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When your at a job interview, you want to give that person eye contact, shake hand firmly, sit right in the chair, talk clearly, don’t show attitude, dress in a suit, no chewing gum, no curssing, be nice, tell him/her why you really want to be a HGV driver at a recycling. Tell him/her that you love to get along with a lot of people or love to meet new people…

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Recycling saves trees.

This critical fact, one of the first environmental lessons many children learn, cannot be overstated. Half the Earth’s forests are gone, and up to 95 percent of the original forest area in the U.S. Has been cut down.

2. Recycling protects wildlife habitat and biodiversity.

Using recycled materials reduces the need to chop down, extract, process, refine and transport natural resources such as timber, crude petroleum and mineral ores. As a result, destruction of forests, wetlands, rivers and other places essential to wildlife is also reduced.

3. Recycling lowers the use of toxic chemicals.

Making products from already refined waste materials reduces — and often avoids altogether — the need for manufacturers to use toxic chemicals, essential when using virgin materials.

4. Recycling helps curb global warming.

Using recycled materials cuts down on the energy used in the manufacturing process, dramatically reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants. For example, recycling one ton of glass results in energy savings of more than 300% and lowers carbon dioxide emissions by 3.46 tons.

5. Recycling stems the flow of water pollution.

Making goods from recycled materials generates far less water pollution than manufacturing from virgin materials. Turning trees into paper uses more water than any other industrial process in the U.S., dumping billions of gallons of wastewater — contaminated with pollutants such as chlorinated dioxin — each year into rivers, lakes and streams. Paper recycling mills don’t pollute the water nearly as much, and almost always use less of it. In addition, some recycling plants use treated wastewater for the manufacturing process.

6. Recycling reduces the need for landfills.

Toxic pollution from landfills — including cyanide, dioxins, mercury, methane, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and lead — escapes into the air and leaches into groundwater.

7. Recycling reduces the need for incinerators.

Municipal waste incinerators spew out all kinds of air pollutants; in addition they produce contaminated ash. And they are often located in urban neighborhoods where they seriously threaten the health of the community. Keeping paper, glass, plastic and metal out of incinerators by recycling them cuts both how much incinerators pollute and how harmful the emissions are.

8. Recycling creates jobs and promotes economic development.

A recent study by the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission found that recycling added about $18.5 billion in value to the economies of 12 Southern states and Puerto Rico in 1995. A recycled newsprint mill in the Bronx, started by NRDC and a local community group, will create 600 permanent jobs and clean up an industrial site abandoned for a quarter of a century.

9. Cities may profit by selling recyclables.

While landfills are always dumping grounds for municipal money as well as garbage, cities with high recycling rates can actually make money selling recyclables when markets are good.

10. Buying recycled products contributes to the demand for more recycled products.

This will, in turn, save even more resources, reduce more pollution and protect more people’s health. On the other hand, as the size of the market grows, recycled products will cost less.

Hope that helped..

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Recycling and composting diverted nearly 70 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2000, up from 34 million tons in 1990-doubling in just 10 years.

Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees.

The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours.

Recycling benefits the air and water by creating a net reduction in ten major categories of air pollutants and eight major categories of water pollutants.

In the U.S., processing minerals contributes almost half of all reported toxic emissions from industry, sending 1.5 million tons of pollution into the air and water each year. Recycling can significantly reduce these emissions.

It is important to reduce our reliance on foreign oil. Recycling helps us do that by saving energy.

Manufacturing with recycled materials, with very few exceptions, saves energy and water and produces less air and water pollution than manufacturing with virgin materials.

A national recycling rate of 30% reduces greenhouse gas emissions as much as removing nearly 25 million cars from the road.
Recycling conserves natural resources, such as timber, water, and minerals.

Every bit of recycling makes a difference. For example, one year of recycling on just one college campus, Stanford University, saved the equivalent of 33,913 trees and the need for 636 tons of iron ore, coal, and limestone.

Recycled paper supplies more than 37% of the raw materials used to make new paper products in the U.S. Without recycling, this material would come from trees. Every ton of newsprint or mixed paper recycled is the equivalent of 12 trees. Every ton of office paper recycled is the equivalent of 24 trees.

When one ton of steel is recycled, 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone are conserved.

Brutal wars over natural resources, including timber and minerals, have killed or displaced more than 20 million people and are raising at least $12 billion a year for rebels, warlords, and repressive governments. Recycling eases the demand for the resources.
Mining is the world’s most deadly occupation. On average, 40 mine workers are killed on the job each day, and many more are injured. Recycling reduces the need for mining.

Tree farms and reclaimed mines are not ecologically equivalent to natural forests and ecosystems.

Recycling prevents habitat destruction, loss of biodiversity, and soil erosion associated with logging and mining.

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The cost of collecting, transporting and removing impurities from recycled items before re-use can be significant. These pre-production costs contribute to the final consumer cost of recycled items. This is why you currently pay more for most recycled items. Also keep in mind that the sellers you originally buy items from are not the same businesses who collect and sell your recycling, and neither of these businesses are the same as the producer of the recycled goods, which may differ from the distributor and the end-seller of the recycled items. Each of the above steps needs to make a profit, or the associated businesses would not remain in business. In short, you are not giving recycling back to the original seller, in most cases. Typically, the recycled goods seller does not simply jack up prices for no good reason. The real question is if it is worth an extra 5-10% in cost to reduce the pressure on natural resources when obtaining products. When you pay for recycled goods, they are often re-produced domestically; so your American money stays in American pockets. You are actually helping the existence of the different businesses I listed above. This creates or at least maintains American jobs. If you buy something that is made from non-recycled materials, it has a greater chance of being imported, or the raw materials to make it were more likely imported. Like you, I would like to see the price of recycled materials reduced. It would be great to receive a more competitive price, reduce pressure on the environment and keep cash in domestic circles. If recycled goods were household products rather than specialty items, the price would likely drop. Of course, if the price would drop, they might become household items…lol. As the demand for raw materials continues to increase globally, most recycled materials will become cheaper relative to new raw materials, making recycled goods less expensive to consumers in the long run. You may think I am crazy, but my prediction is that land fills and dumps will someday be mined for all of the plastic and perhaps the metals buried there. This may not occur in the next 10-20 years, but sometime during most of our lifetimes. The natural resources will become reduced and/or become very costly and it will be cheaper to sift through old garbage for certain local raw materials….

In answer to your car question, new technology (such as hybrid vehicles) have very high development costs. These costs must be passed on to the consumer. The technology will become cheaper as time goes by, unless replaced by another technology – fuel cell technology perhaps. The other question is if a more fuel efficient vehicle is worth more to the public. Is a compact fluorescent bulb worth more than a standard bulb? Ultimately companies charge what the public is willing to pay – and they do their “homework” in this region before releasing most products to the market. For some items, the public is smart and for others, they get taken…. You don’t mind paying $1.50 for a soft drink at a fast food restaurant that costs the company a few nickels total (cup, straw, lid and liquid), but you won’t pay 5 or 10% more for recycled goods? Most recycling industries do not have anywhere near the profit margin when compared to the beverage industry.

Ultimately you pay the amount for an item equal to what other people in your same area are willing to pay for that item, which is not always relative to what the item costs to make. Recycled goods are reasonably priced when you consider what is necessary for their production. If you are worried about getting ripped off by an industry or paying too much, think about what you drink and how little the ingredients cost relative to the price. Going green takes a relatively small percentage of your money in most cases when you think about it. You pay more for the car now and save on gas later, or you pay more for the c.f. Light bulb now and save on electricity later. “Green” is a new choice so we consumers scrutinize it heavily, while accepting other ridiculously high profit-making businesses that have been in existence for extended periods of time. I do think we could pay less for recycled goods, but there are many other industries where we should pay far less than the current prices.

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Recycling protects wildlife habitat and biodiversity. Using recycled materials reduces the need to chop down, extract, process, refine and transport natural resources such as timber, crude petroleum and mineral ores. As a result, destruction of forests, wetlands, rivers and other places essential to wildlife is also reduced.

# Recycling lowers the use of toxic chemicals. Making products from already refined waste materials reduces — and often avoids altogether — the need for manufacturers to use toxic chemicals, essential when using virgin materials.

# Recycling helps curb global warming. Using recycled materials cuts down on the energy used in the manufacturing process, dramatically reducing emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants. For example, recycling one ton of glass results in energy savings of more than 300 percent and lowers carbon dioxide emissions by 3.46 tons.

# Recycling stems the flow of water pollution. Making goods from recycled materials generates far less water pollution than manufacturing from virgin materials. Turning trees into paper uses more water than any other industrial process in the U.S., dumping billions of gallons of wastewater — contaminated with pollutants such as chlorinated dioxin — each year into rivers, lakes and streams. Paper recycling mills don’t pollute the water nearly as much, and almost always use less of it. In addition, some recycling plants use treated wastewater for the manufacturing process.

# Recycling reduces the need for landfills. Toxic pollution from landfills — including cyanide, dioxins, mercury, methane, hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and lead — escapes into the air and leaches into groundwater.

# Recycling reduces the need for incinerators. Municipal waste incinerators spew out all kinds of air pollutants; in addition they produce contaminated ash. And they are often located in urban neighborhoods where they seriously threaten the health of the community. Keeping paper, glass, plastic and metal out of incinerators by recycling them cuts both how much incinerators pollute and how harmful the emissions are.

# Recycling creates jobs and promotes economic development. A study by the Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission found that recycling added about $18.5 billion in value to the economies of 12 Southern states and Puerto Rico in 1995.

# Cities may profit by selling recyclables. While landfills are always dumping grounds for municipal money as well as garbage, cities with high recycling rates can actually make money selling recyclables when markets are good.

# Buying recycled products contributes to the demand for more recycled products. This will, in turn, save even more resources, reduce more pollution and protect more people’s health. On the other hand, as the size of the market grows, recycled products will cost less.

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In south carolina they are about to open up a new coca cola recycling center which will create a little over a hundred 40 hour jobs a week

it is opening sometime next month i believe in spartanburg in South carolina (im repetitive >.<)

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Odd jobs, babysitting, dog walker, landscaping, hauling, recycling.

Think out of the box!

Good luck!

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Some reasons to recycle: http://www.homes-energy-efficient.com/re…

1. Creates manufacturing jobs – making stuff from recyclable materials
2. Reduces garbage volume to landfills
3. Reduces the cost of manufacturing because starting from scratch, mining raw materials and transporting them to manufacturing plant costs money.
4.conserves natural resources because less mining of natural resources required to keep up with current demand if we are manufacturing items from previously manufactured items.
5. Conserves energy because of reduced mining and transportation costs on raw materials
6. Reduces greenhouse gas emissions because the manufacturing process is shorter using recycled materials to begin with rather than starting from scratch.
7. Is earth friendly
8. Avoids the waste of just plain throwing things away that can be reused and re-manufactured for less.

Sorry I don’t have 25 reasons, but perhaps this helps a little.

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Some reasons to recycle: http://www.homes-energy-efficient.com/recycle.html

1. Creates manufacturing jobs – making stuff from recyclable materials
2. Reduces garbage volume to landfills
3. Reduces the cost of manufacturing because starting from scratch, mining raw materials and transporting them to manufacturing plant costs money.
4.conserves natural resources because less mining of natural resources required to keep up with current demand if we are manufacturing items from previously manufactured items.
5. Conserves energy because of reduced mining and transportation costs on raw materials
6. Reduces greenhouse gas emissions because the manufacturing process is shorter using recycled materials to begin with rather than starting from scratch.
7. Is earth friendly
8. Avoids the waste of just plain throwing things away that can be reused and re-manufactured for less.

Sorry I don’t have 25 reasons, but perhaps this helps a little.

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It is most often just melted down.

Pittsburg’s steel industry is pretty much running off of recycling scrap, it is cheaper to get new iron overseas so they only iron that is practical to make I the US is that from recycled materials.

Normally, a recycling center, a junk yard, a construction recycling yard, and other industries including police yards supplying handguns, end up with a lot of steel at the end of the recycling process and they send it off to old steel furnaces to be recycled into new steel products.

The History Channel has a new series they have been running for several months called Boneyards where they discuss the growing recycling industry.

Various police departments have had long standing programs where they take guns that were seized from criminals and after the cases are finished they are sent to a steel mill for melting down and recycling.

The Papst Brewer is the scene of a huge demolition and recycling project. Everything from the bricks to the steel is being recycled. One construction company has the contract to redesign the center for a local college and the town. It is a challenging job because the company went out of business in midstream and just stopped producing beer. Unsigned checks were found in files that were still in the offices, everything was left in place and the brewery was over 50 years old. All of the steel from it is being recycled.

US Steel was the cheapest and the best made in the world; but that was back in WW2. Since then Japan and other Asian countries have stolen more and more of the market. Even after extra taxes were added to foreign steel it was still cheaper to go abroad. China is one of our largest sources of steel, but then they are trying to become the world’s factory. Currently those infamous shipping containers that we receive in the tons by huge ships are becoming a problem. The cost to send those containers back to China for reuse is excessive so they stay in the US. The make excellent long term storage containers and have even entered the housing industry being used as a shell to create low cost homes. When this is done wall board is added, the steel is cut with passages and wiring and it is almost impossible to tell the house was not built with normal stick built construction methods. As we get more of those shipping containers we are going to have to get more creative in how we recycle them.

It is cheaper to recycle steel than create new steel, because most iron ore is oxidized and it is harder to remove the rust. Steel is iron with 6% carbon and it doesn’t rust as easily. Since steel melts at a high temperature it is possible to burn off all other materials during the melting process. Since the steel doesn’t have to be smelted and only melted it takes less energy to use recycled steel. The same is true for aluminum, only the energy savings is even higher.

Iron itself is rarely used as a construction material, except in wrought iron gates and display metal work. Instead steel is preferred and next to concrete it is the most common used construction material. Every high rise or concrete structure uses reinforced steel and that takes up a lot of the metal.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel#Recycling
“Steel is the most widely recycled material in North America. The steel industry has been actively recycling for more than 150 years, in large part because it is economically advantageous to do so. It is cheaper to recycle steel than to mine iron ore and manipulate it through the production process to form ‘new’ steel. Steel does not lose any of its inherent physical properties during the recycling process, and has drastically reduced energy and material requirements than refinement from iron ore. The energy saved by recycling reduces the annual energy consumption of the industry by about 75%, which is enough to power eighteen million homes for one year. Recycling one ton of steel saves 1,100 kilograms of iron ore, 630 kilograms of coal, and 55 kilograms of limestone. 76 million tons of steel were recycled in 2005.

In recent years, about three quarters of the steel produced annually has been recycled. However, the numbers are much higher for certain types of products. For example, in both 2004 and 2005, 97.5% of structural steel beams and plates were recycled. Other steel construction elements such as reinforcement bars are recycled at a rate of about 65%. Indeed, structural steel typically contains around 95% recycled steel content, whereas lighter gauge, flat rolled steel contains about 30% reused material.

Because steel beams are manufactured to standardized dimensions, there is often very little waste produced during construction, and any waste that is produced may be recycled. For a typical 2,000-square-foot (200 m²) two-story house, a steel frame is equivalent to about six recycled cars, while a comparable wooden frame house may require as many as 40–50 trees.
Global demand for steel continues to grow, and though there are large amounts of steel existing, much of it is actively in use. As such, recycled steel must be augmented by some first-use metal, derived from raw materials. Commonly recycled steel products include cans, automobiles, appliances, and debris from demolished buildings. A typical appliance is about 65% steel by weight and automobiles are about 66% steel and iron.

While some recycling takes place through the integrated steel mills and the basic oxygen process, most of the recycled steel is melted electrically, either using an electric arc furnace (for production of low-carbon steel) or an induction furnace (for production of some highly-alloyed ferrous products).”

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling#Ferrous_metals
“Iron and steel are the world’s most recycled materials, and among the easiest materials to recycle, as they can be separated magnetically from the waste stream. Recycling is via a steelworks: scrap is either remelted in an Electric Arc Furnace (90-100% scrap), or used as part of the charge in a Basic Oxygen Furnace (around 25% scrap). Any grade of steel can be recycled to top quality new metal, with no ‘downgrading’ from prime to lower quality materials as steel is recycled repeatedly. 42% of crude steel produced is recycled material.

— Non-ferrous metals
Main article: Aluminium recycling
Aluminium is shredded and ground into small pieces or crushed into bales. These pieces or bales are melted in an aluminium smelter to produce molten aluminium. By this stage the recycled aluminium is indistinguishable from virgin aluminium and further processing is identical for both.
Due to the high melting point of aluminium ore, large amounts of energy are required to extract aluminium from ore, making the environmental benefits of recycling aluminium enormous. Recycling aluminium only results in approximately 5% of the CO2 that would be released during the production of raw aluminium. The percentage is even smaller when considering the complete cycle of mining and transporting the aluminium. Also, as open-cut mining is most often used for obtaining aluminium ore, mining destroys large sections of natural land.

An aluminium can is 100% recyclable. Every time a can is recycled, enough energy is saved to power a television for about three hours (compared to mining and producing a new can).”

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This might help you understand recycling more…

We recycle because of these reasons: 1. Saves Natural Resources – By making products from recycled materials instead of virgin materials, we conserve land and reduce the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals. 2. Saves Energy – It usually takes less energy to make recycled products; recycled aluminum, for example, takes 95% less energy than new aluminum from bauxite ore. 3. Saves Clean Air and Water – In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials. 4. Saves Landfill Space – When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don’t go into landfills or incinerators, so landfill space is conserved. 5. Saves Money and Creates Jobs – The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns. These are just a few reasons out of the many why we recycle.
Ways to recycle are by: 1. Plant lots of trees. Trees not only preserve the earth, but also help ‘pollute’ the air. We should also stop deforestation and start planting at least two trees for each tree that we cut. 2. Use renewable energy. Resources like coal and oil are non-renewable and the more we use them, the less we will have. We should, in fact, concentrate on other forms of energy like solar energy and natural gas for our use. 3. Recycle waste products. The more paper we use, the more we’ll need and so more trees will be cut. Instead, try to cut wastage of paper and use recycled paper. 4. Use less plastic. In our world, it’s hard to live without plastic – almost everything we use from carry bags to containers are made of plastic and it’s true that they are convenient. What we forget is that they are not convenient to destroy – so, they just cling to the earth’s surface and suffocate it. Even if it’s not possible to stop using plastic fully, we can start using less of it.
Here are some facts about recycling:
Americans go through 2.5 million plastic bottles every hour.
Every minute of every day, an average of 113,204 aluminum cans are recycled.
Through recycling each year, the steel industry saves enough energy to power 18 million homes – one-fifth of the households in the US.
The average American uses 650 pounds of paper each year – 100 million tons of wood could be saved each year if all that paper was recycled.
A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 29 gallons of juice, 104 gallons of milk, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That’s a lot of containers that can all be recycled!
About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable.
Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours.

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Recycling saves energy and resources

For every ton of paper made from recycled materials saves 17 trees, 6.953 gallons of water, 463 gallons of oil, 587 pounds of air pollution, 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space, and 4,077 kilowatt hours of energy.

In one year, recycling allows aluminum companies to save the equivalent of more than 19 million barrels of oil – enough energy to supply electricity to about 18 million households for a year.

Recycling one glass bottle or jar saves enough electricity to light a 100-watt bulb for four hours.

Recycling one pound of steel can power a 60-watt light bulb for more than a day.

Recycling one ton of plastic saves the equivalent of 1,000 – 2,000 gallons of gasoline.

Recycling decreases pollution
Making cars from recycling aluminum decreases related air pollution by 95 percent.
Making recycled paper generates 74 percent less air pollution and 35 percent less water pollution, and uses 64 percent less energy than making paper from virgin timber.
Recycling decreases tree cutting
If all morning newspapers in the US were recycled for one day, the equivalent of 41,000 trees would be saved and 6 million tons of waste would never end up in landfills.
Every person in the US receives junk mail that represents the equivalent of 1-1/2 trees a year. If only 100,000 people stopped their junk mail, as many as 150,000 trees annually would not be cut down for paper productions. (One tree can filter up to 60 pounds of pollutants from the air each year).

Recycling reduces reliance on imported oil

Motor oil never wears out, it just gets dirty. Oil can be recycled, re-refined, and used again, reducing our reliance on imported oil.

Recycling reduces our reliance on landfills
Recycling creates jobs and economic development.

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Grocery stores

also, “recycled” is not the same as “post-consumer”

There is a lot of wasted plastic in the manufacture of plastic objects from plastic resin. All those things that are trimmed off of molded items add up.

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Babysitting, collecting & recycling aluminum cans & cashing them in for money. Cleaning houses? Sorry, that’s all I can think of for a 14-yr. Old.

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There are a few, gardiners probably have a pretty good job. Some others also get a job for picking up things like plastic bags, bottles, cans and paper and recycling them, especially around lakes and rivers. You could also work for things like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), or Greenpeace or something like that.
Here, this might help you:
http://www.enviroeducation.com/careers-jobs/
you could probably find some interesting jobs there

and if not that, try this:
http://www.webdirectory.com/employment/

Hope this helped!

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You can recycle the broken hair drier in plastic industries doing recycling job.

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Good SAE project for you no matter where you live would be Vermiculture or earthworm compost processing. I think it would fit under the SAE guidelines as Compost Processing and/or Specialty Animal Production.
Recycling the organic waste of a household into compost allows us to return badly needed organic matter to the soil. In this way, we participate in nature’s cycle, and cut down on garbage going into burgeoning landfills.
Why Compost With Worms? Worm composting is a method for recycling food waste into a rich, dark, earth-smelling soil conditioner. The great advantage of worm composting is that this can be done indoors and outdoors, thus allowing year around composting. It also provides apartment dwellers with a means of composting. In a nutshell, worm compost is made in a container filled with moistened bedding and red worms. Add your food waste for a period of time, and the worms and micro-organisms will eventually convert the entire contents into rich compost.
You can make your project as small as composting your household garbage or as large as you want with animal manure, lawn clippings, and any organic waste you may need to dispose of. Combine your composting project with making extra money mowing lawns, raking leaves, cleaning out barns, etc and keeping clippings, leaves and manure and bedding for your project. You could make money selling great organic worm castings and by selling earthworms as fishing bait or to others wanting to start composting.
Http://www.cityfarmer.org/wormcomp61.html
http://www.vermiculturenorthwest.com/

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Mow yards; weed; babysitting; dog walking (small to medium dogs); odd jobs; collect and recycle cans; help the trainer with non horse things within the law – clean tack, clean stalls, learn to fix things around the barn (all which will be needed in your own barn anyway!); help clean pens on a farm; grow some herbs and sell things from it. Catnip is easy to grow and you can make and sell cat toys from it. Make birdhouses, birdfeeders and bat houses and sell them. Grow sunflowers and other things for birds and make/sell ‘natural’ things to feed the birds.

If you’re willing to work and be creative there’s lots of things a 13 year old can learn to do and make money.

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Bottle caps in general are not considered recyclable, because most major waste management recycling agencies do not accept them. In theory, however, anything is recyclable– most companies just need an extremely vast quantity of one material to make it profitable, and sometimes the process itself for a specific type of material is more expensive than it’s actually worth. These are reasons why most agencies do not recycle bottle caps. They’re so small it’s hard to get enough of them together to make it worth their while.
My point is, the fact that any group (for-profit or not) is taking the time to recycle bottle caps is pretty awesome. I don’t think we should be concerned with whether they’re making a profit off of it or not– all recycling agencies exist to make a profit. Instead we should be glad that someone is willing to do the job! Aveda is a particularly eco-minded company, especially for the makeup/body products industry, so I think they deserve our business for being so much more environmentally responsible than others.
That’s my two cents. Hope that helps!

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Bagger, or Bag boy, is an unofficial title given to courtesy clerks at supermarkets. The primary duties of a bagger revolve around putting groceries into a bag and then into a shopping cart. Upon requests, baggers may take the groceries out to a customer’s car or supply other forms of service. Some baggers in stores will do this unless the customer refuses and wishes to bring their own groceries out. Depending on the store, other duties may include cleaning the store, cleaning the bathrooms, collecting carts, sweeping the store, fixing and maintaining the bottle recycling machines, giving customer assistance, putting items customers initially intended to purchase but changed their mind about at the register back on the shelf (usually called “back shop” or “returns”), and reorganizing products on aisles to make a more neat appearance (commonly called “blocking”, “facing” or “conditioning”). The duties vary vastly depending on the store and union regulations, and some of previous duties in fact, are actually prohibited from being done at some stores by a courtesy clerk due to union contracts. The title of bagger is the result of an extensive evolution of the position of “courtesy clerk”. The title “bag boy” was adopted for some time, until it was finally shortened to “bagger”.

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The only way to keep the maggots at bay is to make sure that flies can’t get onto your rubbish to lay their eggs.

If you throw away food make sure that it is sealed up in a plastic bag before you put it in the bin. I use old supermarket carrier bags to do the job. It helps to keep the smells down as well.

We try to recycle as much as possible and for us we have rubbish picked up one week and all recyclable stuff the next. Works well for us as we have space away from the house where we can keep our bins.

And yes …. I agree that we seem to pay more and more council tax every year and get less in return.

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Recycle. Yea i know what your dilemma is and don’t enjoy it either. If i could save money normally i could build up enough to stand on and pay back what i ve been supported on.but that has no relevance for reasons unknown.and in fact is frowned on cause if they don’t have all the sufferers then there’s less jobs for the competent ones that approve of our “types” situation.wish you well.keep it under the radar !!!

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Not a viable way to make money. You would have better luck making a lemonade stand, although it might be creepy if you are over the age of 12. I am guessing you are. Just keep applying to jobs and go to the interviews like you mean to be a hard worker. Then if you get hired, be a hard worker. In europe you can make some decent $$$ collecting bottles since they have an awesome recycling program. More like $ though. Not $$$. Except everyone in europe collects their own bottles so it might be more difficult to find them.

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That was soooo funny!!!! LOL!!! Star for you!! How about this one:

THE COMPUTER SWALLOWED GRANDMA

This is a tribute to all the Grandmas and Grandpas who have been fearless and learned to use the computer.

The computer swallowed grandma. Yes, honestly it’s true!
She pressed ‘control’ and ‘enter’ and disappeared from view.

It devoured her completely, the thought just makes me squirm.
She must have caught a virus or been eaten by a worm.

I’ve searched through the Recycle Bin and files of every kind;
I’ve even used the Internet, but nothing did I find.

In desperation, I asked Google my searches to refine.
The reply from him was negative, not a thing was found ‘online.’

So, if inside your ‘Inbox,’ my Grandma you should see,
Please ‘Copy’, ‘Scan’ and ‘Paste’ her and send her back to me!

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Everyone i’m sure can point to they’re own industry and claim they are the cats meow, but if you really want good information you will have to cross-reference your info to get the real deal. No one that is all the rage about recycling is going to admit that the process isn’t very conserving of energy. The fact is that it takes more energy to recycle than to make an item new. The only reason we do recycle though is that people in the future will continue to want they’re soda, pre packaged foods, etc so in recycling an already existing can, we might use more energy to do so, but it minimizes waste sent to a landfill, it avoids us having to find some new deposit, extracting it from the earth, and perhaps in the process digging up a pristine environment to create a new can.
Obviously with more energy expended to conserve finite resources or minimize the impact of garbage on landfills, we may use monies that could have gone elsewhere, thus being one drain on the economic equation, but when one consideres the added jobs that may be required to produce that added energy, or the revenue the utility company will gain to make for a profitable company, the equation becomes a bit harder to interpret without lengthy investigation.

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Yes most of your answers have it correct, this has been on going for years.
I am a contract worker (control systems) self employed. I had a call one day asking if I had experience of a ‘floculator’ for water plant, a new plant being built and they wanted it commissioned.
I said of course I do! I hadn’t got a clue, but if it was some sort of control and instrument system I could handle it?
I did a lot of work on the sewerage plant, then came this ‘flockulator’ thing. I read all the books looked at all the drawings , it was a glorified skimming paddle situated on the top of a large water container, its purpose was to skim off the floatng poo and misc debry floating on top of the water that had been pumped in from the main sewer.
All my tests were done with just water, no actual sewerage in the system at that time I threw a few ‘floaters’ into the water , bits of packing material, just to prove the thing worked, it did, mission fulfilled.
I moved on to another job.
A couple of weeks later I had a call from the water company , would I be interested in a full time job with them , every thing was now in action crap was flying about all over the place.
I thanked them for the offer but declined, could you just imagine it? UGH UGH and UGH!!!
What would you pack up to take as your lunch every day? UGH!!!

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The reality is you are drinking sewage effluent anyway albiet in a very diluted form when the water is taken in from a surface source such as a river. I work in a wastewater treatment plant and believe it or not the effluent we discharge is about 100x cleaner than the river water the drinking water plant pulls into it’s intake that it treats for for people to consume. The treatment process has become so much better than in years past. The water is at the end of the process is filtered and chlorinated and then dechlorinated with sulpher dioxide and then discharged to the river. All of the nasty’s have effectively been removed. I would rather take this effluent and pipe it straight into a drinking water plant than pull the raw river water out of some of the most polluted rivers in the world…much easier to treat and you would get a more consistant treatment. Crypto needs a food source and polluted rivers are full of it. Treated effluent is not. If you have time take a tour of a drinking water plant or a wastewater treatment facility and see for yourself how the process works. You will feel more at ease once you are educated in how it really works.
Sorry I misunderstood. In the US they had a crypto breakout in Milwaukee in 1993. There were lawsuits filed and damages awarded. People lost their jobs and even the operators on duty were named in the lawsuit. This difference is however they were not drinking effluent from a wastewater plant, but there was operator error. I’m not sure if just the fact drinking water made from effluent would open up a legal minefield. However, if someone gets sick from it and it could be traced to human error, the litigation would be justified. I know the media would have a field day with it. If in the case people became sick in Sydney and the treatment process was robust and they were using the accepted principles and practices, rules and regulations were not broken, and procedures followed, winning a lawsuit might be shaky at best because it is then classified as an “Act of God”. You know as well as I do you don’t sue God and win. For insurance companies and other firms this is a huge loophole and in order to win a lawsuit like this you have to prove human error somewhere down the line.

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Today Darrell Issa drilled Eric Holder on exactly what a “green job” was. It will likely be all over the news.

Bus driver: yes
Bus driver mechanic: yes
Bicycle shop salesman: yes
Garbage truck recycler: yes
Antique dealer: yes

(The antique dealer is considered a “green job” because they recycle old stuff.)

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The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation (Hardcover)
by Michael Medved

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“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble,nineteenth-century humorist Josh Billings remarked. “It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.”

In this bold and brilliantly argued book, acclaimed author and talk-radio host Michael Medved zeroes in on ten of the biggest fallacies that millions of Americans believe about our country—in spite of incontrovertible facts to the contrary. In The 10 Big Lies About America, Medved pinpoints the most pernicious pieces of America-bashing disinformation that pollute current debates about the economy, race, religion in politics, the Iraq war, and other contentious issues.

The myths that Medved deftly debunks include:

Myth: The United States is uniquely guilty for the crime of slavery and based its wealth on stolen African labor.

Fact: The colonies that became the United States accounted for, at most, 3 percent of the abominable international slave trade; the persistence of slavery in America slowed economic progress; and the U.S. Deserves unique credit for ending slavery.

Myth: The alarming rise of big business hurts the United States and oppresses its people.

Fact: Corporations played an indispensable role in building America, and corporate growth has brought progress that benefits all with cheaper goods and better jobs.

Myth: The Founders intended a secular, not Christian, nation.

Fact: Even after ratifying the Constitution, fully half the state governments endorsed specific Chris­tian denominations. And just a day after approving the First Amendment, forbidding the establishment of religion, Congress called for a national “day of public thanksgiving and prayer” to acknowledge “the many signal favors of Almighty God.”

Myth: A war on the middle class means less comfort and opportunity for the average American.

Fact: Familiar campaign rhetoric about the victimized middle class ignores the overwhelming statistical evidence that the standard of living keeps rising for every segment of the population, as well as the real-life experience of tens of millions of middle-class Americans.

Each of the ten lies—widely believed among elites and taught as truth in universities and public schools—is a grotesque, propagandistic distortion of the historical record. For everyone who is tired of hearing America denigrated by people who don’t know what they’re talking about, The 10 Big Lies About America supplies the ammunition necessary to fire back the next time somebody tries to recycle these baseless beliefs. Medved’s witty, well-documented rebuttal is a refreshing reminder that as Americans we should feel blessed, not burdened, by our heritage.

So, it’s just a great book for what you’re looking for

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Yes I Know The Facts
Larry Silverstein Purchased The WTC Within A Year Of The Attacks And 6 Months B4 The Attacks(9/11), He Insured The WTC Complex For A RECORD 7 BILLION $$(With A Clause In The Policy SPECIFICALLY Covering A TERRORIST ATTACK)

Well.. Mr. Silverstein Recently Purchased The Sears Tower And A Short Time Ago, Insured It For ANOTHER RECORD(UnDisclosed)Amount….

The SECURITY For WTC Was Provided By (Get This) MARVIN BUSH
A Brother To George W And Jeb(Which May Explain How The FOLLOWING May Have Occurred)

It Is Being Investigated That The Buildings Were RIGGED For CONTROLLED FALL( Which Would Have Taken MONTHS)
Including Building #7 (Which Was NOT HIT BY A PLANE And Had Minimal Fire Damage)
It Has Been Stated By Structural Engineers(Independant Of The Hokey Investigation By The Bush Crime Family)That It WAS NOT POSSIBLE That WTC 1 and 2 COLLAPSED From The Impact Of The Planes That Hit Them
The REASON BLDG 7 Was Destroyed Was To Conceal The EVIDENCE That The Buildings Were Dropped From A Control Bunker In The Basement(Where The Technicians “Ignited The Fuses” So To Speak)
It Is VERY Difficult To PROVE As The EVIDENCE Of These Crimes ( THE DEBRIS FROM THE COLLAPSES)Were HURRIED AWAY TO CHINA For RECYCLING After The Disaster
The So Called TERRORISTS That Were SUPPOSEDLY Flying Those Planes (Mohammed Atta And His 19 Friends) Well..16 Of The 19 Are In Fact Proven ALIVE With The Other 3 UnAccounted For ,But Presumed ALIVE
It Has Been Speculated That The 2 Planes Tht Hit The Towers Were Remotely Operated By The Military With NOONE Aboard
Flight 93 (The One That “CRASHED” In PA) Is In Fact STILL In Service
And At This Time , There Is NO EVIDENCE That A Plane Crashed Into The Pentagon, Although Something(A US Tomahawk Missile???) Did Fly Into And Destroy A Portion Of It

What Ive Told You Is In EVIDENCE In A Theory Behind The Trade Center Attack Being An INSIDE JOB ORCHESTRATED By The BUSH Crime Family , And BLAMED On TERRORISTS So That Bush Could ILLEGALLY Go To War(Without The Approval Of Congress)

For MORE On This See: Alex Jones At Ground Zero

http://martiallaw911.info/video.htm…

See Also: Loose Change 2nd Edition (Google It)

IMPEACH BUSH NOW

http://www.world-action.co.uk/explosives.html

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0204-06.htm

http://www.realestatejournal.com/propertyreport/newsandtrends/20040312-starkman.html

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/200306charliesheen.htm

http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/collapse%20update/index.htm

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2005/070805alternativemedia.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/1559151.stm

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2005/160605governmentcomplicit.htm

http://martiallaw911.info/video.htm

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1.) About one-third of transplanted kidneys come from living relatives and about two-thirds are from someone who recently died.

2.) The kidneys perform their life-sustaining job of filtering and returning to the bloodstream about 200 quarts of fluid every 24 hours. About two quarts are removed from the body in the form of urine, and about 198 quarts are recovered. The urine we excrete has been stored in the bladder for anywhere from 1 to 8 hours.

3.) Your kidneys receive about 120 pints of blood per hour.

4.) Over 400 gallons of recycled blood is pumped through your kidneys every day.

5.) Half of one kidney could do the work that two kidneys
usually do.

6.) 20 million Americans – 1 in 9 US adults – have Chronic Kidney Disease and another 20 million more are at increased risk.

7.) Your kidneys represent about 0.5% of the total weight of the body, but receive 20–25% of the total arterial blood pumped by the heart.

8.) Each kidney contains from one to two million nephrons.

9.) Over 1.5 million individuals around the world receive dialysis or have had a kidney transplant.

10.) More than 500 million persons worldwide – 10% of the adult population – have some form of kidney damage, and every year millions die prematurely of cardiovascular diseases linked to Chronic Kidney Disease.

11.) A single kidney with only 75 percent of its functional capacity can sustain life very well. If only one kidney is present, that kidney can adjust to filter as much as two kidneys would normally. In such a situation, the nephrons compensate individually by increasing in size–a process known as hypertrophy–to handle the extra load.

12.) If one functional kidney is missing from birth, the other kidney can grow to reach a size similar to the combined weight of two kidneys (about one pound).

13.) After 40 the kidney nephrons stop functioning at a rate of 1 percent per year. The remaining nephrons tend to enlarge and fully compensate for this demise.

14.) Placed end to end, the nephrons of one kidney would stretch about 8 km that equals nearly 5 miles.

15.) In 1933 Russian surgeon Yuri Voronoy performed the first human kidney transplant in Kiev, Ukraine, it failed.

16.) In December 1954, Dr.Joseph E. Murray performed the world’s first successful kidney transplant between identical twins at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.

17.) In the U.S. In 2005 there were over 60,000 people on the waiting list for a kidney.

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Did you know that is the literal interpretation of “Beelzebub”?

Lord of the flies

The Lord recycles everything. This is a primary job of flies. They eat necrotic flesh and other creatures eat flies.

Its called the food chain

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1. I have always excelled in the math and sciences. When I was a sophomore in college, I began working in a research lab for some extra money. I loved what I was doing and have been doing it ever since.

2. I am a researcher. I am currently studying the impact of a cellular recycling process called autophagy on the innate immune system with respect to aging. I also studied infectious diseases. I currently plan experiments, have the lab technicians and undergraduates (or more so me running experiments these days) in my lab run the experiments, I analyze the data, and report the findings. I also teach an undergraduate course in microbiology.

3. If you want me to elaborate on above — contact me. I do not want to confuse you.

4. The most difficult thing about my job is dealing with the disappointment of failure. When you are working in cutting edge science the failure rate of experiments is very high.

5. Aren’t all scientists boring nerds that wear tweed jackets and thick glasses? One interesting event…we published in Nature, not a big deal for you but huge for us.

6. I went into the Navy after high school. I don’t remember taking biology classes in high school, just chemistry and physics. I must have, but I don’t remember.

7. I am constantly reading about new discoveries in my field. At my level the pace of research is so fast that textbooks cannot keep up, so we report our findings and read the findings of others in journals. Think of it as communicating via magazine articles.

8. I have been doing this for about a decade. Things are constantly changing in research science.

9. I studied science and mathematics majoring in biochemistry and microbiology as an undergraduate. That set the foundation to pursue my graduate degrees.

10. I work very long hours for little money. However, I am surrounded by some of the smartest people in the world discovering things that could have tremendous impact on humanity. There is something to be said for being the first person on earth to unlock one of nature’s small secrets and then sharing it with the world.

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Green Collar jobs would be jobs working in green energy. Like building or installing solar panels and wind mills, new ways to use recycled materials. Those are just two examples among a list of many potential jobs and opportunities. The reason they are a good idea is 1) We need a new job market in America, with most jobs blue collar being shipped to other countries, we need something that we can train people for that they can begin immediately. 2) We have got to change our energy and how we get, how we use it, etc. Not just for the fact that energy costs have gone through the roof, but also to save our environment so we don’t completely destroy our planet with pollution and waste.

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In America, on the homefront, recycling may have gotten started, although it did not catch on again for decades. Cans, paper, tires, all were saved and picked up to be used for the war effort.

Americans had to have blackout curtains on their windows, black curtains that could keep any light from the house from getting out, because it was thought that if the Germans or Japanese ever got over here to bomb us, the lights from cities would tell them where they were if they attacked at night. Air Raid Wardens in the neighborhood had to go around and make sure there was not light showing, nobody could smoke outside because the fire might give them away. (My Grandfather was an air raid warden in his neighborhood, my family used to joke that he did such a good job we were never bombed)

A man who was ‘4-F” or not qualified for the draft, often because of some health problem (although some were Gay, but rarely openly) were often mistreated and made fun of. So was anybody who was a Conscientious Objector and would not fight because of religious or moral reasons. But many of them became medics or took other jobs in which they could save lives but not have to kill.

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The one thing to make sure of is your safety and believe me, babysitting is not an ideal job no matter what age you are. The problem that I see is your request for “a lot of money” because are you talking thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you are, you are not being realistic and when you’re not realistic you won’t reach the goals because they cannot be reached. You should be able to make a hundred or a couple of hundred dollars a month fairly easily. What are your skills? What are your interests??? You can teach or write about things that interest you and that others would like to learn more about. You can set up a recycling center for your neighbors to collect and sell newspaper, cans, scrap metals, bottles, etc. What about taking pictures with a camera and turning the designs into tshirts or calendars or other photo gifts that you can sell for a profit? What about some kind of crafts that you and your friends can make??? Why not set up a babysitting service in which you have older kids doing the work while you make money off the referals??? Why not buy and sell non toxic cleaning products or those energy efficient light bulbs??? People buy or hire to make money, save money, save time or get peace of mind. What products or services can you provide that will help your potential customers get results for their problems or needs??? Think things out. Your parents can help you set up a legitimate business and they can get tax credits while you make what could be “a lot of money.” There have been many successful businesses that started out at home … Why not yours??? Your library will have alot of books that will help to educate and inspire you with facts. Check them out!!!

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Recycling provides a great service to individuals, to society, and to the environment. These 7 benefits of recycling may explain why it is important both locally and nationally:

1. Recycling provides financial Benefits

2. Recycling helps conserve limited resources

3. Recycling helps save energy

4. Recycling helps build community

5. Recycling helps create jobs

6. Recycling helps promote a strong economy

7. Recycling helps protect the environment

For an more information about each of these benefits, please visit my source at:

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Here are a list of jobs that are available in recycling as followed:

Waste Recycling Manager
Most jobs in waste recycling industry are managerial roles, as sorting machines are gradually replacing sorters and factory workers. A waste recycling manager can find a job in municipal solid waste departments and private waste management companies. Responsibilities of a waste recycling manager include overseeing staff activities in diverse areas like waste collection and disposal; working closely with other departments such as public education; and managing the recycling premises.

Waste Collector
By collecting recyclable trash, the waste collector provides an important link between the public and the recycling industry as the door-collection services have become increasingly available even in small towns. Waste collector positions often require little formal education, as recycling facilities generally offer full training. Collecting only the specific recyclable waste bags, thus avoiding contamination by other types of non-recyclable waste, is the main responsibility of a waste collector.

Waste Recycling Operative
A waste recycling operative or sorter is responsible for waste classification according to material, such as glass, metal, plastic and paper. Recycling companies can sort waste more specifically; for example, they can separate different types of plastic or metal. Although sorting machines can perform most of the work of a waste recycling operative, role is still important in areas where such facilities are not available.

Public Educator
Educating people about the benefits of waste reduction and recycling is the most important role of the public educator–a job that suits people with educational or environmental degree backgrounds. In the recycling industry, a public educator is a person who works with the community, schools and various associations, informing adults and children about the long-term environmental impacts of solid waste and how to separate household waste. The job also involves the planning and execution of educational campaigns and materials.

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Recycling requires more jobs in the United States and local area which puts more people at a decent job. Recycling also allows for us to cut dependency on other countries for certain resources that we can produce here from recycled material. Recycling preserves our forests and countries resources so that if there is a threat to the United States we have a great pool of resources to defend ourselves and is not being used to people can wipe their asses with virgin wood.

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Our town had a big dumpster bin that a semi pulled into a village parking lot empty, then would pull it out in two weeks full. We had to take our recyclables there, sort them, and put them in the proper receptacles in the dumpster. If you took them once a week it was an easy job.

Now, due to people putting stuff in that was not recyclable, like aluminum lawn chairs, and such, the fee for this service tripled, and the village has canceled it’s service. So just know that it is important to only put in that which you know to be recyclable.

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Yes, recycling is totally worth it.. I did an 8 page research paper on it just last semester. The information I found was excellent.. People claim that recycling isn’t worth it because of OLD technology.. That made it so it wasn’t worth it..
NOW most common recycling plants use lasers to sense the different types of materials, as well as sort them by hand and some other techniques. There have been all kinds of scams by people trying to make money and will say they can dispose of something properly and don’t. Now the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has a lot stricter guideliness and do monitor those things. So just because it HAS in the past been a scam it is rare to find them now.

Also recycling has actually become very profitable for cities, that is the cities where people actually participate in the recycling programs. The more and more people recycle.. The more and more profitable it is to have the program and are able to sell them and remake them into other marketable commodities. Think about it.. The more you recycle, the more worthwhile it is for the trucks to be picking up from every house. The people who don’t make any effort are the reason a recycling program wouldn’t be beneficial financially.
But any effort is beneficial environmentally.

AND RECYCLING ACCOUNTS FOR MORE JOBS THAN FAST FOOD INDUSTRYAND HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY WHICH ARE SOME OF THE LARGEST JOB PRODUCERS IN THE COUNTRY!! AND IT IS ALSO HAS HIGH PAY ROLL

Id be more than happy to show you some statistics on them.

Well-run recycling programs cost less to operate than waste collection, landfilling, and incineration.

The more people recycle, the cheaper it gets.

Two years after calling recycling a $40 million drain on the city, New York City leaders realized that a redesigned, efficient recycling system could actually save the city $20 million and they have now signed a 20-year recycling contract.

Recycling helps families save money, especially in communities with pay-as-you-throw programs.

Well-designed programs save money. Communities have many options available to make their programs more cost-effective, including maximizing their recycling rates, implementing pay-as-you-throw programs, and including incentives in waste management contracts that encourage disposal companies to recycle more and dispose of less.

[ANYONE WHO THINGS RECYCLING IS A WASTE OF TIME OR MONEY IS MISINFORMED OR JUST IGNORANT!]

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I was fortunate enough to be able to see two recycling projects first hand at some schools in Texas. These particular projects were chosen with the purpose of giving students a hands on experience of seeing how the efforts of individuals can impact the overall community.

Two of the best recycling projects I have seen schools successfully run and enthusiastically championed by the schools and their student body are the following:

The “Shoe Shak”

Students were encouraged to bring their used, outgrown shoes that were in good to great conditon to donate. I heard stories over the years from kids that had donated a once “favorite” pair of shoes.

Some students expressed how good it made them feel to know that their outgrown, “favorite” wasn’t just being thrown away but given another chance to be a favorite in someone else’s life once again. Kids would tell how they stayed up late the night before cleaning up the shoes they had brought in or tell how they bought new laces for a pair of tennis shoes that were otherwise almost new.

The student council would go over the shoes every month, which were deposited into one of about 3 large wooden bins (sized like a U.S. Postal mailbox with open slots just below the top, painted like a tropical hut or shack) built by a few dads, to clean and sort them before donating them to an “adopted” school in the city.

Because the program was so enthusiastically contributed to, eventually their were so many shoes donated from this and other district schools, that the shoes went to children outside the district as well. It has been going on for 11 years now.

The “Book Boat”

Another ongoing successful project I’ve seen in 2 schools is one they named the “Book Boat”.

Like the shoes, students were encouraged to bring paperback and hardback books they were finished reading. Students were told they could include a short note (which encouraged use of their grammer and writing skills) to tell what they liked about the book if they wished.

Over a period of about two years, it became a solid tradition for students to donate a favorite (some brought new books) book on their birthday as well.

Many students in other schools whose parents didn’t have the resources to purchase personally owned books for their kids, received books on a regular basis.

One recipient school gave every child a new “used” book once a month and finished school by giving each child (even the older ones who were graduating to a different school) 3-4 books to enjoy for the summer. For many students, this was their only reading opportunity as their parents worked too many jobs to take them to the library, didn’t encourage reading, or didn’t have the transportation.

The first school to recieve the donated books, which piled high in plastic Little Tikes boats (sold as sandboxes) positioned in the donating school’s hallways, had writing and sharing programs the first week of new school years in which kids would write and then read their essay about “where they went” over summer vacation. Their “trips” to be written about centered on a book they read. The students had been told previously how a book could take you to another land, culture or neighborhood and how you could mentally escape on a fantasy vacation through a book.

Though these programs didn’t bring money into schools, they gave the students the ability to experience first hand the benefits, successes and joys of recycling and the chance to learn that there are payoffs other than money that can motivate us to put forth our efforts and dedication to a recycling project and how recycling helps a whole community rather than just one individual.

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Recycling helps conserve limited resources.
Recycling is earth friendly.
Recycling creates job.

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“BTW; I don’t recycle (plastic bottles/cans/paper) b/c it was a dumb idea to begin with if you consider all of the pollution associated w/ recycling.”

So everything that could be recycled should go into the landfill, correct?

Your waste that you produce should pale compared to what could be recycled. You should be producing more recyclables than items that are waste and end-up in a landfill.

Look at what you are putting through the waste stream vs. What you could put through the recycling stream.
If you composted your food(yes I know not everyone has this luxury) bought a stainless steel bottle for water(plastic bottles are not good for you), put your name on a list not to receive junk mail, and cut back on you consumption or “reduce” your consumption of products that use aluminum cans to hold their product. Just a few ways of not contributing to waste or recycling.

Transportation doesn’t have to impact the environment. CO2 impact can be reduced if the nation’s largest haulers could do an alternative fuel(bio-fuels, CNG, and hopefully soon will be algae). Maintenance on these vehicles is a necessary evil, if you think about the alternative on not taking care of the vehicles(blown engines, bad brakes that could kill someone, and checking proper fluid levels). Most of the fluids drained from a vehicle should be recycled and metals(disc brakes) can be recycled also.

Producing the receptacles for storing the recyclables. I bet if you did a Life Cycle Analysis of a receptacle, you would be shocked at the benefits vs. Just the cost(economic and environmental) to create the receptacle.

Recycling diverts material that would end-up in a landfill instead. When a landfill is done, it’s done. Garbage haulers have to then travel farther to get rid of the waste and guess what, costs get passed onto us, the producer. A town of aprx. 5,000 residents produces close to 800 tons of recyclables. Could you imagine 800 tons just being tossed into a landfill and we’ll just let the next generation worry about it.

Recycling also creates jobs at so many levels.

I disagree with recycling is Bullsh*t and we shouldn’t let the next generation figure out why we screwed things up for them. Let’s try to be sustainable now for the future.

Thanks

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THE BENEFITS OF RECYCLING

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YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Recycling Saves Natural Resources
Recycling Saves Energy
Recycling Saves our Environment
Recycling Adds Value to Pennsylvania’s Economy
Recycling is Good Business

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YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Environmental problems have become so complex that many individuals feel they can have no effect on them. Problems like global warming, hazardous waste, loss of rain forests, endangered species, acid rain, the ozone layer, the municipal waste crisis can feel out of our control. At the very least, these problems require group and corporate action or government intervention.

But there are some things the individual can control. Our waste reduction and recycling activities can make a difference. That’s why nearly 1,600 Pennsylvania communities recycle, over three times the number required to recycle by Act 101.

Benefits of Recycling
Recycling benefits both the environment and the economy. The next time you recycle your plastic bottle, aluminum can, or newspaper, remember how you are part of the solution.

Environmental Benefits

Using recycled materials in the manufacturing process conserves energy, saves natural resources, and reduces pollution.

Conserves Energy
Using recycled materials as raw materials to make new products saves a significant amount of energy. Here’s how much these materials save compared to their virgin counterparts.

Recycled newspaper uses 40% less energy.
Recycled glass uses 40% less energy.
Recycled steel uses 60% less energy.
Recycled plastic uses 70% less energy.
Recycled aluminum uses 95% less energy.
Saves Natural Resources
Using recycled materials means we can log fewer forests, mine fewer metals, and drill for less oil.

Every ton of newspaper or mixed paper recycled saves the equivalent of 12 trees.
Every ton of office paper recycled saves the equivalent of 24 trees.
Every ton of steel recycled conserves 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal, and 120 pounds of limestone.
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The national recycling rate of 30% reduces greenhouse gas emissions by as much as removing nearly 25 million cars from the road.

In 2007, Hamilton County residents recycled 31,985 tons of material. The environmental benefits include:

Reduced greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to removing 21,095 cars from the road
Conserved energy equivalent to 1,744,119 gallons of gasoline
Saved 967 tons of natural resources
Saved 274,042 trees
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Economic Benefits

Many residents understand the environmental benefits of recycling, but did you know recycling also has economic benefits?

The recycling industry has a total economic impact of 169,000 jobs and $6 billion in annual wages, just in the state of Ohio.
The recycling industry accounts for $7.3 billion in annual sales, just in the state of Ohio.
Recycling supplies valuable materials to industry.

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Our government is a good example of “hangat tahi ayam”, what they did also last for 3 minutes only. When the wind came through the minister mind (or when they wanna make extra money), they’ll promote the 3R campaign so hot and you can see the advertistment, posters all around, the recycle bin suddenly appear too.

But after the one month heat, everything fade off. The posters became rubbish (the rubbish increasing), advertistment is missing (save the advertistment fee inside their pocket), recycle bin became normal bin because people just throw anything inside it.

In some area, our government gave money to those people who recycle. This may make the recycle plan success, but I hope the Malaysians recycle from their heart, not for money only. We still have a long way to go on recycle issue.

I agree with Gab, the private non profit organizations did a lot more better than the government.

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Well, there are Air Quality Jobs, Biofuel Jobs, Clean Energy Jobs, Cleantech Jobs, Climate Change Jobs, Climate Policy Jobs, CSR Jobs, Ecology Jobs, EHS Jobs, Energy Auditor Jobs, Energy Efficiency Jobs, Energy Storage Jobs, Environmental Jobs, Environmental Consulting Jobs, Environmental Law Jobs, Fair Trade Jobs, Farming Jobs, Fitness Jobs, Geologist Jobs, Green Building Jobs, Green Collar Jobs, Green Construction Jobs, HVAC Jobs, Hydrologist Jobs, LEED Jobs, Microfinance Jobs, Naturalist Jobs, Nonprofit Jobs, Philanthropy Jobs, Recycling Jobs, Renewable Energy Jobs, Smart Grid Jobs, Social Enterprise Jobs, Solar Jobs, Sustainability Jobs, Sustainable Ag. Jobs, Water Conservation Jobs, Weatherization Jobs, Wind Power Jobs.

Unfortunately, looks like you need an education for most of these. Better luck next time.

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There are many recycling companies in the UK that are doing a good job. They not only recycle your recyclable items, but also pay you for that. I have been using GreenTech’s services for recycling my empty printer cartridges. They collect your cartridges for free and then even pay you for that according to the worth of your cartridges. Many, schools, charities and individuals have used cartridge recycling to raise funds.

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There is a lot of recycling in apts and condos. Its the street (city govt) and businesses that do a really crappy job recycling.

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Tetra pack orange cartons will not be accepted for cardboard recycling because they have a wax outer coating, which is incompatible with standard paper and cardboard.

Cat food pouches are not accepted because whilst the plastic itself is recyclable, the fact that it is impossible to get the inside of them properly clean means that when you melt up the plastic along with the other polythene scrap, you get pieces of catfood stuck in the mixture! The scrap polyethylene is melted to around 180°C during recycling, which isn’t anywhere near high enough to burn off the cat food residue.

It is rather ironic that pouches are often marketed as being “Better for the environment” – they are actually worse for the environment than old fashioned tins! Tins can be recycled as the temperature of molten metal burns off any impurities left inside, pouches simply get land-filled. They are a cheaper type of packaging for the manufacturer to use though – a great bit of marketing, but ultimately a con.

Cardboard cartons probably are not worth recycling anyway. Most cardboard comes from renewable forest sources anyway, and it takes more energy to recycle cardboard than to make new.

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Recycling, I herd jobs like that offer lots of benefits.

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5 Important Reasons Why Louisiana Should Recycle

Saves Natural Resources – By making products from recycled materials instead of virgin materials, we conserve land and reduce the need to drill for oil and dig for minerals.

Saves Energy – It usually takes less energy to make recycled products; recycled aluminum, for example, takes 95% less energy than new aluminum from bauxite ore.

Saves Clean Air and Water – In most cases, making products from recycled materials creates less air pollution and water pollution than making products from virgin materials.

Saves Landfill Space – When the materials that you recycle go into new products, they don’t go into landfills or incinerators, so landfill space is conserved.

Saves Money and Creates Jobs – The recycling process creates far more jobs than landfills or incinerators, and recycling can frequently be the least expensive waste management method for cities and towns.

The Expert answers:

Get some large trash bags and start like that. Then ask your parents again to show them that you’re serious and maybe they’ll get you one. Besides, isn’t it the law now that you have to have a recycling bin? Has it been enforced where you live yet? Hope this helps. If they still don’t get a recycling bin then let them know that you will continue to recycle. If they worry about clutter and it looking messy, then tell them it would help if they got a recycling bin. Lol. What harm can this do? And look at all the benefits of recycling. Good job going Green! 🙂

The Expert answers:

While recycling has become part of the daily routine for many people, the full importance of recycling is not always understood. In general, people do understand that recycling helps to minimize the drain on the limited resources of our planet. However, there are several other factors that make recycling important. Here are a few other reasons why recycling is extremely important to our world today.

One of the great things about recycling is that the process helps to minimize the presence of waste materials in our communities. Because items such as glass, paper, and plastics are being reused to create new products, they do not end up taking up space in a landfill somewhere. Since most people are not interested in having a garbage dump located near their homes or offices, recycling makes it possible to avoid creating newer and larger landfills that would otherwise be necessary to accommodate all the waste.

While many people realize that recycling is good for the environment in terms of easing the demand on our limited resources, they may not realize that choosing to reuse and recycle items also makes it possible to cut the cost of producing products significantly. For example, it takes anywhere from seventy-five to ninety-five percent less energy to produce aluminum cans from recycled products than it does to create them from raw materials. Thus, the importance of recycling not only extends to preserving raw materials but also to easing the energy needed to manufacture various goods.

Another example of the importance of recycling has to do with the creation of new jobs. As more people recycle, the number of people required to collect, sort and process recycled items continues to grow. More jobs in the community means more money spent in local stores, more taxes collected for the city or town, and in general a healthier economy for everyone concerned.

The importance of recycling also extends to maintaining a healthy balance in the ecology of the planet. By not having to mine raw materials in order to continue producing the same volume of products, there is less damage to our rivers, forests, and areas where wildlife is abundant. Since every form of life on the planet is dependent on the presence of another form of life, maintaining an ecological balance is key to providing security for the generations to come.

Think about all the reasons behind recycling the next time you begin to wonder if your meager contribution really makes a difference. The combined efforts of all people to recycle do in fact make a huge difference in our world. Look around your community and you are likely to see first hand the importance of recycling to your city or town in several different ways.

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In the case of copier paper, it is simply due to the fact that there is not quite the same economy of scale (cost per unit decreases as number of units increases), but more importantly, it is because it is more difficult to ensure an acceptable level of quality with non-virgin (e.g. Recyceld) raw material. Because of this difficulty, a lot of the finished product has to be “reworked” or sent back to be shredded and pulped again due to inferior quality; this is a significant production cost because it requires doing the same job over and over (though the rework/scrap rate is maybe only 10% versus maybe 5% for a virgin source process).

In the case of steel, actually, recycled steel is much cheaper because it is relatively easy to ensure quality, and because there is a large scale, efficient recycling system for steel (and other metals).

Therefore, not everything that is recycled is more expensive, but it often is because there is just not a mature, efficient system to do recycling, and because quality control issues area significant problem.

The Expert answers:

Our planet and all those who live here are the beneficiaries. Do I buy into the global warming??? I don’t feel I have done enough research on it to give an intellegent answer. So I will answer from my heart. I started recycling w/a grudge. I had to pay for it (not much mind you) whether I recycled or not, so I gave in. Now I cringe when I am out and have to throw something away because there is no recycle container available. I know how much my family of 6 has decreased waste. We used to have about 3 cans full (1 being a large one on wheels), sometimes 4, every week. Now sometimes we don’t even fill the large one. Stupid ppl have since helped stop the recycle program in our town (door to door pick-up). Now I have to take the recycled items in town to a large bin (they don’t take glass, so I try and reuse those if possible). It makes a mess in the back yard sometimes (with the wind), but when I think of how much less is going into the landfill by my family doing this, I must press on. We are such a wasteful nation and it’s time to realize our children’s children may not have a healthy place to live if we all don’t start doing SOMETHING, no matter how small. I have switched many (not all) of my light bulbs to those more efficient bulbs (but ppl need to know it costs more to turn those on than the regular bulbs, so if it’s a light that gets switched on and off a lot, you aren’t necessarily doing a good thing, this is the part where we must use our brains). I have also become more aware of the paper issue. I will continue the toilet paper…lol , but I am so much more aware of the fact that every time I tear a paper towel off the holder, it better be for a good reason. I buy the bounty select a size paper towels so I don’t have to use a big one, if the job only calls for a small one. We can use washable napkins. If I get a lot of napkins from a fast food restaurant, I don’t throw them away, I either put them in my glove box or take them home and use when I have a large amount of ppl over. It only takes little steps to help out. Will this help with global warming??? Who knows? But I can factually say it will save resources that will one day be gone if we all have a flipant attitude where recycling and conservation is concerned.

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Recycling creates 1.1 million U.S. Jobs, $236 billion in gross annual sales and $37 billion in annual payrolls.

It takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to make it from raw materials. Making recycled steel saves 60%, recycled newspaper 40%, recycled plastics 70%, and recycled glass 40%. These savings far outweigh the energy created as by-products of incineration and landfilling.

Aluminum – Recycled aluminum is made into new aluminum cans, pie pans, house siding, small appliances, lawn furniture—in fact, almost everything aluminum can be made from recycled aluminum.
* Recycling aluminum uses less than 5 percent of the energy used to make the original product.
* Recycling one aluminum beverage can saves enough energy to run a 100 watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, or a TV for 2 hours

Plastic – Recycled plastics are made into motor oil bottles, detergent bottles, pipes, pails, carpets, rulers, benches, pallets, fiberfill, nonfood bottles or containers, and even clothing.
* Producing new plastic from recycled material uses only two-thirds of the energy required to manufacture it from virgin raw materials.
* Five 2-liter recycled PET bottles produce enough fiberfill to make a ski jacket; 36 recycled bottles can make 1 square yard of carpet.

Glass – Recycled glass is made into new glass jars and bottles and other glass products such as fiberglass insulation.
* Producing glass from virgin materials requires 30 percent more energy than producing it from crushed, used glass.
* Recycling 1 ton of glass saves the equivalent of 10 gallons of oil.

Steel – Recycled steel is made into steel cans, building materials, and tools—in fact, almost everything steel can be made from recycled steel.
* Recycling steel cans uses between 60 and 74 percent less energy than producing them from raw materials.
* Using recycled steel to make new steel saves energy. In fact, the steel industry saves enough energy in one year to electrically power 18 million homes for one year.
* One ton of recycled steel saves the energy equivalent of 3.6 barrels of oil and 1.49 tons of iron ore.

Paper – Recycled paper is made into newspaper, tissue, paper towels, notebook paper, envelopes, copy paper and other paper products, as well as insulation, boxes, hydro-mulch, molded packaging, gypsum wallboard, compost, and even kitty litter.
* Producing recycled paper requires about 60 percent of the energy used to make paper from virgin wood pulp.
* Each of us uses approximately one 100-foot-tall Douglas fir tree in paper and wood products per year.
* Recycling 1 ton of paper saves 17 mature trees, 7,000 gallons of water, 3 cubic yards of landfill space, 2 barrels of oil, and 4,100 kilowatt hours of electricity—enough energy to power the average American home for five months.

The Expert answers:

Recycling is a scam! It is actually more harmful to the environment than responsible landfilling is. The short answer is, you will have a hard time finding someone to pay for your garbage (cardboard). With the exception of Aluminum, it is always more expensive to recycle material than it is to manufacture new material, which is why you have to pay for recycling, instead of getting paid to do it (again, with the exception of Aluminum cans). As far as your “wasting” paper goes, you are not wasting anything. Paper is made from trees, and trees are a renewable resource. It’s like saying you don’t eat french fries because we’ll run out of potatoes. The more demand there is for paper, the more trees get planted. In fact, recycling cannot even come close to filling the demand for paper, since only certain types can even be recycled, and only a certain number of times (up to 7). The best thing to do is throw your garbage away, and stop drinking the recycling propaganda kool-aid. It’s a scam!

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While 13 is too young to get a legal job working for an employer, she can hire herself out for income. What are her skills, interests and experiences? What needs has she found that she can solve with either products, services or a combination??? It’s one thing to want to make money but another to DO something about it. Traditional ways that kids make money are with housework, babysitting, yard work, and dog walking but there are many other ways. In fact, other than selling alcohol, tobacco or firearms, your sister can do almost anything that an adult can do in terms of selling products. It makes more sense for her to use her skills and interests than to get into something just for the money. People buy for four reasons… To make money, to save money, to save time, or for peace of mind. Those are the key factors of setting up a mission. Once she decides what to do she has to narrow down her products or services to determine WHO to sell to. She should think about a scrapbook service, a recycling center, computer training to younger kids, designing and printing unique tshirt designs, developing a brand and logo, learning and teaching or writing, selling energy efficient light bulbs, cleaning aquariums, planting flowers, making and selling crafts, website design for small businesses, refinishing furniture, organizing, cleaning garages, hosting yard sales, performing at kid’s parties, selling makeup, writing resumes for other teens, washing/vacuuming cars, painting rooms, hooking up computers or new electronic equipment for older people, or whatever she’s really into. Business is a journey so the learning never stops. She needs to be the best at whatever she intends to do. She can sell hub caps for cars that she finds on the side of the highway or imprint a 2009 calendar with photos of her cats/dogs/fish or her own crayon artwork. She could organize groups of younger kids for field trips to museums, plays. Movies, etc to give parents a break for a few hours. She can get a unique design imprinted on umbrellas or coffee mugs or aprons (branding) or she can sell educational or entertainment software or video games or coloring books and crayons or … Well, the list of products or services go on and on. Take a few minutes to help her list her hobbies and interests and the right thing will come. Once decided learn all she can about business laws, marketing, accounting, licenses, advertising, etc. Two things worth mentioning… The library has a number of good business books for teens and tweens… And … There’s a group called Junior Achievements that can further help with networking and resources:

The Expert answers:

Wow! Your enthusiasm for getting a job is awesome!

While I don’t know about the prospects of earning money over the internet, I do absolutely know that there are people close to where you live who would pay the right person to do small household jobs that need to be done, but are troublesome for them to do. An able-bodied young person who is reliable, a good listener and focused on customer service could make good money and learn a lot.

A young man in my family started his successful career doing odd jobs and household tasks for elderly widows and widowers that knew him from his church and neighborhood. In fact, he used what he earned to put himself through school and is an attorney now…

There are many older people who still maintain their own homes and need help with tasks like doing the laundry, vacuuming, moving furniture, dusting, taking recycling, doing yard work, getting to the grocery store or pharmacy, cleaning windows and even changing light bulbs. If you play the piano or another musical instrument, you could offer to do this in the homes of older people (who have pianos for example) at family gatherings, club meetings or just in their home as a “cheerful pickup”.

If you did these kinds of services, you could set your own hours and have flexibility to do other things that you might wish to do this summer.

Some families of your older neighbors and friends who are worried about their family-members’ safety may be willing to pay for you to be a daytime or night time companion to one of their family members. This option would probably tie you down more and you would feel more personal responsibility for the person’s ongoing well-being. It’s something for you to think about.

If you decide to try one or more of these ideas, you will likely find that helping and getting to know your older neighbors and friends is a great opportunity–and you will likely be amazed at the stories you will listen to and what you will learn! You will be successful if you are friendly, reliable, honest, are a good listener, work diligently, keep your word and keep the private affairs of your customers to yourself. (Don’t gossip!)

I have observed that most older people just love to dote on friendly young people who help and befriend them–whether the young person is related to them or not!

To get started, talk to your parents about your plans, decide what services you want to do and what you will charge for the services you will provide. Then, start telling people you know about your services– talk to people in your church or neighborhood and maybe make fliers with your name and phone number to put at church or in another neighborhood location.

By the way, if you enjoy doing this type of service, you could contine doing this work on a limited basis during the school year for your “best customers.”

Hope this helps! Whatever you decide to do, I hope that you have fun and will reach your financial goals!

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They are lacking the ability to fact check their own talking points.
Http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/apr/15/joe-scarborough/heres-scoop-obama-has-worked-ice-cream-business-am/

Below, compiled from and cross-checked among a host of sources, is what we believe to be the most thorough account of the president’s work history.

1975 or 1976 — ice cream scooper, Baskin-Robbins — Honolulu — Obama claims to have lost his taste for ice cream during this, his first job.

Deli counter clerk, — Honolulu — Obama had a summer job at a deli counter in Hawaii, making sandwiches.

1980 — gift shop sales clerk — Honolulu — Obama worked at a gift shop in Hawaii selling island souvenirs the summer after his freshman year at Occidental College in California.

1981-1983 — construction worker, business name unknown — New York — Obama cleared a construction site for a summer on Manhattan’s Upper West Side while attending Columbia University, the Associated Press reported. Obama referred to this job in Dreams From My Father .

1981-1983 — New York — During his years at Columbia University, Obama worked one summer for a private company processing health records of either police or firefighters, his spokesman said during the presidential campaign.

1981-1983 — telemarketer, company unknown — New York — During one school year at Columbia, Obama was a telemarketer in midtown Manhattan selling New York Times subscriptions over the phone, his spokesman said during the presidential campaign.

1983-84 — research assistant, Business International Corporation — New York — At this firm that helped American companies do business abroad, Obama was a researcher and writer for a reference service called Financing Foreign Operations; among his duties was writing a newsletter called Business International Money Report.

1985 — project coordinator, New York Public Interest Research Group — New York — Obama mobilized student volunteers at City College in Harlem for NYPIRG, a nonprofit organization that promotes consumer, environmental and government reform. He promoted activism around issues such as mass transit, higher education, tuition, financial aid and recycling.

1985-1988 — community organizer, Developing Communities Project — Chicago — Obama advocated for asbestos removal, job training and public-works services at this community organization on Chicago’s South Side.

1988 — research assistant, Lawrence Tribe — student assistant to this Harvard Law School professor and renowned constitutional scholar.

1989 — summer associate, Hopkins & Sutter — Obama held this job the summer between his first and second years of law school.

1990 — summer associate, Sidley & Austin — After his second year of law school Obama was a summer associate for one of the world’s oldest and largest law firms, where he met Michelle Robinson, his future wife.

1990-1991 — president, Harvard Law Review — Obama was the first African-American to hold this prestigious position.

1991-1992 — executive director, Project Vote — Ran a campaign that registered nearly 150,000 black voters for the 1992 elections.

1993-2004 — associate and partner (starting 1996), Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland — Chicago — defended clients ranging from landlords to a securities trader, and handled employment-discrimination and voting-rights cases at this Chicago law firm.

1993-2004 — part-time lecturer, University of Chicago Law School — Chicago — lectured on constitutional law.

1995 — author, Times Books — published memoir, Dreams From My Father.

1997-2004 — state senator, Illinois — senator from Illinois’ 13th District on Chicago’s South Side.

2005-2008 — U.S. Senator — represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate.

2006 — Author, Random House — published The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream.

2009 — President, United States — Washington — In his current position, Obama is the head of state of the most powerful country in the world. He runs the executive branch and serves as commander in chief of the armed forces.

There you have it. Obama earned paychecks from 11 for-profit businesses, compared to just six nonprofit or government employers.

The Expert answers:

1 in 3 jobs on merseyside are public sector jobs – so this includes:

NHS
Education
Council workers
Government departments based in Merseyside
Emergency Services

The biggest individual employers I think are:
Unilever
Amec
Pilkington
BNFL
Littlewoods
United Utilities
Matalan
Stanley Leisure
Princes Ltd
Phoenix Healthcare Distribution
European Metal Recycling
Ineos Chlor
Magnox
De Vere
Volox
Mersey Docks & Harbour Co
Bridgewater Paper

in fact here’s a list
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/business/top100/tm_headline=the-top-100-list%26method=full%26objectid=13401483%26siteid=50061-name_page.html

After public sector I think the service industry in general is the biggest sector – hotels retail bars etc and then tourist industry and the arts.

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The benefits of recycling ; it is better to recycle even if you recycle BADLY

Well-run recycling programs cost less to operate than waste collection, landfilling, and incineration.

The more people recycle, the cheaper it gets.

Two years after calling recycling a $40 million drain on the city, New York City leaders realized that a redesigned, efficient recycling system could actually save the city $20 million and they have now signed a 20-year recycling contract.
Recycling helps families save money, especially in communities with pay-as-you-throw programs.

Well-designed programs save money. Communities have many options available to make their programs more cost-effective, including maximizing their recycling rates, implementing pay-as-you-throw programs, and including incentives in waste management contracts that encourage disposal companies to recycle more and dispose of less.

Recycling creates 1.1 million U.S. Jobs, $236 billion in gross annual sales and $37 billion in annual payrolls.

Public sector investment in local recycling programs pays great dividends by creating private sector jobs. For every job collecting recyclables, there are 26 jobs in processing the materials and manufacturing them into new products.

Recycling creates four jobs for every one job created in the waste management and disposal industries.

Thousands of U.S. Companies have saved millions of dollars through their voluntary recycling programs. They wouldn’t recycle if it didn’t make economic sense.

Environmental Recycling Benefits and Facts
information supplied by: National Recycling Coalition
Recycling and composting diverted nearly 70 million tons of material away from landfills and incinerators in 2000, up from 34 million tons in 1990-doubling in just 10 years.

Every ton of paper that is recycled saves 17 trees.

The energy we save when we recycle one glass bottle is enough to light a light bulb for four hours.

Recycling benefits the air and water by creating a net reduction in ten major categories of air pollutants and eight major categories of water pollutants.

In the U.S., processing minerals contributes almost half of all reported toxic emissions from industry, sending 1.5 million tons of pollution into the air and water each year. Recycling can significantly reduce these emissions.

It is important to reduce our reliance on foreign oil. Recycling helps us do that by saving energy.

Manufacturing with recycled materials, with very few exceptions, saves energy and water and produces less air and water pollution than manufacturing with virgin materials.

It takes 95% less energy to recycle aluminum than it does to make it from raw materials. Making recycled steel saves 60%, recycled newspaper 40%, recycled plastics 70%, and recycled glass 40%. These savings far outweigh the energy created as by-products of incineration and landfilling.

In 2000, recycling resulted in an annual energy savings equal to the amount of energy used in 6 million homes (over 660 trillion BTUs). In 2005, recycling is conservatively projected to save the amount of energy used in 9 million homes (900 trillion BTUs).

A national recycling rate of 30% reduces greenhouse gas emissions as much as removing nearly 25 million cars from the road.

Recycling conserves natural resources, such as timber, water, and minerals.

Every bit of recycling makes a difference. For example, one year of recycling on just one college campus, Stanford University, saved the equivalent of 33,913 trees and the need for 636 tons of iron ore, coal, and limestone.
Recycled paper supplies more than 37% of the raw materials used to make new paper products in the U.S. Without recycling, this material would come from trees. Every ton of newsprint or mixed paper recycled is the equivalent of 12 trees. Every ton of office paper recycled is the equivalent of 24 trees.

When one ton of steel is recycled, 2,500 pounds of iron ore, 1,400 pounds of coal and 120 pounds of limestone are conserved.

The Expert answers:

There are recycling centers that take things like electronics, or things other than “trash”. Or even any kind of recycling center – depending on what you like to do, you may find a fit within this kind of organization. Admininstrative? Marketing? I’m sure there are plenty of organizations that would value your volunteer time as well – maybe as a speaker?

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Locate an area of suggestion for recycables. You may have to offer to dispose of all that paper, but ask your most senior exectutive if you can set up a ‘voluntary recycling area’. Print out a bunch of invitations (creativity a must) and personally hand them out to each employee inviting them to use the recycling process. An occational ‘Thank You’ might get those who think they are exempt to feel a bit guilty and join in. You might even find a few partners to help you in the process. Ultimatley the boss will see that it is important to the employees and he might actually DO something about it, himself!
(Paper Reduction Act.. What a joke!)

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I live in Alberta, Canada and work for the Recycling Council of Alberta. I coordinate a program (Recycling Ambassador Program) that sends summer students all around the province educating the public about recycling at public events. It’s awesome!!!! Why don’t you see if there is a recycling organization where you live? The Recycling Council is non political, not for profit charity that works closely with the Alberta government.

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There is a cost to the extra work involved in collecting, sorting and shipping the recycled materials. Recycling does require a separate and parallel collection network that otherwise wouldn’t exist. This creates jobs (that increase payroll). However, there is some savings in the recycled materials as there is less processing to reuse existing materials instead of beginning from raw materials.

Timothy D.
West Melbourne, FL

The Expert answers:

This is a secret the Recyclers don’t want you to know because they are making money out of doing so much of it but….

Recycling is not a cure all for the environment. We use massive amounts of water and power during the recycling processes. Many of the processes also involve detergents and other chemicals which are bad for the environment. Water runoff from recycling plants can have catastrophic effects on lake and river systems.

Also we continue to consume plastic bottles and steel/aluminium cans at a much faster rate than we can recycle them.

The real solution is to RE-USE things whenver possibe. For example instead of throwing out your newspaper use them to line pet cages or in the compost. Buy dry goods from bulk stores where they are cheaper and you can refill the same container week after week.

Avoid buying things which have excessive amounts of packaging, or which have brightly coloured labels, plasticised labels or embossing. These are much more difficult to recycle and also the processes and materials which go into making them in the first place are much worse for the planet than plain unbleached paper products.

So try starting with your shopping list to reduce the amount of waste you produce and you will find that the job of recycling at home will become much easier.

The Expert answers:

Recycling costs more? And you got your figures from where? Pulled them out of your butt?
Loggers plant trees? Yes, they plant no more than two tiny seedlings for each giant that they cut down. Are you claiming that we have three times the tree biomass than we had 40 years ago? Another figure pulled out of your butt?
You are right, though, that aluminum is the most lucretive material to recycle. That doesn’t mean that it doesn’t pay to recycle HDPE into garbage cans, flower pots, and motor oil jugs. It also pays to make jacket insulation from old PETE bottles. The alternative is to use petroleum. Of course, if you own stock in the oil companies, you would want to stop people from doing this.
Back in the old days, when people read books and newspapers, we appreciated the recycling of paper, cardboard, and corrugated board into newsprint. Bookboard, and the like. Not to mention the insulation in your attic.
I’m glad you like landfills so much. I suspect that you don’t live anywhere near one. They wreck the ambiance of an area when they are active and have limited value once they are full. Their stability leaves a bit to be desired. You probably have room in Canada but we are running out of landfill space in the USA. Should we ship you all our garbage? Think of all the nice parks and golf courses you could have.

The Expert answers:

Absolutely, cardboard can be recycled as long as it doesn’t have food all over it. If you look at plastic food and beverage containers they will usually have a little recycling symbol with a number in the middle that tells you what recycling category they go in (if they are recyclable). Glass bottles and cans are also recyclable, of course. If your city has a recycling depot of some kind or a company that picks up recycling, I am sure they have a list of exactly what they take.

Space saving tips for recycling: If you are short of space and need to store recyclables for a while, crush drink cans by stomping on them or using a can crusher to compact them. For plastic bottles, you can take off the cap, flatten them, and then if you still have the cap, put it back on to keep the air from going back in and puffing them up again. Flatten all the boxes as you finish with them.

The Expert answers:

Recycling turns materials that would otherwise become waste into valuable resources. Collecting used bottles, cans, and newspapers and taking them to the curb or to a collection facility is just the first in a series of steps that generates a host of financial, environmental, and social returns. Some of these benefits accrue locally as well as globally.

Benefits of Recycling
Recycling protects and expands U.S. Manufacturing jobs and increases U.S. Competitiveness.
Recycling reduces the need for landfilling and incineration.
Recycling prevents pollution caused by the manufacturing of products from virgin materials.
Recycling saves energy.
Recycling decreases emissions of greenhouse gases that contribute to global climate change.
Recycling conserves natural resources such as timber, water, and minerals.
Recycling helps sustain the environment for future generations.
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Steps to Recycling a Product
Recycling includes collecting recyclable materials that would otherwise be considered waste, sorting and processing recyclables into raw materials such as fibers, manufacturing raw materials into new products, and purchasing recycled products.

Collecting and processing secondary materials, manufacturing recycled-content products, and then buying recycled products creates a circle or loop that ensures the overall success and value of recycling.

Step 1. Collection and Processing
Collecting recyclables varies from community to community, but there are four primary methods: curbside, drop-off centers, buy-back centers, and deposit/refund programs.

Regardless of the method used to collect the recyclables, the next leg of their journey is usually the same. Recyclables are sent to a materials recovery facility to be sorted and prepared into marketable commodities for manufacturing. Recyclables are bought and sold just like any other commodity, and prices for the materials change and fluctuate with the market.

Step 2. Manufacturing
Once cleaned and separated, the recyclables are ready to undergo the second part of the recycling loop. More and more of today’s products are being manufactured with total or partial recycled content. Common household items that contain recycled materials include newspapers and paper towels; aluminum, plastic, and glass soft drink containers; steel cans; and plastic laundry detergent bottles. Recycled materials also are used in innovative applications such as recovered glass in roadway asphalt (glassphalt) or recovered plastic in carpeting, park benches, and pedestrian bridges.

Step 3. Purchasing Recycled Products
Purchasing recycled products completes the recycling loop. By “buying recycled,” governments, as well as businesses and individual consumers, each play an important role in making the recycling process a success. As consumers demand more environmentally sound products, manufacturers will continue to meet that demand by producing high-quality recycled products. Learn more about recycling terminology and to find tips on identifying recycled products.

The Expert answers:

We do all the recycling, council gets a lot of money from it, we go along to the supermarket buy our re cycled packaged goods at the same expensive price??? Guess who gets done YET again!! And there are rumours the more you recycle the higher your C-tax will be!!!

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If a student does not know and cannot discuss very basic concepts then that student will never be able to get to higher level critical thinking.
For example: We could just rely on digital text readers instead of memorizing the alphabet and learning how to read. Couldn’t we?

We could just carry dictionaries around with us all the time instead of memorizing more complex words. Couldn’t we?

The students I teach have to memorize latin root words and prefixes. Seems dull and stupid right? Our students do much better on SAT’s as well as improve their abilities to figure out the spelling and meanings of words they are not familiar with.

The fact is, relying on technology to get through life is not always efficient or practical. You need to actually know what your talking about. I can’t whip out my laptop at job interview to look something up. When having a conversation with colleagues i want to be able to analyze ideas with my own knowledge, not take out my Iphone to look it up.

Also, just imagine if everyone decided they weren’t actually going to learn anything because they could just look it up. Kids wouldn’t know history, they wouldn’t know how to do calculations on their own, and so on.
There is a lot of debate over how to effectively education children. I ‘m a teacher, and I believe, just based on my experience actually working with students, is that you cannot assume every student has basic knowledge. You have to start at the beginning. While testing isn’t the end all in learning a concept, there does have to be some way to assess a student’s knowledge, otherwise we as teachers cannot gauge whether or not the student is learning. That is why there has been a shift to experiential, and project based learning instead of tests, yet we still have to assess whether the concepts are being absorbed. It is hard to explain to a student that learning is not about grades and exams, but when a student has a clear understanding o the expectations they do much much better academically. Call it programming if you like, but if there is not accountability then learning suffers.

I think a lot of the problems in our society come from people not having a comprehensive view of a subject. If you were never taught a subject from its most basic level and then built upon that basic knowledge, you have a one sided view.

For example: I can throw trash on the ground. I know that it is wrong, and I can look up why it is wrong on the internet. But if I was taught from a young age about recycling, environmental issues, materials science, how trash decomposes, ecosystems, and the long term effects of trash on communities, from a basic level, I probably wouldn’t have thrown that trash on the ground in the first place.
When you learn the basics, memorize them, build your knowledge on them, you provide yourself with context for the world you exist in. Sometimes context is the starting point to change. Change leads to evolution.

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I have news along the line of the first responder.

Volunteer. People who help other people without expectation of reward or recognition feel better about themselves.

Pitch in at a recycling center, show up at an animal shelter and pick up a shovel, help out at a soup kitchen, find the agency that will allow you to read to a blind person, join the group that will help you treat an adult to read. Be a candy striper at a hospital. Find your skills and interest set and give it up for two hours a week. Here’s a hint: people hire people to solve problems, not to create them.

Your parents will trust you more, your friends will raise their opinion of your previously selfish, whining….. You will have something to write on your first job application, the college admissions office will overlook the fact that you took you two years in high school to get your head on straight. You will be on the way to finding your meaning and purpose in life, and you will feel better about yourself.

You can ignore me if you want to, but the time will come when you accept that I was speaking the truth. I just hope that you haven’t run your Ferrari into the wall by then.

You have a roof over your head, you have more than enough to eat, you have outstanding clothing, your parents give a damn about you, you have the best school that is available in your socioeconomic strata, you have health care, That put you at about the 99.8 percentile of teenage girls in the world and you are asking for a helicopter. Would being homeless be an improvement?

Ordinarily I would make a joke and say, “Run away with me.” I won’t even do that for you.

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Http://ezinearticles.com/?What-is-Army-Basic-Training-Really-Like?&id=3193851

tristan.lyne@yahoo.com If you have any questions, there is so much to explain it is too much to put into one or two paragraphs.

I cannot really remember my basic training experience all I remember is being bored a lot. I am a guy so the facts may be different for the ladies. Start running if you have not already, we never ran more than 2-4 miles but we ran them fast and I never felt sorry for the females that fell out of company runs. All of the females and more than a few males that recycled or washed out were from injury. Half of the time these were avoidable by being more in shape than they were. Look up the Army PFT test standards, in training everyone gets graded as an 18 year old. If you can pass the PT test before you go there then you should not have any problems. Mainly females had problems with keeping up with the guys; this is not a knock on women. Men have a longer stride and for a female to try and keep up in some cases caused stress fractures in the hips and those will get you recycled. If you can get a backpack and do some walking quickly, make sure there is at least 20-30 pounds in there to get you ready for that part. And depending on where you are going and what time of year the weather also plays a huge factor in all of it. The only thing worse than training is being recycled or a holdover, those are the ones that got hurt and could not train. You watch everyone else train and then you get to start over with the next training class.
Living arrangement vary from base to base but plan on sleeping with no less than 12 no more than a 100 females in a bay and some of the bays are huge so they will pack you all in there as tight as possible. Showers are in an open bay, no private showers sorry. Toilets are private, and if you are in a coed training there are dressing rooms that you have to use. My company had an incident with a fight in a shower and I was taken down to the female shower room to see all of the blood and explain to an officer why I did not report the problem between the two females. The Army is like that; I was nowhere near the incident and had to explain the problem since I was the platoon guide. Oh, avoid that job no matter what, it does not get you anything but less sleep and more headaches. I was PG for the entire cycle and I never volunteered again for that role either in AIT or Airborne. You will be given everything you need, but you can bring stuff like soap you like and underwear/socks as long as it is completely white (no logos) you should be okay. The Army is not the Marines those guys show up with nothing and if they do have anything it is thrown away. The Army is not as Spartan, but it is still tough. Oh stamps and cards are cool but in the beginning you will have time for nothing especially writing. If you get two phones calls in a cycle consider yourself lucky, we got one and they were for 3 minutes. Make sure your calling cards can be used from pay phones and that they work, you get three minutes from the time you touch the phone until they say stop. Become a church member, it is only an hour and a half but the DS cannot get to you there and it is a great break during the week.
If you look at everything as a challenge or fun then your time at basic should be a blast. Yes, you are away from your loved ones, yes, you are exhausted and not doing anything really fun. Yes, you have not used makeup or hair products in weeks (you will at least have hair). By the way go to your natural color or they will make you there at in-processing, and it will not be fun. There are a ton of lifestyle changes that if you make them before you go they will not be a shock. But enjoying those now is better than not enjoying them at all. The food is cafeteria food, do not expect miracles, MRE’s suck do not eat the charms they will tear your insides up, the cheese will too. Stay away from desserts if you need to lose weight, oh another point. The ones that need to gain muscles will gain muscle; the ones that need to lose weight will lose weight. But if you are stuffing fatty cakes in your mouth all 63 days you will not lose as much as you could. The gas chamber sucks, you will not die though, getting gassed always sucks so get your mask on quickly.

There are always trouble makers in every cycle, just do not be one of them. We had a DS get assaulted by a kid who thought he was being disrespected. The kid went to jail with a broken arm, and then he got kicked out of the Army. Make sure you lock everything that you own even if you are going to the bathroom, there are thieves in the best bunch and this is not a group of saints. Just do exactly what you are told and everything else will become second nature. Remember one thing, they will not kill you in basic, most things are 100% safe and have been done by millions of others before you. Email me I had an Army girlfriend in AIT that had a lot of insight and shared with me and I can tell you all that I know. I just do not want to write a novel trying to get to them all and I will remember these things tonight around 2 a.m. And will forget them by morning.

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I came across this on an internet forum where people were revealing the ‘nasty unknowns’ of jobs they have had in the past.

“Pet shops only sell 2/3 of their puppies before they get too old, become less desireable and therefore less profitable. So, every quarter when The Puppy Truck arrives with new replacement pups, the older ones are loaded on the truck and returned to the breeders to be “recycled” into feed for something else. If it was widely known that all pet shops who sell puppies participated in this you can imagine the results. Therefore The Puppy Truck is designed to hide what it is. It’s a clean white unmarked semi on the outside but stainless steel wall to wall and floor to ceiling inside with small cages along the walls. No lights inside. The sound of three dozen barking, yowling, crying 8 week old pups in that metal box is beyond description. The drivers arrive at the stores after hours to do the swap. They have keys. No employees are -ever- told when they will come due to the fact they love animals and would likely quit en masse if they knew what was taking place. In fact as a rule they are not told about any of this. They order new pups from a breeders FAX sheet and the pups come and go without warning. Only the owner/manager knows and they don’t talk. “

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Japan has been around for centuries so I don’t think they’re going anywhere. Biggest problems?

-next to zero population growth. To put it bluntly Japan needs to start makin babies, and lots of ’em. The population is aging like almost no other country in the world.

-next to zero economic growth. It’s been this way since about 1989. Not good.

-The Japanese economic system is byzantine, inefficient, and out of touch. They build museums that nobody visits. Roads are constantly under repair, even if they don’t really need to be repaired. Some poor guy is always out there holding a “Slow” sign, all so Japan can say they have low unemployment.

-Most Japanese universities are a complete joke. The Japanese will openly admit this. Their colleges are aging, decrepit, out of date, and horribly underfunded. Most serious Japanese academic researchers go overseas to do their research. Very, very little serious academic research gets done at Japanese colleges. The “best” university in Japan, Tokyo University (Tokyo Daigaku, or Todai) is hard to get into, but once you’re admitted you can literally sleep through classes, act like a drunken frat boy, and be guaranteed a top job with the government or a big corporation when you graduate.

-Japan is slowly but surely destroying their natural environment. They dam rivers, destroy beaches, put annoyingly loud Toshiba speakers in a Zen garden. Read “Dogs and Demons” by Alex Kerr. He’s lived in Japan for about 25 years. It’s a real eye opener. Mr. Kerr wrote this book because he loves Japan and wants to see it succeed, not because he’s a Japan hater.

I pointed this out at a dinner one time where a former Japanese history professor of mine was in attendance, and he totally shut me down. I got annoyed but I kept quiet. It doesn’t change the fact that these things are real, and the Japanese have to deal with them.

-Tokyo is one of the 2 biggest cities in the world and is overdue for a catastrophic earthquake. The government talks about moving the capital but nothing gets done. I shudder to think of the absolute carnage that would happen when this thing hits. And it will hit. It’s just a matter of time.

-The Japanese are very xenophobic, by and large. Not all Japanese, but most Japanese.

-The Japanese treat ethnic Koreans like dirt and it is a travesty! 3rd or 4th generation Koreans who speak Japanese and have Japanese names are discriminated against in every way shape and form.

-The Japanese by and large do not recycle. They will throw away near new TVs and microwaves in the middle of a pristine forest. It is still legal to burn your trash in Japan. Carcinogens, anyone?

-Japan gives big sums of money to little tiny island nations in the Pacific to vote “yes” at the United Nations so Japan can hunt whales for “scientific research.” B.S. The Japanese like to eat whale meat, even though most whale species are highly endangered. This really bothers me. (Iceland and Norway do this, too.)

-The indigenous Japanese (the Ainu) have been reduced to little more than tourist attractions. Literally. Their proud culture has been ransacked, violated, and all but destroyed.

I lived in Japan. I love Japan. I respect Japan. I want to see Japan thrive and succeed; for their own sake, and having them as a stable ally in that region is good for Western/American interests as a check against North Korea. But still, these are the big issues and not talking about them won’t solve them.

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Economic Recycling Benefits and Facts
information supplied by: National Recycling Coalition
Well-run recycling programs cost less to operate than waste collection, landfilling, and incineration.

The more people recycle, the cheaper it gets.
Two years after calling recycling a $40 million drain on the city, New York City leaders realized that a redesigned, efficient recycling system could actually save the city $20 million and they have now signed a 20-year recycling contract.
Recycling helps families save money, especially in communities with pay-as-you-throw programs.
Well-designed programs save money. Communities have many options available to make their programs more cost-effective, including maximizing their recycling rates, implementing pay-as-you-throw programs, and including incentives in waste management contracts that encourage disposal companies to recycle more and dispose of less.
Recycling creates 1.1 million U.S. Jobs, $236 billion in gross annual sales and $37 billion in annual payrolls.
Public sector investment in local recycling programs pays great dividends by creating private sector jobs. For every job collecting recyclables, there are 26 jobs in processing the materials and manufacturing them into new products.
Recycling creates four jobs for every one job created in the waste management and disposal industries.
Thousands of U.S. Companies have saved millions of dollars through their voluntary recycling programs. They wouldn’t recycle if it didn’t make economic sense.

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Costs people money.
When I lived in Michigan it was 10c/can deposit, making soda pop cost 10c more per can (so if a 12 pack was $3, it was really $4.20 with deposit!)
I guess so many people don’t recycle so they don’t get that money back. (I always did – in fact we would go to Toledo, since OH DIDN’T recycle and buy soda, bring the cans back to MI and get $$ for them!)

Now that I live in AZ, they don’t recycle cans for $$ here… But they do have recycling in general, and many people just throw their cans in the trash — they don’t even put them in the recycle bins!

So maybe it’s just the people are lazy.
I at least put my glass and cans in the recycle bin.

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Enzymes can break down many substrate molecules. In fact, some enzymes can act on millions of substrate molecules per minute! This allows cells to have very efficient metabolism, producing relatively few proteins for the amount of substrates they act on.

However, they are eventually broken down any recycled. There are enzymes called “proteases,” which, as the name suggests, have the job of breaking down other proteins. So a given enzyme, like a lactase, is broken down and recycled pretty regularly; perhaps every few minutes or so, depending on the specific enzyme and how fast it is broken down by the cell. But in that few minutes of life, the lactase can act on thousands or millions of substrate molecules. So it’s not a single-use enzyme.

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We cannot dispose of our trash cans, because not everything we discard is recyclable.

Chris H. Is partly correct in that 80% of “things” put in UNATTENDED recycling bins end up in landfills. Why? Because many people don’t know, or don’t care, or don’t want to bother to educate themselves, on what is recyclable. Or they are spiteful and throw garbage in recycling bins.

My husband and I run our city’s Recycling Center, and I have found in unattended paper-recycling bins: maggoty bags of garbage; dirty diapers; broken glass; oilfield chemicals; used tampons; half-eaten food; fireworks; drug paraphernalia; drugs; beer bottles full of urine; shoes; clothing; and, most memorable, a pretty-good quantity of vomit.

We also have “attended” recycling bins. This means a volunteer remains by the bins to keep people from throwing garbage into them. Almost 100% of what goes into those bins ends up being recycled; I have spoken to the company that picks up our recycling and they say we do a very good job.

You are describing “curbside recycling”. Bins are left at curbside and a company picks up the recyclables. This company sorts and packages the recyclables, usually selling it to a third company that processes it (i.e., makes glass cull, paper pulp, or plastic shreds) and sells it to yet another company that uses it to make products. Fewer or more companies may be involved, depending on how “advanced” the recycling is in that area.

I have an excellent essay/paper that I helped my daughter write on the benefits of recycling. This essay includes many resources, statistics, and facts. If you would like to read this paper and use some of our resources, please contact me.

Good luck with your scholarship!

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The usual arguments for OOP vs. Procedural apply. That is, procedural processing tends to offer few opportunities for code-recycling; the programs are frequently monolithic, top-down instruction-sets that are harder to maintain and evolve over time. Objects tend to provide small, manageable blocks of code that address small sets of specific concerns that can be reused. I prefer OOP in general, since I always have an eye to code reuse. However, size and complexity come into play, when making the decision as to which to apply for a particular project. When building an HTML page, the PHP most often looks very procedural in its most general structure, since the composition of a web-page has a very top-down order, i.e., head, head-child-elements, body, body-child-elements, etc. A simple, one-off page may be unworthy the heavier-weight engineering principles of OOP – where the line is drawn is a fuzzy issue. I note that the PHP-based CMS, Concrete5, that my shop employs widely on behalf of clients is a purely OOP implementation…very appropriately so, given the complexity of the app. There’s a good “contrast and compare” article at:

http://devzone.zend.com/article/1236

That said, there is another approach you didn’t consider explicitly in the statement of your question, namely Functional Programming (FP). FP provides the same potential for code reuse as OOP. It allows you to develop fairly small procedural-style blocks that rely on functions to perform the actual processing. If you really drink the FP kool-aid, you can make your top-level, “procedural” blocks be functions as well. So, even when I elect a more procedural model, I implement more of the processing in functions in order to offer recyclability…most often, I simply reuse existing functions, plugging them into top-level, director/controller procedural code. My shop mostly develops new apps using the J(2)EE Design Patterns (in PHP) for the web aspects and the GoF Design Patterns for the base operations. All of these are implemented in a mix of procedural and functional approaches. We write some pretty darned big apps this way, and still have a huge amount savings from recycled code; in fact, our entire project template is static and completely reusable. Individual “procedure” can vary at the level of the component-include or the functions employed. Joel has an amusing OOP vs. FP article at:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/08/01.html

I see potential and competing values in each model, depending on the nature of the individual project and the need and desire to avoid reinventing the wheel. As with most modern languages, the programming paradigm is up to the developer; each language supports all programming models, even when there may be a generally-preferred approach. Don’t let anyone else’s preferences lock you into a single choice of practices. Also, don’t neglect learning new models just ‘cuz you already know one…learn and grow, so that you have more options and CAN pick the right tool for the job.

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500 senko worms per summer is really A HUGE number even if you fish every single day all summer. Are Yamamoto Senkos really that special? Are they really that irreplaceable? Must you spend that much on Yamamoto products? Have you tried other name brand senko variants out there? I’m pretty sure you already knew Yamamoto Senkos aren’t that cheap already. But are they really worth that price tag?

I have tried almost all name brand senko variants available to me and I’ve concluded that there are suitable substitutes for Yamamoto Senkos. Yum Dingers really performed well for me and they are every bit comparable to Yamamotos. In fact, Yum Dingers will outperform Yamamotos during the first several casts because of the scent. Yum Dingers cost a lot less than Yamamotos as well.

Pouring your own plastic is also an option. You can recycle your chewed up lures. You can make plaster molds and create carbon copies of your favorite lure. You can add scent and oil to your finished lure. You can control the softness of your home made lures. Most importantly, fish can’t tell a difference and you’ll save tons of money. FYI, senkos could be duplicated very easily and the equipments necessary to create 500 of your own senkos will cost less than 500 Yamamoto Senkos. Please keep in mind that I’m referring to initial investments plus first 500 home made lures only. Additional lures will cost considerably less. Catching fish on lures “you made” is a lot more satisfying as well.

When I first started using senkos, one lure will last me around 2-3 fish at the most. It doesn’t matter if I use texas rig or wacky rig or drop shot, my senkos won’t last very long. Now, one senko worm could get me around 8-10 bass on the average. If you wacky worm a lot, then I highly recommend those wacky o-rings. Those tiny pieces of rubber ring will really extend your lure’s useful life.
Http://www.basspro.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product_10151_-1_10001_95043?cmCat=CROSSSELL_PRODUCT&cmid=PP_P0_2
You can find those rings on eBay at low price as well. Other than the price, both me and the fish couldn’t tell a difference.

If you texas rig a lot, then I’d suggest that you get some worm glues such as this one: http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp;jsessionid=NQA0DGOGNFBQRLAQBBJCCOFMCAEFGIWE?id=0057462123586a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntt=worm&Ntk=Products&sort=all&Go.y=0&_D%3AhasJS=+&N=0&_D%3Asort=+&Nty=1&hasJS=true&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form1&Go.x=0&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_requestid=235405 The worm glue do come with a little catch though. Please spend a few minutes going through user review on that product. Personally, I don’t use worm glue anymore. I found I could use a lighter to do some emergency patch up jobs on the water. You only need to melt plastic around chewed up portions of the lure. Once the molten plastic cooled, chewed up portions will be covered by molten plastics and you’ll be able to squeeze a little bit more life out of that lure. The patched up lure won’t look perfect and you can’t restore the lure back to “like new” condition but the result will be acceptable to fish. I found out about the lighter trick in the middle of a wide open bite. I was down to my last senko and I simply refuse to leave. That lighter saved the day. LOL

I found smaller bass in the water tear up senkos more than bigger ones. If the fish is not big enough to inhale the lure whole, there’s a possibility that the fish will hold on to the tail portion of the worm and miss the hook completely. When this happens, the lure’s useful life will shorten considerably provided that lure didn’t expire on the spot. To solve the problem, I either use smaller size lures or I tear/bite off 1/2 to 1 inch off the tail. Reducing the size of the lure a little doesn’t mean you won’t be able to catch bigger fish. You’ll just have less missed fish and you’ll catch a little more smaller fish that’s all.

I also found if you allow the fish to have the lure a couple split seconds longer, the chances of “tail bite” will reduce. This is a little tricky though. If you let the fish have the lure for too long before you set the hook, the fish could either swallow the lure or drop the lure. Only experience could tell you how long you should allow the fish to have the lure.

Hope this helps.

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What to Do

Reduce stress. Stress makes allergies and asthma worse. Right about now you’re saying to yourself, “Stress? What the heck kind of stress does a cat have?” That’s a fair question. They certainly don’t have to worry about paying bills or where their next meal is coming from. (Those are your stresses, actually.) They don’t have job pressures or deadlines to meet. Heck, they don’t even have to think about what they’re going to wear every day.

Cats have stress that we like to call “domestication stress” or “family stress.” You see, cats weren’t originally designed and built to live among humans. They’ve done a superb job of adapting, but no matter how independent and primal your cat seems, she’s still having to deal with the human world and human civilization every single day. And that gets tough. Giving her plenty of options to do cat things such as run, climb, stalk (preferably another cat), bat things around, hide, and nap in secluded spots helps her cope.

If the stress level goes up in your life or in your household, it goes up in your cat’s life, too. She can’t understand why things are getting tense — she just knows people are moving and sounding anxious. Remember, “stress” doesn’t just mean negative things; positive events carry stress, too. In fact, probably the worst kind of stress for a cat is change.

A new baby, for instance, is not only a time for great joy but also for great change — and the stresses that go with that. For you, those stresses mean less sleep (or none at all), a change in lifestyle, and an extra mouth to feed. For your cat, it means some strange new animal, who makes odd noises, smells funny, and doesn’t do much, suddenly takes all the human attention away from her!

Clear the air. Secondhand smoke isn’t the only thing that can make asthma worse. Even things that we think make our home more pleasant can be a no-no for a cat with bronchitis or asthma. Perfumes, room fresheners, deodorizers, and even scented litters or litter additives can trigger allergy and asthma attacks.

Likewise, the fumes from paints, cleaners, varnishes, and new carpeting are actually chemical irritants that create problems for the asthmatic cat. Use natural objects, such as flowers, eucalyptus sprigs, and fresh floral potpourri, to provide a fresh scent to a room instead of sprays or solids that contain chemicals. Use strong-smelling paints, stains, cleaners, and solvents in well-ventilated rooms, and keep the cat out until the smell goes away. And put out those smokes.

It’s a good idea to use plain, natural, unscented litter and to stay away from deodorizers you add to the litter. Also the dust from the litter itself irritates the lungs and can cause attacks in asthmatic cats. Some natural litters — like the ones made of recycled paper — have virtually no dust at all. To cut down on dust from clay litters, pour them slowly, keeping the opening of the bag just a few inches from the litter box.

Wetter is better. Dry air dries out the lining of your cat’s air passages, encouraging coughing and making your cat more vulnerable to infection and allergic reactions. Be sure to have a good humidifier going, especially in winter, during heating season, and in arid areas of the country. There’s an added bonus to this remedy: You will also be less likely to have as many coughs, stuffy noses, and colds in the air if your home is kept properly moist.

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Get a lawyer or go to the governmental employment bureau and lodge a complaint.

A) They cannot go through your things without your permission or prior notice that bag checks will be conducted. All bag checks must be conducted by security – was it? Also there needs to be a witness and you must be present. Who’s to say this person didn’t plant the bottle?

B) Where in the employee handbook does it say what you can or cannot have in your bag? Where does it ban empty bottles? Would ANY empty bottle get you fired? Maybe you put it in there until you found a recycle container. What else would get you fired? How about a pack of cigarettes? If smoking on the job isn’t permitted, would you get fired if they found a pack? What about a bottle of mouthwash? It has alcohol in it. Would THAT get you fired too?

C) You were not given a sobriety test, so they have absolutely no proof you were drinking in the job or dunk. So they legally cannot accuse you of either of these.

So . . .WHY were you fired? They have no proof you were drinking or drunk on the job, they searched your bag without your consent or you being there and where in the employee handbook does it say you cannot have an empty bottle in your bag?

You were wrongly terminated.

Have a lawyer draft up a demand letter stating this and what you want – money, the person who went through your bag fired or your job back – or a combination of any. You definitely have a case.

Also, if the person who went through your bag wasn’t security and went through your bag on their own accord (decided to do it without being told by management), go to the police and file charges of invasion of property and theft. They took your purse without your permission, regardless of the fact that they later gave it back. That’s theft.

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Taxing the rich so the middle class get poorer because the big company owners will cut jobs and pay by half,you watch,that is a great plan….NOT!!!

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Copy and paste this into your browser.

Http://www.hoovers.com/safety-kleen/–ID__11287–/free-co-factsheet.xhtml

This is a fact sheet from Hoovers on line one of the better business directories you can find.
I hope it helps.

My company uses Safety Kleen for recycling of hazardous and non-hazardous waste. In my opinion they are a good company and even through the refinancing of the company they did not skip a beat on custmer service. I would not be concerned when considering employment there.

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Enzymes can break down many substrate molecules. In fact, some enzymes can act on millions of substrate molecules per minute! This allows cells to have very efficient metabolism, producing relatively few proteins for the amount of substrates they act on.

However, they are eventually broken down any recycled. There are enzymes called “proteases,” which, as the name suggests, have the job of breaking down other proteins. So a given enzyme, like a lactase, is broken down and recycled pretty regularly; perhaps every few minutes or so, depending on the specific enzyme and how fast it is broken down by the cell. But in that few minutes of life, the lactase can act on thousands or millions of substrate molecules. So it’s not a single-use enzyme.

This system is very efficient because it allows a cell to get a lot done with a few enzymes, while at the same time quickly adjusting its metabolism to changing environmental conditions. If lactose becomes unavailable, the cell will stop making lactase within minutes, and existing lactase molecules will be broken down into constituents to make other, more useful proteins. But as long as there is lactose, a single lactase enzyme can break down thousands or millions of lactose molecules. I think this type of cellular regulation is pretty cool.

Hope this helps!

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I have a degree in Environmental Studies and currently work as an Environmental Education Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador. I’m working with the local municipality to increase recycling and better garbage management – i.e. Not burning the trash. I also work in the schools and teach kids about the environment. I’m also learning and speaking Spanish 🙂

During college, I worked for one local and one national environmental non-profit. With the first job, I worked to inform landowners of their rights when they have oil and gas on their land that the federal government has leased. I also informed them, through fact sheets, etc, about what things about oil and gas drilling causes concern, i.e. Road placement, waste management, water contamination.

The second non-profit I worked for was a regional one with national reach. I worked on a biodiesel bus for 4 months traveling the country with 3 others and engaging the public about sustainable biodiesel, local foods, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. We traveled 7 states and worked at 70+ events in 50+ communities. These events ranged from a small ag store in rural South Dakota and farmers markets to a large corn / music festival in Colorado.

I was paid $10 – $11 per hour at the non-profit working to inform people about carbon fuels and was paid about $12,000 for the four month bus tour.

There are a whole host of environmental non-profits out there, but you may want to start by looking at Greenpeace. They have a list of jobs on their website and that’ll give you an idea what type of jobs are in the area. Also, look for and contact local environmental groups. You’ll have to have a degree and likely start as an intern if you’re in college working toward achieving a degree. These groups are interdisciplinary and look for people with a whole host of backgrounds including environmental related degrees, economics, history, public relations, business management, web design, law, etc.

As far as the degree is concerned, there are a bunch of different degrees from a ton of different colleges. I have a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies. I studied science, politics, and cultural views toward the environment. Others are more science based or business based. It depends on what you want.

Good luck! It feels really good working for something you believe will really help “save the planet.”

Also, as an added note, to address Sienna’s comment about the definition of non-profit. It legally means you can’t sell the business for a profit and any profit made during the sell of the entity goes back into the organization.

The Expert answers:

Your conclusion is your opportunity to wrap up your essay in a tidy package and bring it home for your reader. It is a good idea to recapitulate what you said in your Thesis Statement in order to suggest to your reader that you have accomplished what you set out to accomplish. It is also important to judge for yourself that you have, in fact, done so. If you find that your thesis statement now sounds hollow or irrelevant — that you haven’t done what you set out to do — then you need either to revise your argument or to redefine your thesis statement. Don’t worry about that; it happens to writers all the time. They have argued themselves into a position that they might not have thought of when they began their writing. Writing, just as much as reading, is a process of self discovery. Do not, in any case, simply restate your thesis statement in your final paragraph, as that would be redundant. Having read your essay, we should understand this main thought with fresh and deeper understanding, and your conclusion wants to reflect what we have learned.

There are some cautions we want to keep in mind as we fashion our final utterance. First, we don’t want to finish with a sentimental flourish that shows we’re trying to do too much. It’s probably enough that our essay on recycling will slow the growth of the landfill in Hartford’s North Meadows. We don’t need to claim that recycling our soda bottles is going to save the world for our children’s children. (That may be true, in fact, but it’s better to claim too little than too much; otherwise, our readers are going to be left with that feeling of “Who’s he/she kidding?”) The conclusion should contain a definite, positive statement or call to action, but that statement needs to be based on what we have provided in the essay.

Second, the conclusion is no place to bring up new ideas. If a brilliant idea tries to sneak into our final paragraph, we must pluck it out and let it have its own paragraph earlier in the essay. If it doesn’t fit the structure or argument of the essay, we will leave it out altogether and let it have its own essay later on. The last thing we want in our conclusion is an excuse for our readers’ minds wandering off into some new field. Allowing a peer editor or friend to reread our essay before we hand it in is one way to check this impulse before it ruins our good intentions and hard work.

Never apologize for or otherwise undercut the argument you’ve made or leave your readers with the sense that “this is just little ol’ me talking.” Leave your readers with the sense that they’ve been in the company of someone who knows what he or she is doing. Also, if you promised in the introduction that you were going to cover four points and you covered only two (because you couldn’t find enough information or you took too long with the first two or you got tired), don’t try to cram those last two points into your final paragraph. The “rush job” will be all too apparent. Instead, revise your introduction or take the time to do justice to these other points.

Here is a brief list of things that you might accomplish in your concluding paragraph(s).* There are certainly other things that you can do, and you certainly don’t want to do all these things. They’re only suggestions:

include a brief summary of the paper’s main points.
Ask a provocative question.
Use a quotation.
Evoke a vivid image.
Call for some sort of action.
End with a warning.
Universalize (compare to other situations).
Suggest results or consequences.