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Hi, create a system restore on a certain date i.e the day b4 u erased it from ur bin and that shud reset ur pc from the day b4 with that u shud b able 2 recover wot u put in there x

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1) Right click on the desktop,
2) Click “personalize”,
3) On the on the left hand side of the pop up, click “Change desktop icons”,
4) Another pop up will appear, tick the recycle bin.
Done =)

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You dont need to delete the recycle bin, you can just tell it to stop putting stuff in it. Do this :
1) Right click on the recycle bin icon on your desktop
2) Click ‘Properties’
3) Tick the box that says ‘Do not move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files emmidiately when deleted’.
That should fix the problem.
Good luck StarWarsKnower

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Of course,it is possible to save a copy of your files, Photos or unwanted files to a CD?DVD using nero7 or other softwares for burning CD/DVD. It much better if you use DVD RW so you can erase it in case you don’t want to keep anymore the files and add other files.

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Wow, this is tricky. Especially since you waited so long. Recovery may be possible but at this stage it’s far from guaranteed. You might want to try a program called PC Inspector File Recovery. I’ve used it a couple times to get back deleted files.

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You can set whether to use the recycle bin or not in the Recycle Bin properties. Right click it, and select “Properties”, and you can select “Do not move files to the recycle bin”.

They will then delete completely, bypassing the bin.

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Recycle bin is permanent.

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Use TweakUI
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Edit: before you remove it you can create a shortcut to it and put the shortcut in a folder somewhere. You’ll still be able to right-click the shortcut to empty it.

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Defragging has nothing to do with your recycle bin. To clean out your system go to your Start Menu ..all programs. Accessories.. System tools.. And choose disk cleanup.

Also sounds like you need to run a spyware program as well. Spybot Search and Destroy is a good free one

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This changes with each different area and Waste Management company.
I would suggest that you contact your local Waste management company and ask them your questions.
The ones in my area are willing to answer any questions that i might have, however it is a very small community and I am personal friend with many of their employees.

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Get some water tests kits (pH, oxygen, etc) and test the local waterways (streams, rivers, and lake) over a period of time (maybe 2-3 times a week for a month). Research things like acid mine drainage, acid rain, fertilizer run off from farm fields and the like. Guarantee with a well put together project on this you will have a very good chance of making it to state. Email me (tfagrell@yahoo.com) if you need help, always a pleasure to help a fellow science fair researcher.

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That really depends on the arrangement between your apt. Complex and the trash pickup company. You should ask either of them, but don’t be surprised if they don’t discuss their finances with you. If they don’t, tell the trash company that you have 3 small dumpsters at your house and you’d like to know how much it would cost to pick them up. Then they’ll tell you.

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Ye s australia had also benn doing the battery waste management. But most of us don’t knw.actually australia has not sufficient laws about this, as the waste f the batter is reused in some other purposes.

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Firstly, you need to work out how much money you have available yourself by raiding your savings. Ask friends and family if they want to invest too.

Next, put a business plan together and take it to the bank – if you satisfy their criteria, they’ll lend you the money you need.

Essentially what they want to know from your business plan is that it’s a viable business, you’ve planned how to make profits and that you will be able to pay the money back. They also want to know that you have enough confidence in the business to invest your own money into the operation.

If this fails, try business angels – these are guys who invest in good ideas. You’ll need a good business plan and a good idea of how to sell your idea. Have a look at http://www.sellinggame.co.uk for tips on sales techniques

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Source reduction

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Willy nelson

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Enforcing everyone to recycle would not only help our planet to be cleaner and last longer, it would also, however, establish immediate relief to our economy. Not only would recycling stimulate our economy by creating over one million jobs and over thirty seven billion dollars in payrolls annually, it would also create five jobs for every one job created in waste management. Although these benefits are quite significant, recycling would help our world in so many more ways, and start to heal our environment of the damage people have been creating for centuries, once and for all!

—i changed it a little bit, and added stuff to help it flow…hope it helped!

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That mostly covers it.

Perhaps easier to repair would help.
And use minimal packaging and use recyclable materials.

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Nothing.

Plastic for recycling has little cash value due to no markets and such a low price for virgin plastic resins.

The soft plastic used for those items you are saving has no market at all. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

If you want to stay on top of those market developments, you can find them at these websites with a little research.
Http://www.wastenews.com
http://www.resourcerecyclingmagazine.com

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Money lots and lots of money
environmental reviews
do you have enough raw materials
do you have purchasers for the finished product
research recycling programs in the U.S.
Look at the big boys and how they do it
and don’t forget lots of money

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Well i think you need to visit http://www.alpcorecycling.com/ here i have found all kind of recycling ways. I think i helped you

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I usually give them a quick rinse, but I don’t wash them like the dishes. It seems cleaner, but is probably not necessary. Anyway, all water is recycled. Water is a renewable resource that gets recycled by rain falling.

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To be honest you could get a round $20 with two loaded black bags. I do!!

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Start with the Public School district. They already have the infrastructure in place. Start using their facilities to campaign your good

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It doesn’t matter what condition a bottle is in, all redemption centers should take them.

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Our recycling doesn’t need to be seperated. They just dump it all into the same truck.

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I’d say that the only way to find out for sure what you should do is ask your own recycling centre / council / curbside collection team because it really does depend where they’re going and what they’re used for. The answer given by one council could easily differ from that given by another, because they have signed up with different companies for the final disposal.

My local centre says they want the caps off so that the bottles can be crushed with lower use of energy – but obviously I want to crush the bottles before I take them to the recycling centre (to save storage space and allow me to take more on one trip) so I usually crush them then put the caps back on (otherwise they just pop back out to their original size!).

So I’m afraid they get them with caps on from me.

It is true that the caps use a different plastic (most drink bottles are polyethylene terepthalate, caps are often polypropylene or even harder plastics) and in some circumstances they’d need to be separated – but I suspect that most recycled plastic goes into applications where the mix doesn’t matter much. After all they probably also get different bottles (washing up liquid or shampoo is probably in polyethylene, some things have to be in multi-layered plastics to provide different properties such as an oxygen barrier, acid resistance etc.) as well.

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First off, contact your local council and see what recycling facilities are available in your area.

Then, sort out your recycling according to that. You might like to segregate paper, cardboard, tins, drinks cans, glass and plastics into separate containers.

Try not to buy more plastic/whatever than you need to, and it’ll make your job easier. Unless you have huge amounts of stuff to be recycled, a bin won’t be necessary. And anything that you do have can be compressed down to take up less space.

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Dream on…your never going to make $1000 a month recycling cans and doing odd jobs. At the current rate, you would need to recycle nearly 3000 POUNDS of cans EVERY month to make your rent. Good luck…enjoy being homeless!

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I work in the recycling and waste sector in a city council. I don’t think I would have got my job without the volunteering I did at BTCV (British Trust of Conservation Volunteers). It shows passion and dedication and there are lots of environmental groups out there.
I did a 5 month, full time stint but I’m sure even a few weekends would show that you have a greater understanding of sustainability.
You also get skills such as leadership, teamwork and project planning that all look good on the CV and interviewers like to talk about them.

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Ok, where does paper come from? Trees, which are a renewable resource. Because paper companies need to have trees to make paper, in developed, non-tropical nations (tropical woods are no good for paper) like the US, we actually plant more trees than we cut every year. And, making paper doesn’t release the CO2 that’s trapped by the trees – recycling does (the bleaching process releases trapped gasses). Now, it’s true that making recycled paper takes 60% less energy than virgin paper. But, if you figure every tree cut down is replaced almost immediately, you’re actually reducing CO2 levels by throwing away paper instead of recycling it – there’s a cost-benefit analysis to be done.

Ok, so what are the other benefits of using virgin paper over recycled? Recycling paper isn’t really environmentally friendly when you consider all the chemicals used to clean, bleach and then reconstruct the paper. What does throwing it away do? Well, it degrades, the CO2 returns to the soil where it is consumed by other plant life and removed from the atmosphere. Plus, you’re providing jobs for thousands of Americans.

And did you know that clear cutting forests which are then replanted is actually beneficial for the wildlife? As long as buffers are left around water sources (to ensure the integrity of the soil) clear cutting will increase the diversity of the forest (the same effect as a forest fire, but more controlled).

So, I don’t recycle paper. I do recycle non-renewable resources like metals and plastics, but I see no need to counter-act natural CO2 reduction methods.

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Hi! The best way to find out the educational requirements for working there would be to ask the manager or take a look at their job opening listings on sites like indeed.com and simplyhired.com. Good luck! 🙂

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1. B)

2. C)

3. D) Never, the bin men take all of it. You didn’t give this option.

4. C) 0 mins only. We don’t go to the recycling centre!

5. D) We don’t go, the bin men take ALL of it. You didn’t give this option.

6. C)

7. C)

8. C)

9. C) Yes, we put ALL our recycling in the recycling bin.

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Adding to the above, contact your local recycling companies to see if they have a partnership program like this one. Http://www.hotfrog.com/Companies/Community-Recycling

There are benefit for members as this volunteer activity (make it an official school club) may be listed on resumes, job applications and college applications.

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This is what I did in Grade 11: we set-up bins all around the schl, like in the places where we thought people would dump the most trash (cafeteria, one bin in each corridor, entrance foyer, etc.), to collect stuff like cans, plastic bottles, & paper. We then sold them to the recycling facility monthly, put the funds aside, & then donated them to the SPCA at the end.

I think it’s a great how we benefitted the environment, school, & the charity organisation as we managed to help the school get rid of its garbage in a more sensible & useful way, plus we helped the recycling facility by collecting stuff for them, AND we contributed to the charity organisation (SPCA) by donating our funds to them. (:

We stopped in Grade 12 (final year) as we were too busy though, & passed it on to the new Grade 11s. It’s like a cycle lol.

All the best with yr project!

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Its the process of making new products out of used products, recycling helps preserve natural resources such as wood, cotton etc. The recycling has numerous economic benefits too; it creates cheaper raw material thus lower production cost and low prices to customers. Recycling is also a huge industry which has created many jobs.

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Check out the seb site referenced for sources of recycling in Arizona.
As long as you have adequate clean storage space for your recyclables it is worth it. The key is “space” because it often takes a lot of cans or papers to give you a decent monetary return. This “space” needs to stay clean so you do not attract bugs, spiders, and other vermin.

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32 to 40 cents for aluminum ,glass and paper usually run a penny a pound

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DC or state?

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It depends on howmuch the deposit is for your cans, where ever you live. Here its 5 cents… So 5×155=625 therefore… $6.25 🙂
haha i like bottles better, you would get much more.

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Check ur phone book for recycleing and we have a place here called try2recycle there may be something like that there and the price ranges from place to place

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Right now it is about $0.75 per pound of cans, but that can vary by state and locality. There are some states that have a deposit requirement and then your reimbursement rate is probably about double that rate or better. It generally takes about 32 cans to make up a pound of aluminum.

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2 cent
its worth it your helping the environment and you will have to pay less on your garbage disposal

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Roadways, parks and other areas aforementioned may work.

One idea is to go to a sporting event like a local race track or game and lurk under the bleachers after everyone leaves for the night. They usually don’t clean up until the morning after.

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Check with the recycling facilities near you. Usually, it’s the private recycling facilities that compensate people for the recyclables they bring in.

Check out this story for inspiration:
http://www.ncnblog.com/2008/04/09/recycling-soda-cans-to-purchase-a-new-lawn-mower-64000-aluminum-cans-equal-1400/

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As far as I’m aware, the garbage man does not recycle anything – they only haul to landfills.

I’m in Columbus, OH. Rumpke (out of Cincinnati) has a curbside recycling service. We can put paper, plastic (only those marked 1 or 2), aluminum, steel, and glass.

Don’t know if Medina is serviced. But if you call whoever does operate the garbage collection there, they at least might be able to tell you who you could call to find out?

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No need for certain kinds of bags except for recycling. Compost-able yard waste is supposed to be placed in paper bags you can buy in many places (to save the effort of unbundling plastic bags) or tied with string in bundles no more than 4 feet long or placed in a ‘green bin’. Yard waste is only collected at certain times of the year …
Christmas trees are collected in January and either mulched, or placed in stream beds for protection of young fish …
Recyclable items are to be placed in clear plastic bags, washed, or placed in a ‘blue bin’. Cardboard should be cut down and tied in bundles, also no more than 4 feet by two …
Newspapers and other non-colored papers go in the ‘grey bin’ or clear bags or tied with string …
For regular garbage, the city sells large wheeled bins for garbage, but plastic bags are accepted. Some areas limit the number of bags per pickup, or sell tags per bag …
Yes, we have many rules, but the garbage dumps are nearly full, with few other places to go. All these rules are cost-effective and have lessened the volume of regular garbage going to the dump to less than a third of what it was.
Green, blue and grey bins, plus another lidded container for regular garbage – a colorful display on garbage day, until they are emptied and blow into the street. By the way, the colored bins were free from the city! …

Answers is a Jungle

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Check out the website for your recycling/garbage company or city or whoever recycles your stuff. Where I live, you can recycle any plastic, but that’s not true everywhere. It’s pretty enlightening to check out what can be recycled too. Good luck!

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We have 4 adults living in the house and produce 2 bags of garbage and 5 recycle bins. I don’t feel guilty about it as were doing the best we can.

God bless u,

Daniel
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Put them in a paper recycling bin.

Or find an animal shelter in your area that needs shredded paper (ask first though because not all do and they don’t like bags of it left at their door if they can’t use it).

You can use it to make the base of a no dig garden.

You can give it to a friend who has small animals and needs bedding.

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If you have recycling in your area, you will almost definitely be able to put those in with the rest of the recyclables.

Cat food cans are usually steel, which recycles easily and is profitable for recyling companies. Check to see by putting a magnet up to the can. If it sticks, it’s probably steel. If it doesn’t, it’s probably aluminum. Either one will recycle.

If you don’t have recycling in your area, wash them out and save them. A scrap metal company will probably buy them. It may not be much, as they buy by weight, but it’s better than nothing.

ONE LAST NOTE: Removing the labels is very helpful for your recyclers. If the paper is mixed with the molten steel, it will ignite and could cause a flash fire, which is dangerous to the workers at the steel mill.

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I did this once.
I made a dress out of a garbage bag, and i cut out pics from magazines ( designer names )
and i taped them to the plastic bag.
And then i like put velcrow on both sides so it would shut.
I got an A.
Good luck!

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Garbage can be reduced by following the golden rule of recycling

“REDUCE REUSE & RECYCLE”

Reduce the use by reusing the things like paper wrappings, covers, plastic bags, boxes, etc.
Using single box/bag for multiple things(which dont mix with each other)
is also a g8 way to reduce the papers/boxes/bags needed…
100% of paper in the world can be recycled…
So recycling paper for making new paper/boxes/bags/paper mesh things etc can be considered for UR project!
Reducing the use of cans/papers/bags/ by reutilization can also help!!!
Google is our grandfather who’s always ready to help us…so try googleing too!!!
Best of Luck for ur project!!!

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Most recycling companies use large machines called Tromells to separate out the recyclable metal and plastics from the loads the receive. So if garbage is thrown in, it gets separated out.

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Below you will find three methods of restoring your Recycle Bin to your desktop:
Method #1:

Right-click an empty area of your desktop
Select Properties
Click the Desktop tab
Click the Customize button
Click Restore Default
Exit all windows and restart your computer
Method #2:

Note: Be sure to make a backup copy of your registry prior to making any changes.

Go to Start>> Run. Type in: regedit [Enter]

Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace

Hold the mouse on NameSpace and right-click once. From the resulting menu, select Edit>> New>> Key

Copy and Paste the following Key code (including the brackets):

{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}

Press Enter on your keyboard, exit the registry editor and restart your system.

Method#3:

Download this registry fix to repair or replace the recycle bin
http://www.5starsupport.com/download/replbin.reg

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How to Hide/Un-Hide Recycle Bin Icon on Desktop in XP
Posted by Shailendra Doke | Jan 21, 2008

In this post you will learn How to Hide or Un-Hide the Recycle Bin Icon in Windows XP. Many people hate this icon, I don’t know why, they just don’t want to let it appear on their Desktop.

I am explaining two ways from which you can Hide the Recycle Bin Icon and whenever you need it, you can Un-Hide it.

1) This is the simple way as compare to second one.

From Group Policy Editor we will Hide the Recycle Bin Icon.

Click Start, Click Run, Type GPEDIT.MSC, Press Enter
On the Left Column Expand Administrative Templates, click on Desktop
On the Right Column Find Remove Recycle Bin Icon from Desktop
Double click on it, A Property Window will Appear
Select Enable option, Press OK.
Refresh Desktop, Enjoy!
To Show Recycle Bin Icon on Desktop, Do same steps but instead of Enable select Not Configured.

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Vista/Win 7

Click Start.
Click on Control Panel.
Click on Personalization
Click on Change desktop icons on the left side of the Personalization box.
Put a check/tick in the box next to Recycle Bin.
Click OK.

XP

Right-click an empty area of your desktop.
Select Properties.
Click the Desktop tab.
Click the Customize button.
Click Restore Default.
Exit all windows and restart your computer.

If you want to prevent the Recycle Bin from accidental deletion, follow these steps:

***Always back up the registry before making changes (make a Restore Point)***

1.Navigate through the Registry Editor to
HKCRCLSID{645FF040-5081-
101B-9F08-
00AA002F954E}.
2.Create a new registry key called Shell.
3.Create a new registry key named Delete and put it beneath the Shell key. The path should look like this:
HKCRCLSID{645FF040-5081-
101B-9F08-
00AA002F954E}ShellDelete.
4.Modify the Default key and assign it a value of Recycle Bin.
5.Exit Regedit.

© arou42

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It “could” be that you just didn’t see and interpret the information correctly regarding your hard drive space before and after because emptying your recycle bin is “supposed” to free up hard drive space.

Or it could be that there is some corruption in your Recycle Bin data file.

For testing purposes, perhaps you could try a program like CCleaner since it’s free and it’s supposed to do the same job as well as several others.

Http://download.cnet.com/ccleaner/

The freeware CCleaner hasn’t seen many major revisions since Piriform launched it in 2004, so when you do see a major update, you can be assured that it’s going to come with impressive new tools. CCleaner 3 doesn’t disappoint on that front, introducing two major new features that make it worth the upgrade.

One is a drive wiping tool that can wipe all the data from your hard drive, but can also scrub only the available free space. As with many of the tools in CCleaner, it’s fairly nuanced and allows for a simple one-pass overwrite, a Department of Defense-level three-pass option, a National Security Administration-level seven-pass cleaning, and a 35-pass Gutmann-level deep scrub. The more passes you select, the slower the deletion process.

Edit: I am now uninstalling unwanted programs and find that that too increases the disk space used.

That’s not supposed to happen. Maybe you have a virus or something that duplicates files that you try to delete, or maybe like I said there is some corruption with your Recycle Bin data file or some configuration error for the Recycle Bin. Here are the instructions for deleting that file in Windows Vista. If you’re using a different version you should be able to follow the general instructions to delete that file.

Http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/131294-recycle-bin-corrupted-cannot-delete-file-folder.html

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I’m assuming that you cannot find the Recycling Bin icon that is normally on your desktop. If this is the case then here is how you get it to show back up:

– Right-click on your desktop and choose “Properties” on the menu that pops up.

– Choose the “Desktop” tab at the top of that window and at the bottom of that window you will see a button called “Customize Desktop”, click on that and you will get a new window to pop up

– In the new window you will find a checkbox for the Recycling Bin, just put a check in that box and click OK on that window as well as OK in the Properties window that opened first and it should be there

Now you should be able to right-click on the Recycling Bin icon and choose “Empty Recycling Bin”

Hope that helps!

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The recycle bin is just another folder on your computer. If you want to restore files from it you can, so it’s more of a last-ditch “are you REALLLY sure you want to delete that?” for trigger-happy users.

A better question is, how can you restore files that are destroyed and no more? (P.S. To empty or restore files in the recycle bin, forever, right-click it. You can go from there.)

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From the Microsoft website:

Edit the registry to restore the Recycle Bin
Warning Serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly by using Registry Editor or by using another method. These problems might require that you reinstall your operating system. Microsoft cannot guarantee that these problems can be solved. Modify the registry at your own risk.

Note This procedure does not work if the system administrator used a Group Policy setting to hide the Recycle Bin (or “All Icons”) on the Desktop.

To edit the registry to make the Recycle Bin icon reappear on the desktop, follow these steps: 1. Click Start, and then click Run.
2. In the Open box, type regedit, and then click OK.
3. Locate the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerDesktopNameSpace

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You probably hid the Recycle Bin.

Windows XP.
1. Right click on an empty point of the desktop, and click Properties.
2. Click the “Desktop” tab.
3. Click “Customize Desktop”.
4. Check “Recycle Bin” if unchecked.
5. Click OK to exit out.

Windows Vista:
1. Right click on an empty point of the desktop, and click Persoonalize.
2. On the left pane, click “Change desktop icons”.
3. Check “Recycle Bin” if unchecked.
4. Click OK to exit out.

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HOW. How you deleted your recycle bin. And which window you are using.

Because recycle bin can’t be deleted. You must haver deleted a shortcut to recycle bin.

Search in your system recycle bin

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If you have a waste to energy plant nearby you can take them their.

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Try Using Ebay

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The price for recyclable materials has tanked. Things that were worth $200 a ton are now worth less than $20. Recyclers around the nation are having to stock pile items so they aren’t willing to take anything right now. Who knows how long this will last, as long as consumers aren’t buying, then no one is making things so there is no value to the materials needed to make them. I hate to say it, but you will likely have to store it for a year or longer or bring it to a landfill.

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It depends on several things such as the space you have, how handy you are, how much money you want to spend and what your community says needs to be separated for pickup or drop off. If you are only recycling one or two items or can mix your recyclable materials then a pull-out recycling bin system that fits into a kitchen base cabinet may be ideal. These units are available at home centers and stores like The Container Store. A simple and less expensive way to handle only a few items is to use stackable plastic bins that you can place near the kitchen trash can or in some other convenient place like a pantry or the garage. For keeping several types of items separated for recycling it may be best to put several different colored cans near the outside trash cans or in a garage and have one or two bins in the kitchen area that you empty frequently, separating the items into the other cans.

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You could take them to the nearest post and see if you can still ‘dx’ them. They can probably take them for you and they will dispose of them properly.

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Donate your used cell phones to your local police department or victim advocate’s office. They use them for domestic violence cases in case someone needs to diall 911. Schools and colleges may take your used computer parts.

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Try washing them with vinegar.
Can you donate them to the humane society? They probably have solutions that can get the smell out, plus they are always looking for old towels and things.

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Credit card numbers are not stored on the machines. But, ifyou are still worried about it, contact your merchant service provider (credit card processor) and have them delete the program(s) on the terminal. If you no longer have a merchant service provider, contact any local provider and ask them if they will buy it from you to reprogram for re-sale. A reputable provider wouldn’t do anything with credit card numbers because they would be too concerned about losing their VISA/MasterCard certification.

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Recycling plastics is easy. First, you should learn what types of plastics can be recycled and only give your collector those types of plastics. Plastics have different formulations and should be sorted before they are recycled to make new products. Mixed plastics can be recycled, but they are not as valuable as sorted plastics because the recycled plastic’s physical properties, such as strength, may vary with each batch.

It’s also important to rinse the container and squash it, you may leave the paper labels on the container, but always throw away the plastic caps. Plastic caps are usually made from a different type of plastic than the container and cannot be easily recycled.

A recycling plant uses seven steps to turn plastic trash into recycled plastic:

1. Inspection
Workers inspect the plastic trash for contaminants like rock and glass, and for plastics that the plant cannot recycle.

2. Chopping and Washing
The plastic is washed and chopped into flakes.

3. Flotation Tank
If mixed plastics are being recycled, they are sorted in a flotation tank, where some types of plastic sink and others float.

4. Drying
The plastic flakes are dried in a tumble dryer.

5. Melting
The dried flakes are fed into an extruder, where heat and pressure melt the plastic. Different types of plastics melt at different temperatures.

6. Filtering
The molten plastic is forced through a fine screen to remove any contaminants that slipped through the washing process. The molten plastic is then formed into strands.

7. Pelletizing
The strands are cooled in water, then chopped into uniform pellets. Manufacturing companies buy the plastic pellets from recyclers to make new products. Recycled plastics also can be made into flowerpots, lumber, and carpeting.

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For a while, people did sort the recyclables, and some places still use inmates to sort, but new technologies can sort without the problems of using people to sort.

Having separate containers for each category of items was a bother for most people and needed sorted anyhow because of it, so items needed sorted anyhow. Now items are now sorted with machinery rather than people which is more cost effective.

Recycling does save a lot of money, but it comes down to the city or municipality to follow through with sorting the stuff to recycle or just dumping everything into a land fill. Some municipalities don’t sort and recycle, but those that do save money from land fill fees, and make a little by selling the recycled stuff.

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Have you tried going to any government web sites?

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Contact a local pig farmer its all good food to the pigs,, or a local composting company they might like to add the food to help build the bacteria levels up in their composting piles

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You may have to put up with sales people. What they charge depends on the volume of waste you produce. Consider buying a larger shredder and just recycling with the rest of your paper waste.

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The world is full of toxic chemicals and they are not all man made by a long shot. Did you know that potatoes contain a small amount of cyanide for instance.

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See www.vikoz.com/ They allegedly buy bulk waste plastic “nationwide.”

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It’s disgusting isn’t it?

I see the supermarkets are getting on the eco-band wagon and stopping giving away plastic carriers for free, instead asking us to buy stronger, longer lasting reusable ones, yet they continue to sell products packaged in piles and piles of plastic and cardboard.

I HATE with a passion, the amount of packaging used nowadays.

But will it ever stop? Not until the earth is covered in the damn stuff.

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First, I do not think that at this point in time you will be able to produce safe and effective bricks or road material using plastic.

The closest you will get is the new type of plastic lumber that is coming out. That is some really good stuff and people are using it today. I can not say how much recycled content they have though.

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I want a company with skips

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Some programs take just PETE (1) and HDPE (2). Others will take all plastics. The other plastics are quite safe; you buy food in them, don’t you? The only way you might get into trouble is by using a non-food container for food without a thorough cleaning. They sometimes are coated with the chemicals used to facilitate popping them out of the molds. The only plastic items that I would never re-use are the ones used to package things like pesticides, motor oil, and other nasty stuff. Plates, cups, bowls, and other containers can be reused as long as they are sound.

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Depends on the type of container… Some plastics aren’t recyclable. All aluminum containers are.

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Lots of things have the recycle symbol on it, BUT what is actually recyclable is up to your local council. Eg. Plastic butter cartons have a recycle symbol, but they are not recyclable in my council area, because they have no way to recycle them. So the best way to find out is to phone your local council and see what they can or can not recycle.

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Type in the address bar, then tap or press on the ‘Enter’ key on your computer.

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Plastic can only be recycled so many times. The number is a marker telling the recycle people how much recycle life that plastic has.

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Sometimes, it just depends

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Http://www.epa.gov/productreview/guide/seal_logo/images/recycle3.jpg

that should be good!

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The recycling symbol is public domain and does not belong to anyone. However, local laws usually restrict its use on anything that isn’t recyclable.

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I would figure you could get them in any retail store. But http://www.zazzle.com/recycle+tshirts is 100% safe they accept paypal or by phone orders accredited with BBB.

I’m leery of the inter-web but if you do research it should be fine or get a pre-paid credit and load only the amount needed to cover the purchase.

But I have used Zazzle and trust them plus a wider selection of tees not found in local stores.