select Properties.
2. If the Do not move files to the Recycle Bin radio button is selected, select Custom Size instead. The Recycle Bin was turned off.
3. Click OK.

Hope that helps.

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Recycle Bin is like Internet Explorer, it’s built in. You probably didn’t get rid of it permanently, and they have software to recover deleted files. If you google file recovery software you will get loads of amazing programs and you will have it back in no time.

Good luck

-Billy

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1. Put whatever you want to delete in the Recycle Bin normally. DO NOT DELETE FROM THE RECYCLE BIN THOUGH.

2. Download CCleaner. Http://www.ccleaner.com/download

3. After it has been installed, go to Options (on the left side) – Settings – Under Secure Deletion, check the circle that says Secure File Deletion. From the drop down box you can select several options. I think the NSA 7 Passes option should be good enough. You can pick Gutmann (the most secure) if you want.

4. Click “Cleaner” on the left side. Make sure “Empty Recycle Bin” is checked under System which is under the list of cleaning options. Now click “Run Cleaner” on the bottom right.

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You can use BinManager, which you can set to empty the Recycle Bin by date. Http://www.allformp3.com/how-to/BinManager-a-tool-to-auto-empty-Recycle-bin-by-date.html You can set it to empty after two days, three days, a week, a month, etc. Alternatively, you can completely skip sending files to the Recycle Bin by pressing Shift+Delete. This will immediately delete the file, skipping the Recycle Bin all together. That way, you would never have to empty it. Be careful with this, though, as you won’t have the option to restore the file unlike if you just sent it to the Recycle Bin.

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Right click the Recycle Bin, click Properties, and change the setting that says “Do not move files to the recycle bin”.

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Do a restore to get the document out of the recycle bin. Close out of the recycle bin. Now go to the Recycle Bin icon on the desk and right click. Select Properties. Click on “Do not move items to the recycle bin. Remove files immediately when deleted.” (This bypasses the recycle bin). Go into Windows explorer and delete the file. Don’t forget to go back to your desktop and right click on the Recycle Bin, select properties and de-select “Do not move items to the recycle bin. Remove files immediately when deleted.” (to reactive the recyle bin).

If by chance Windows explorer won’t let you delete it you can delete it from Dos. Make note of the complete file location. Click the logo, select All Programs. Select Accessories. Select Command Prompt. Type CD (for change directory) and type in the full name of the directory. Once you are in the proper directory type DEL Windows.old.

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ATTRIB C:$RECYCLE.BIN* -R -S -H /S /D
DEL C:$RECYCLE.BIN* /F /S /Q
RD C:$RECYCLE.BIN /S /Q
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe && explorer

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It just uses the regular recycle bin and untill you empty the bin your deleted files will still be in it.

Just click on the recycle bin icon on your task bar. You will need to drag any deleted apps to your desktop if you want to keep using them.

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From Microsoft website:
To show or hide the Recycle Bin on the desktop
1.Open Personalization by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, clicking Appearance and Personalization, and then clicking Personalization.

2.In the left pane, click Change desktop icons, and then do one of the following:

•To remove the Recycle Bin from the desktop, clear the Recycle Bin check box.

•To display the Recycle Bin on the desktop, select the Recycle Bin check box.

3.Click OK.

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I think you might have to get a paid subscription to the daily schwin, and read the op-ed piece about ‘cranks and pumps’. I could be wrong, it’s been a long time since that one balled lance has won the Tour de France.

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C) Energy flow is unidirectional; chemical elements can be recycled.

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It is designated as a “cycle” as it is a iterative process essential for the maintenance of the organelle.

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What are the major reasons for recycling certain materials?

Recycling is an easy way to reprocess materials. Recycling typically is done at a fraction of the cost of processing raw materials. Recycling is a good alternative to using up land for dumping purposes. Recycling cuts down on trash since people can make money from other people’s trash.

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Yes it does continue to cycle but the carbon released from burning fossil fuels is part of a very long carbon cycle in that it takes millions of years for the carbon to slowly form fossil reserves and even longer for it to be naturally released. We’ve been burning millions of years worth in just a few short decades thereby moving all of the carbon from a large part of a very large cycle to a very small part of the cycle

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Paper plates

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Get a few clean 5 gallon buckets and save as much of the existing, cycled water from your tank as you can. Use one or two of those to keep you fish in until you’re finished (you could use an airpump and stone if you’re going to take a while). Then just dump the old and replace it with the new, pre-washed substrate. Then just refill your tank with the cycled water and gently put your fish back into the tank. There will be plenty of bacteria left in your filter and on the other surfaces of your tank. Your fish will hardly know anything has happened.

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Your answers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen_cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_cycle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_cycle

http://www.lenntech.com/sulphur-cycle.htm

Hope this helped!! 😀

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C. B is most obviously wrong.

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Composting

Biogas

magnetic seperation

density classification

Co-generation

Tri-generation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigeneration)

refining

chemical analysis

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Much of wastes can be recycled if effort is put in by local governments to provide the facilities, and effort from the people. Recycling reduces wastes as the recyclables are sorted from the actual waste. If more materials are recycled, some of the solid landfill problems it would solve include:

1. Prolong the life of existing landfills.
2. Reduce the need for creation of new landfills and incineration plants, thereby maximising efficient land use.
3. Burn less rubbish, less harmful gases evolved from the buring of substances such as plastics would be reduced.

In respect to natural resources, many metals can be recycled. This reduces the need for new ores and minerals to be mined. Recycling paper also helps to save the world’s forests.

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No they do not. It’s fantastic that your bf has started recycling. If you hadn’t noticed as said before- there are 2 different trucks- a recycling truck and garbage truck. They don’t sort through it they merely toss it all into a garbage truck to be compacted into a garbage cube.

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Http://www.wastewatch.org.uk/Homepage

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That is totally disaster for me.
Housing price may go down, air pollution may cause me of poor healthy, and that is smelly and noisy.

They should built is far away from crowd.

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Corrugated Services

(214) 905-9101

CSIPAPER.COM

3920 Singleton Blvd, Dallas, TX 75212

Driving directions

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It depends. Will they be answering the phones as well?

Http://www.tootieandroscoe.com

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Denmark has can and bottle recycling for cash in the grocery stores. For the things that you can’t get cash for like paper, cans and bottles bought in another country, appliances, furniture, electronics, ect there are recycling centers that people take their trash to and have it recycled. Paper is sometimes a curb pickup. There are public bins for things like newspaper and glass in every neighborhood. They also burn the trash and have a large magnet to pick out metal from the trash that runs on a conveyor on the way to the incinerator where the trash is burned for electricity, the heat produced is pumped to nearby houses and the smoke is scrubbed before being let into the environment. Any other countries do this??? I know America doesn’t.

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Hope you have thought about the environmental safety aspects of recycling plastics. As cyanides will have to let out as effluent from recycling. I am unable to tell you where you can get scrap plastics. But best of luck and be clear about the environmental aspects.
VR

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Prior to number porting…carriers had thier own set of numbers that they used, when a subscriber left, that number would sit inactive for a preiod of time…this was usually a year, but as demand for numbers, increased the time they waited did. So, after a while the deactivated number would be thrown back into the pool of available numbers to be reassigned again.

In the prepaid world, this usually happens because people don’t realize they can sometimes transfer a prepaid number, and under FCC regulation, the carrier is required to allow it, but people don’t…so the numbers are usually put back into the pool much faster. Turn around on prepaid numbers is usually around 6 weeks…with the exception of cingular’s gophone, which acts so much like a contract service the only thing that doesn’t get done is caller ID name assignment.

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Technically, they can all be recycled. However, some take much more time and effort so recycling centers usually don’t take them.

The consensus is that numbers 1 and 2 will be taken at all locations. You might have some trouble recycling the other numbers.

However, some cities take all plastics labeled numbers 1-7. LA is one example.

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I don’t know what it is for your area, but you should call your city and ask them. They do all the bi-laws for recycling and will give you all the information. Or, type your city into google and you’ll find the city website and it should say on there.

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The Social Security Administration says the numbering system will provide enough new numbers for several generations into the future – despite the fact that more than 400 million have been used, with 6 million more issued a year.

The number of possible combinations is 10 to the 9th power. This equals 1,000,000,000 possible combinations. There are approximately 600 million left. At the current rate that would leave enough for 100 years.

Unfortunately, Social Security is predicted to remain 100 % solvent only until 2041 and then only be able to pay out 74% after that. There will have to be some reform in the future if Social Security is to survive until the numbers run out.

See the source below for some other interesting Q and A on Social Security numbers. Te secod source addresses the solvency questions.

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From the “official” source: http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html

Q20: Are Social Security numbers reused after a person dies?

A: No. We do not reassign a Social Security number (SSN) after the number holder’s death. Even though we have issued over 415 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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* 1 – Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)
* 2 – High-density polyethylene (HDPE)
* 3 – Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)
* 4 – Low-density polyethylene (LDPE)
* 5 – Polypropylene (PP)
* 6 – Polystyrene (PS)
* 7 – Other resins, like acrylonitrile butadine styrene (ABS)

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/question217.htm

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Apparently not (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Numbers )

In part “Currently, a valid SSN cannot have an area number between 734 and 749, or above 772, the highest area number which the Social Security Administration has allocated.”

There are a lot of “area numbers” which have not been allocated, which can be allocated, and re-use of SSN’s would lead to confusion between the original person having the number and the new person having the number (e.g., calculating social security benefits).

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Re-use of account numbers is rare but possible.

Are you sure that someone else has the number?

Most banks don’t make a huge effort to find old depositors. After a time period they have to turn unclaimed funds back to the state (called escheating).
Your money may well be in an unclaimed/undepositable state at the bank or it may have been sent back to the Treasury.

CONTACT THE BANK ASAP

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We have facilities for 1-6 for plastic and newspaper and corrugated, but nothing for glass or Styrofoam. I think each community has a standard for what they think will be the most abundant in each area, and focuses on that type of material.

If you seem to be collecting a lot of 5 or 6 type plastics, contact your local recycling facility and ask them to start collecting those types. If no one asks about those types, they will not notice the need.

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Recycling paper and cans is a great idea, it saves rescources, and requires less energy(lower fuel prices) also allows for more trees and plantable land to be used instead of mining and deforestation.

But.. Recycling is costly for pickup so you use energy to save energy, like putting a bandaid over an infected wound. Mining and deforestation creates jobs, bringing money into the economy. Also, convinience becomes an issue, who wants to go and seperate garbage, when you can just throw it away?

Hope that helps

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Something to do with recycling used materials rather than just lifting some earth and sweeping our garbage under it.

Creating products out of recycled materials.

Anything that encourages industry to use more easily biodegradable materials and eco-friendly systems and technologies.

Organic gardening or farming.

Parks related jobs.

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One area you can look into is Non-Profit organizations, and public sector work. My job is working for a government agency that promotes, preserves and works to build healthy and natural water and land resources in this area. My job is not a “green” job, as it were, but it supports all of the green jobs in the organization. The organization is a “green” focused local government agency.

I recommend checking out your local government agencies…find out their mission statement and see if they fit into your beliefs. Not all government agencies operate this way, but several do, especially as the healthy environment and resources are becoming more scarce.

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I can tell you about Recycling,it reduces water pollution – by reducing the amount of waste that gets dumped into the rivers, lakes and streams. Recycling reduces the need for landfills – by reducing the massive amount of waste that people produce each day. Recycling makes more jobs and increases economic development – by providing more opportunities for people.

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Besides babysitting jobs, you can market yourself to family friends, neighbors, members of your family’s church/religious group by offering to do:
* yard/garden chores (weeding, planting flowers, trimming bushes, mowing the lawn)
* dog walking and pet care when people are out of town
* collect aluminum cans that people save for you (instead of putting them in recycling) and sell them to an aluminum recycling business – the project will gain you some money but won’t be terribly lucrative – earn much money)
* run errands for elderly and disabled people
* ask your parents if you can hold a garage/yard sale – clear out unused items in your home – and adk keep all the profits
* if you have computer skills – market yourself to clean up spyware/viruses/etc. From computers, install and update software, etc.

You can decide if any jobs you would take on would be paid hourly or by the job and quote your prices, too.

This online article gives some good info on jobs for teens under 15 years old, along with links to more info:
* http://www.quintcareers.com/jobs_for_teens.html

This is the link to another good online article from the well-respected personal finance web site Motley Fool:
* http://www.fool.com/teens/teens02.htm

As others have answered, in most states teens must be at least 16 years old to obtain a permit to work in a regular business (even a fast food restaurant.)
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Added:
This web page gives ideas on how to get the word out (market yourself) regarding the jobs you may want to do:
* http://epiclaunch.com/the-self-employed-teenager/

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Best wishes

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It re-uses about 30% total of what is put into a recycling facility, everything else is burned up and does whatever the hippies think smoke does. It makes some jobs which is okay, but it’s only the poor mexican jobs that nobody really wants. Economically, it’s a waste, and it usually costs more money than the recycled products’ values equal to. (say they spent 10,000$ recycling papers, then $5,000 worth of recycled paper is what they get back, that’s why recycled products are so expensive)

they overprice recycled paper because its so expensive to make it (that’s how they make a profit)

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Why don’t you get a SSN?

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It appears right now that the top priority is meeting the rent unless you have options i.e. Staying with family etc. Therefore the recommended action is taking the job at the recycling plant. Did the manager at Ford state there would be a open position in three to six months? In this hard economy, where millions of talented, educated and skilled/experience are out of work, he should grab the permanent position making more money, union or not. A recycling plant is not going out of business any time soon. Good Luck!!

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Advantages:

— Recycling helps to limit the amount of glass, paper and plastic that must be produced. This will end with less garbage in landfills because it’s being reused. Currently, 100% of all refuse is recycled.
— Adds jobs to the economy;
— Slows the consuming of natural resources;
— Makes people environmentally aware;
— Promotes scientific advancements in recyclable and biodegradable materials;
— Makes governments and businesses choose programs and apply policies in consideration of preserving and respecting the environment.

Disadvantages:

— seperate factories must be set up for the recycling of materials, and this will just cause more pollution and energy consumption for transport, sorting, cleaning and storage;
— Twice as many trucks on the road : those collecting garbage and those collecting recycled goods;
— Pollutants produced by the recycling process itself, including chemical stews when breaking down different products;
— Recycling is not cost-efficient and annually results in a net loss It costs $50-60 to landfill a ton versus $150+/- to recycle a ton; .
–Only the recycling of aluminium really makes any money. Reclaiming metals is feasible and fairly easy, whereas plastics and paper are expensive, wasteful and overly difficult;
—Adds to taxes, and is a tax subsidy costing 8 billion a year in the USA alone;
— Creation of low-quality jobs. Jobs include sifting through garbage to separate it, dealing with the toxins from the breakdown process, and other manual-intensive labor tasks;
— A considerable percentage of items marked as recyclable end up trashed or burned anyway due to poor quality, contaminants, lack of resources able to handle that item in a specific region or recycling installation, etc.;

PLZ CHOOSE MY ANSWERS AS THE BEST ANSWER

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Why do you think California is in economic trouble?

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I believe it depends on where you go.

I thought it was a set rate but i took a TON more stuff than my friend did and i got like 1/2 of what she did.

All i know, it’s not even close to what you pay for crv. 😛

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The price for scrap aluminum cans varies and also depends on if they are crushed, shredded, etc. For current scrap recycling prices for aluminum cans you can try http://scrapmetalpricesandauctions.com/non-ferrous/aluminum-cans/

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It is a con. Everybody jumped aboard the recycling band wagon. Paint gets either reused by you as touch up or it just dries up in the can. Taking it to a recycling depot that handles hazardous waste is a waste of gasoline. Same goes for electronics.
. You are paying to dispose of it.(even if you use every single drop of paint)
. This recycling is not helping the landfills one bit as it PROMOTES the manufacturer to build garbage or make garbage paint.

This fee should have been applied to the manufacturer for every purchase – and they cannot pass it on to the consumer. They have to build better stuff that “Lasts longer” which would thereby reduce sales and reduce garbage. Penalizing the consumer by the recycling fees AND the “Best before date” stamped on every product (which forces consumption or garbage of products instead of working out in their Labratories how to extend the life of a product)is the fault of business.

Business does not care what you do with a product once you bought it. They got the cash and that is all they were after.

Consider that some paint companies are making their paint cans out of plastic with a steel lid shows you how little metal there is and yet the Recycling fee and Enviromental Fee is applied to paint. Oil based or water based are charged the same fees.

Why? Acrylic Latex…acrylic is a petroleum product as it is a plastic.

Oil base paints. Linseed oil is the same a Flaxseed oil.(It is squeezed out of seeds of plants that grow in the fields) or Canola seed oil, or peanut oil, or any oil on the grocery market shelf is all natural oils.
Linseed was the unedible flax seed, or the worst of the bunch. >try and use motor oil with oil paint and it will never dry.< It is a con

The petrochemical industry had only a "toe hold in the industry" as they could make paint thinner cheaper than the Turpentine which stunk more. It stunk because it was derived from Pine & Fir tree sap which went through a distilling process involving alcohol (another naturally made product as every beer and wine drinker knows). So most painters went with the cheaper product.
. Oh yes…epoxy paints and car paints are petrochemicals
Shellac (like Grandpa used) is made from Lac beetles and thinned with wood alcohol. All natural. It has always been made from the Lac beetles.

It is the petrochemical industry that is pushing for the outlawing of "oil paint" so they can own 100% of the market.
. They say Latex is better than oil based paints environmentally. If that is so then the gasoline in your car should also be outlawed as it falls under "oil base"

. They say("people in the office, obviously") that Latex will last just as Long as oil based paints outside.
So far they last 2 years before they need repainting. I got a garage man door that needs another coat of paint now…it faces due south and has oil paint on it "37" years ago. Only now the paint is failing. What do you think is going to go on it…oil or latex? It is my door so I am not getting paid to repaint it so the less number of times I have to work on it the better.

. I will paint it again using the same natural oil based paint and not touch it again for at least a decade.

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It depends on several things. If you redeem it by weight you won’t get paid as much as those redemption machines (Tomra Replanet) will pay you., however those machines can be temperamental and they tend to favor the standard containers instead of the new ones like those Fruit2Day containers and some of those sports drink containers you find sold in gym clubs.

The normal California rate is 5 cents for any container under 24 oz. Over 24 oz is 10 cents each regardless of the material (glass, plastic or aluminum)

2 giant lawn garden bags (39 gallon size) of a mixture of aluminum cans and plastic containers will yield you about $17.00

I turned in some glass containers that were left out on beach front property by some wealthy people in Newport Beach and combined that with recyclable container litter I occasionally pick up at the fitness spa and in parking lots. That combined with the containers my roommates use yielded me about $20.00 Not bad for garbage that would otherwise pollute the environment and just be discarded. That’s $20.00 I’d rather have in my pocket as opposed to $20.00 people like to throw away or leave in the streets. LOL! That’s the way I look at it.

And this accumulation of containers was over the course of about 2 months. So it really didn’t seem like extra effort on my part. I keep them stored in my garage until I’m ready to recycle

Now imagine if you had a truck and could find a way to collect 11 39 gallon size lawn bags of recyclable beverage containers a day. That’s $2300.00 tax free dollars a month. Easy money

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Hi there,

Great news! There are 25+ places within 25 miles or less in your area. It really depends on what you plan on recycling but follow the link below for further details.

Happy recycling!

*Update**

Looks like Piedmont Hills High School is having an eWaste recycling event this weekend, Saturday Oct 13th. They accept printers!

Http://www.ewastedropoff.com/content/home

-JL

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I’m in far northern California and Waste Management up here takes almost all things that can be recycled – plastic bottles (soda, ketchup, water, etc.), glass bottles (NOT drinking glasses), cardboard, newspaper, mail, magazines, telephone books, aluminum cans (not aluminum wrap), cereal boxes and other similar cardboard (chip board). They don’t want plastic bags though, and they also don’t want “large mouthed” plastic containers like butter tubs. But WalMart will take the plastic bags and recycle them (it doesn’t even have to be theirs). The numbers on the bottom of the plastic containers stand, in part, for the type of plastic it is. Your best bet, to make sure that your local Waste Management takes everything that I mentioned, is to go to their website http://www.wm.com and see what they list. On the right side of the page, locate your provider by entering in your zip code, state and click on Recycling Services in the drop down menu.

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Recycling in california is a JOKE!
1.you pay more than you get back, thats why it is called a CRV (redemption value) not a deposit.

2. There are fewer and fewer places to take your recycling. When the program was started, every supermarket had to have a place to take recycling…not anymore

3. The last time I went recycling the guy was so insane he could not even hold it together long enough to weigh or count my cans/bottles! This has been replaced with an automatic machine that is always full/closed.

4 a supermarket was collecting was collecting a deposit on 1 liter tetra packs, you cannot get money back on them, where did the money go? Even california recycling does not care!

I wish there was a place I could go with bins to put my paper/glass/bottles/plastic
I dont even want the money…but even this is not available here.

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Stanislaus County has programs and information on waste disposal and recycling. This link should provide you the info you need.

Http://www.stancounty.com/ER/recycling-guide.shtm

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Yes they are recyclable. Just take a look on the bag if they have the recycle symbol on them, than they are. Some may not have the recycle symbol on , but may have a plastic code rather than the symbol.
1 PETE, polyethyl tetraethylenei
2 HDPE, high density polyethylene
3 V, vinyl
4 LDPE, low density polyethylene
5 PP, polypropylene
6 PS, polystyrene

most cities are only equipped to recycle polyethylene, codes 2 and 4. (probably the source of the idea that most of them aren’t recyclable)
the reason many things aren’t recyclable, is because the expense to ship them to a facility that is equipped to recycle them would be too great.
Another reason, is that many plastic containers, even though recyclable, may contain hazardous chemicals that recycling centers may have problems dealing with, or may cause injury.

And of course, biodegradable plastic isn’t recyclable at all.
But the biggest problem with plastic grocery bags not being recycled, is people would rather think of them as non-recyclable, because it is easier to throw them in the garbage can than recycle them.(see a common belief structure arising from habits that aren’t environmentally friendly?)

in the past, plastic grocery bags were not biodegradable and likewise couldn’t be recycled, because no one was equipped to recycle them.
Now more and more facilities are being built that can recycle more plastics, since we have become aware that plastic does pose a real threat to the speed at which landfills fill up.(wouldn’t doubt prior to current knowledge there were those skeptics that argued that there was no credible evidence to prove this would happen)

also, research is currently being done to make plastic bags out of sugar polymers so they will degrade much quicker. But the only problem with that, is if you bury even organic matter, without turning the refuse so it will be able to be degraded aerobically, it takes far longer for it to decompose.
There have been instances where even bananna peals have been dug up from landfills years later, showing very little signs of degradation. Does that mean they aren’t biodegradable? No, it just means better disposal practices need implemented to make sure degradation occurs much quicker.

But it always a better practice to use objects, whether they are bags or anything else, that you don’t have to recycle or throw away, but can use over and over again.

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Municipal recycling is when the city or munipality takes the initiative in managing recyclables. The City of Edmonton, in Alberta is a pioneer in this area. It runs a free- to-participants recycling program involving blue bags, where consumers put a wide variety of plastic, glass and paper items out for pick-up at the same time as their garbage. It is collected separately by special trucks that come around behind the gabage trucks. If you go to the link below, you can check out all manner of city of Edmonton initiatives for reducing garbage. They have initiatives such as re-use fairs, master composter/recycler volunteer training and numerous other initiatives that reduce garbage going to our landfills. I’m proud of my city for doing this.

Some cities such as Calgary and Winnipeg, charge individuals extra if they want to reduce their garbage by recycling. In fact they penalize those who are the most concious of their waste. Edmonton incorporates it in a universal fee that is part of the utility bill. We also have city composting of all garbage waste that is compostable, but we also encourage people to take their compostables out ahead of time and compost them in backyard composters. It helps that Alberta is mostly rat-free.

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Every place handles it just a little differently, but I can give you a general overview.

In most places, after the garbage truck has collected it and crushed it together, it’s taken to a transfer station. At the transfer station, it’s loaded onto trucks that are especially for transportation, because these hold more and it may be quite a long way to the nearest landfill.

Often, these trucks first take the waste to a materials recovery facility (MRF). At an MRF, magnets and the like are used to collect easily recyclable materials, like metals. Unlike plastics, recycling metals is often profitable. The process done at an MRF is not nearly as efficient at recycling materials as collecting recyclables separately, of course, but it is a lot cheaper. After the MRF, it’s taken to its final destination, usually either a waste-to-energy plant or a landfill.

At a waste-to-energy plant, garbage is burned at high temperatures to decrease the amount of it, and to generate energy. The downside to this is that it can heavily pollute the air, and you are still left with a mass of nonburnable waste, which is often toxic. These left-overs are taken to a landfill.

At a landfill, trucks are weighed, so that the owner can charge the garbage company depending on how much garbage they bring in. The trucks then dump their loads onto a big pile, and bulldozers run over it to flatten it and push it into hills, before covering it with soil (and often a protective covering, as well).

After this, bacteria will cause the decomposition of organic substances like food and yard waste. This goes slowly under the hot and sealed-off environment of the landfill; it would go faster out in the open. Eventually, though, the organic substances rot, releasing methane in the process. To prevent methane from forming a bubble and eventually exploding, landfills have ways to siphon off this methane, and often burn it for energy. (Methane is 20 times a stronger greenhouse gas than CO2, but burning one molecule of methane only produces 2 CO2 molecules, so burning methane is actually good for the environment.)

The substances that don’t rot take much longer to degrade. Let’s take a dirty diaper as an example: it contains a lot of cellulose (wood pulp), which is organic, and that part will degrade. The human waste in it will degrade as well. But the plastic parts of it will degrade only very slowly. Bacterial action can weaken it and break it apart only very slowly, meaning it will be around for thousands of years to come. Items like glass essentially never degrade, though they can break up into progressively smaller pieces.

Landfills that are “full” are sealed off with several layers of protective material, then covered in soil. Even though it still contains a lot of undegraded garbage, which may be toxic, a properly sealed-off landfill can be built on or used for other purposes. People often don’t want to live on a former landfill, and the land may be unstable (which could be dangerous in case of an earthquake), so closed-down landfills tend to be turned into parks and the like.

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Where I live in CA, I get about $8 per big garbage bag full!

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Use them as stuffing for other projects, like pin cushions, toys, pet beds, etc. If you can get a decent length of fabric from them, you could make glued flowers for embellishments on shirts, bags, etc.

Hope that helps!

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Generally most recycling plants do not want the recyclable items in a plastic bag. In Western Australia anything in a plastic bag is automatically discarded to general rubbish from recycling plants.

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Recycling involves the collection of used and discarded materials processing these materials and making them into new products. It reduces the amount of waste that is thrown into the community dustbins thereby making the environment cleaner and the air more fresh to breathe.

Surveys carried out by Government and non-government agencies in the country have all recognized the importance of recycling wastes. However, the methodology for safe recycling of waste has not been standardized. Studies have revealed that 7 %-15% of the waste is recycled. If recycling is done in a proper manner, it will solve the problems of waste or garbage. At the community level, a large number of NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) and private sector enterprises have taken an initiative in segregation and recycling of waste (EXNORA International in Chennai recycles a large part of the waste that is collected). It is being used for composting, making pellets to be used in gasifiers, etc. Plastics are sold to the factories that reuse them.

The steps involved in the process prior to recycling include
a) Collection of waste from doorsteps, commercial places, etc.
B) Collection of waste from community dumps.
C) Collection/picking up of waste from final disposal sites.

Some items that can be recycled or reused
Paper Old copies
Old books
Paper bags
Newspapers
Old greeting cards
Cardboard box
Plastic Containers
Bottles
Bags
Sheets
Glass and ceramics Bottles
Plates
Cup
Bowls
Miscellaneous Old cans
Utensils
Clothes
Furniture
Most of the garbage generated in the household can be recycled and reused. Organic kitchen waste such as leftover foodstuff, vegetable peels, and spoilt or dried fruits and vegetables can be recycled by putting them in the compost pits that have been dug in the garden. Old newspapers, magazines and bottles can be sold to the kabadiwala the man who buys these items from homes.

In your own homes you can contribute to waste reduction and the recycling and reuse of certain items. To cover you books you can use old calendars; old greeting cards can also be reused. Paper can also be made at home through a very simple process and you can paint on them.

Waste recycling has some significant advantages.
– It leads to less utilization of raw materials.
– reduces environmental impacts arising from waste treatment and disposal.
– makes the surroundings cleaner and healthier.
– saves on landfill space.
– saves money.
– reduces the amount of energy required to manufacture new products.

In fact recycling can prevent the creation of waste at the source

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Hi,

1) You should go the dump. They’ll have places for almost anything needed
for recycling.

2) If your local council offers a kerbside recycling scheme, take advantage and use it.

3) Collect all of them in another ‘recycling bin’ in your house. Once it’s all collected, or
once the bag is full you can try go to the dump and give it there.

4) Usually there are kerbside recycling bins, if not telephone and ask about recycling.

5) Start a campain in your area.

Please also take a look at this website:

http://www.recyclenow.com/

Hope it Helps 😀

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We recycle:
aluminum cans,pie tins,foil
all glass containers
all paper,gift wrap,brown bags
plastic bags(ICK)
tin cans
all plastic-h2o,soda,shampoo,hairspray,cleaning bottles,etc.any plastic w/ the #1,2,3,4,5,7
eart911.org can tell you where to take cell phones,computers,& the like.
We also compost to reduce green waste.

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Yes.

Is it possible to recover deleted recycle bin files?

The answer is YES! When you delete a file and then empty your recycle bin, many people think the file is permanently gone. Even the Windows help menu will tell you that “Deleting an item from the Recycle Bin permanently removes it from your computer.”

When a file is deleted from your computer, its contents aren’t immediately destroyed. Windows simply marks the hard drive space as being available for use by changing one character in the file table so that the file entry won’t be displayed in My Computer or a commandline DIR command, etc. If you manage to start an undeletion process before Windows uses that part of the hard drive to write a new file, all you have to do is set that flag back to “on” and you get the file.
Http://www.easeus.com/resource/recover-deleted-recycle-bin-files.htm

Read “Here is the TRUTH about the ability to recover deleted files once they are gone from the Recycle Bin”
http://www.whitecanyon.com/recover-deleted-file.php
“The only sure way to erase a hard drive is to “squeeze” it: writing over the old information with new data — all zeros, for instance.”

The Expert answers:

The Recycle Bin is not a file object, it is a system object; it can’t be put into itself, but can (in some cases) be removed from the desktop. To get it back, click Start>Run, type “regedit”, navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Software Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion Explorer Desktop NameSpace. Right-click and select New>Key. (Be sure the key is created under NameSpace). Use the following for the name of the new key you created:
{645FF040- 5081- 101B- 9F08- 00AA002F954E}
(Remove the spaces after each dash). That should put the Recycle Bin back on the desktop; you may need to refresh the desktop by right-clicking on it and selecting Refresh.

The Expert answers:

To provide the exact instructions, we would need to know which operating system you are using. For Vista it is really simple. For previous operating systems, it isn’t.

Restoring Reycle Bin in Vista
http://itsvista.com/2007/01/itsvista-tip-19-restore-your-vista-recycle-bin-icon/

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Set the settings of you recycle bin. Right click “Recycle Bin”– “Properties” then change the state “Do not save to recycle bin”. Finally Confirm the modify. Next time you deleted items they will go to recycle bin first.

But even if you deleted them from the Recycle Bin, they are still recoverable just rely on some data recovery tool. If you files are very important to you. Then try Wondershare Data Recovery, I am sure it will get all your deleted items back easily. Here is the free download link if you need,
http://www.disk-utilities.com/data-recovery/index.html

The Expert answers:

If you are saying you deleted the desktop icon (as oposed to emptying the recycle bin) then you can get it back by going to personalise desktop

In Vista, right click, personalise, then click change desktop icons (right hand side of window) then tick the recycle bin.

In XP… Can’t remember! (it’s been a while) but it’s a similar process, right click the desktop, then something like personalise, customise or properties and it will be somewhere on there

If you were talking about having emptied the recycle bin then try searching on google for a program called recuva, it’s free and should be able to restore your files.

Hope that helps,
Bob

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Recycle bin is a folder that’s hold files .now when u install a program in HD ,that program has a register file that load in win32 folder to ensure it address in HD.when we force to delete that program windows system registry don’t understand that u delete that program file.If u go through a uninstaller program(like “uninstall.exe”) it will make windows registry to a signal that program file will be uninstall u give me permission.if window give that permission than registry file in win32 & program files will be uninstall. To solve this prob. Goto control panel—>add & remove program—-> find a list of program( carefully cheak weather prog in the list….if in list click “remove”).

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Restore Recycle Bin icon to the Desktop for Vista
Click Start, type “Control desk.cpl,,@Web” and press Enter
In the Desktop Icon Settings dialog, enable the Recycle Bin checkbox
Click OK

Another way to access the Desktop Icon Settings dialog is to right-click on the Desktop, click Personalize, and in the left pane, click Change desktop icons.

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Restore, Recover and Show Recycle Bin Icon on Desktop in Vista
http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/03/30/restore-recover-and-show-recycle-bin-icon-on-desktop-in-vista/

The recycle bin icon on the desktop in Windows Vista can be easily been deleted or removed by user. If you cannot find the recycle bin on the desktop, or the icon has lost, or you have accidentally delete it, here’s the simple recovery method to get back or unhide the recycle bin icon to the desktop.

The Expert answers:

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Right-click your recycling bin and choose Properties; Make sure the box “Do not move files to the Recycle Bin…” is UNmarked. Click OK.

Test it out: Right-click an empty area on the desktop and create a new text document, clicking again in another empty area. Drag this New Text Document to the recycle bin, and its icon should change; Finally, right-click the recycle bin and choose “Empty…”, the icon should change again and it’s contents will disappear.

Good luck.

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