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Don’t put it in a plastic bag. The recycler will simply throw the whole bag in the trash. The best solution is to take it to a recycler who will put it in with other office paper. The second best solution is to just put it in with your newspaper recycling.

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No. If it has any value it has to be turned into DRMO.
You can however:
Hold a raffle.
Do a carwash or bakesale.
Have Bingo Games.

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Actually, you are recycling, you are reusing the bag at least once prior to throwing it away. Also, unless you are creating a ton of trash, I highly doubt that you are throwing them out that quickly. Finally, one of the reasons that they are making plastic bags so thin is to make them more environmentally friendly.

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I’m only aware of bottle cap recycling in Canada- however there are some “crafty” ways to recycle bottle caps. If you have any head start, preshools or elementary schools in the area you could ask them if they would like a donation of bottle caps to use for craft supplies. Programs funded by govt. Grants are usually looking for In kind donations! Here is a site that uses common items for crafts.

Http://www.allfreecrafts.com/phprint.php

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Selling or recycling. Don’t throw it away. Some resources for finding a means of recycling can be found in the link below.

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All cans can be recycled at a local can bank, or if you are lucky enough to have a comprehensive kerbside recycling service. It does not matter if they are aerosol cans but it helps to remove the plastic top!

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Paper and glass are bleached heavily when they are recycled and the chemicals used pollute the water and air.
Aluminum is a limited resource and the process to recycle is less harmful than the ones used for paper and glass.
Plastic is petroleum based and is also a limited resource.
If you don’t have room to recycle everything you should recycle plastic and aluminum.

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If you live in a city you probably have a household hazardous waste centre you can google your city name and household hazardous waste, if you have one you should be able to find it that way. I have one in my area and they recycle lots of things that the regular recycling centre could not because they are dangerous things.

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Its always good to have a recyling plant in terms of the environment, however it may not be appealing to most residents.

You need to weigh up the pro’s & cons

Many residents may suffer from noise/smell pollution, but overall the broader environment will benefit as less resources may be used if we recycle more as well as less harmfull gases !

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Not on a federal holiday.

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If redundancy were abuse, we could sue our political leaders!

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Personally, I enjoy documentaries alot. There’s no other way to gain so much knowledge with so little effort. I ‘m sure a teacher could make good use of them. Why not offer them up on Freecycle? Www.freecycle.org. PLEASE don’t throw them away. Bios of AM presidents doesn’t hold any great appeal for me but I would pay for shipping of the Ken Burns Jazz.

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I totally agree! Why worry about 300 years time if you are going to die of e-coli or diptheria anytime soon!!!!!

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Look in your yard for another garbage can, a brightly colored one, maybe it’s blue or yellow for instance. That garbage can will have a white triangle stamped on the side. Hide those recycle-ables in those cans. The garbage man can only see green or black garbage cans so when the garbage man comes he won’t see them!
Now- here’s the secret, when the garbage man’s gone sneek those brightly colored cans out to the curb, especially whenever you hear a big truck that makes sounds of glass bottles being collected, and that’s it! They magically empty themselves! Just remember to bring those empty colored cans back from the street so you can fool your garbage man again in the future! Good luck.

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The ultimate problem with recycling and disposal of trash comes down to energy and pollution. Disposing on Earth can cause pollution and recycling can save energy and reduce pollution if done correctly. To send it to the moon would cost orders of magnitude more energy than just disposing of it, and the pollution of sending all those rockets into space would also be unfathomable.

Even if energy was cheap and you could send the material without polluting, you’d be able to spend the energy much more efficiently on pollution abatement of the trash on earth (incinerators with smokestack scrubbers, and other things that right now are too expensive because energy is too expensive)

The only material worth sending into space would be extremely hazardous material such as nuclear waste, but then the danger of a crash or explosion would not be acceptable. Good thinking but that particular scenario will not physically or energetically ever make sense.

Edit: It doesn’t matter what you use to launch the stuff to the moon. It will always take at least the amount of energy that is the gravitational potential difference between the earth and the moon, plus all of the fixed material costs needed to effect the transport. It’s simply conservation of energy. If you solve any of those problems, then you will have solved all of the Earth’s energy problems, and if you have done that, then you will surely find a much simpler solution to deal with pollution which uses less energy. Unless you just like wasting energy for the coolness of it all. In that case, go ahead and do it. I mean, in that case, why not send all of our trash and prisoners into a new orbit and create a new planet with really delicious food where you don’t have to work hard.

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I think that it is done when it is economically viable. If there is no market or an over abundance of a particular recyclable, then I suspect it is disposed in the trash stream.

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It is floating, polluting, contaminating garbage. It cannot be picked up, cleaned/isolated and refined into a useful product. It’s just a horrible man-made disaster, and there is absolutely nothing that can, will, or can be made to come out of it.

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About 10 most weeks, if I organised my cycling a bit better, I could travel less and achieve the same things.
But cycling enables me to help others, whereas walking would mean I could spend much less time doing things for them.
The oil I use on the chain and bearings is only a tiny amount, and the extra cycling I do does not increase the amount of oil I apply to the cycle.
Yesterday I left my cycle at an hospital and walked around the place to get something to eat, and a better understanding of the area, while waiting for visiting time to come round. I also had time to cycle to a library to spend some time while waiting for visiting times.

Do you NEED to use a car to go to work?

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You’re right! Iit is best to eliminate as much animal fat from our diet as possible, not just bacon grease. But, as you look around you, much of the population ignores this recommendation. Some people get lucky with a favorable set of genes; consequently their cholesterol and triglycerides remain low in spite of diet. The rest of us aren’t so fortunate.

As I see it, talk with your mom, try to educate her boyfriend and your aunt. If no luck, you may have to do all of your own cooking or move out. Good luck on a satisfactory resolution of a thorny problem.

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No, the system is not sustainable now. Yes, we should reuse, recycle and reduce waste. We should aim with all our might to make things… Say, less unsustainable than they are now. Without regard or connection to economic growth or lack thereof.

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She. Is. PISSED!

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Cut them up into little squares and boil them for about 2 mins and use them in a broth… Its good…

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The more wear resistant you make a tire the less traction it has. Making tires is a study in compromises.

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I agree that plastic is used/wasted too much. Especially in the UK when it comes to the amount of unecesarry packaging on supermarket items, and the total wastage of carrier bags.
But, are we to rely on paper bags for everything? That means trees are chopped down, which interferes with the eco-system of lots of animals and insects. So, no matter what options we take we will always leave a destructive footprint. It would be nice to live in a perfect world – but I think we’re all adults here and realize that fairies don’t exist. Except in MY garden. ‘)

Personally I try to use as little plastic as possible – but, because of the amount of it used in the modern world it can be difficult. I also don’t drive a car or use public transport – I generally walk everywhere or on occasion ride my bike. So, only a little oil there…yay me.

One thing is though, why is it that people always presume just because your’e a veg*n that you’re also a so-called eco-warrior?

I also haven’t seen too much preaching and hating of omni’s in here either – in my personal experience I have found it’s usually the omni’s who do the preaching and hating.
Which is pretty sad really.

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2 D. 0; 4
3 A. Cutting oils, gear and petroleum-based cooling oils
4 B. Scrap glass and plastic
7 B. Immediately placed in an acid-resistant container
11 B. Health hazard
12 C. Throw used oil filters in the trash

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Hi there, you are to be commended for recycling.

Go to www.911.org and just put in your zip code. It will give you a list of the centers nearest to you.

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UGH! I lived in NY too and we always recycled! I now live in Texas and nope they don’t do it! I’m a little disappointed about it…I actually liked recycling…

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Hi u can make money on these the actuall price of scrap is £30 a ton but are they alumminum ones because if they are and u have lots if u wait till after christmas scrap & metal prices are meant to rise so ull be quids in as for giving them away thats maddnes just to make someone else a proffit

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To a scrap metal place like where they buy cars.

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Look it up in the phone book under recycling.

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Go to www.earth911.org to locate a local recycle center, there should be contact info so you can get the rate.

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Well it all depends where you live in Chicago…I know of a few places in the southeast side if you are interested. That is good that you are recycling these cans and even better if you could get so many bags full of them you might even be better off selling these cans..lol…well many people do earn a living by just doing so taking all kinds of aluminum to these recycling areas. Well i wish you the best of luck selling these cans and hopefully you get what they are worth.

Www.resourcecenterchicago.org – (773) 821-1351
www.recyclingcenters.org – (312) 226-0473
www.universalscrap.com – (312) 666-0011
www.recyclingcenters.org – (773) 252-1989
www.resourcecenterchicago.org – (773) 493-1470
www.recyclingservices.com – (773) 247-2070

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Try going to the link below and selecting your city.

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I don’t know about making money off recycling batteries but here are a couple of sources for information on locations. Call2Recycle for locations at 1-877-2-recycle and also you can contact the Battery Council International. Also I have seen drop off boxes at Home
Depot and Lowe’s.

In the recycling process, spent—or dead—batteries are broken apart, and the lead, plastic and acid are separated. The lead is melted, poured into ingots and delivered to battery plants to be used in new batteries. The plastic is chipped, washed and delivered to a plastics plant, where it is melted and made into new battery cases and other parts.

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Put it this way, There is a tool. You can get it free over the internet. It’s called Glary Utility’s. I have used it several times to recover data thought to be deleted. If you want to make sure something is gone use Ccleaner. On the advanced tab check wipe free space. You can also check Options, Settings, Secure file delete. In the box check Gutmann. 35 passes. I’ve tried it. It works.

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Hehehe…. Start diggin

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Sometimes it gets deleted by accident, but it should be on the desktop. To get it back, simply right click on the desktop, select “Personalize” from the menu, now on the very left select “Change Desktop Icons” click on that and make sure the Recycle Bin is checked.

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You can often successfully recover deleted files from a PC, it all depends on what has happened since the files were deleted.
When you delete files the data itself isn’t deleted, just the index entry that tells the system where the data for those files is located. The area containing the deleted data is also now marked as free space so it is available for any new files to be written there instead.

If and when that happens, then it is too late to recover your deleted files so it is very, very important to not save any new files or data to the device concerned.

One of the easiest ways to see if you can recover deleted files is to try some good file recovery software.

A good tip is to try the free demo version of a commercial product that will scan the device for deleted files and show you exactly what files can be recovered. At least that will show you if you can recover the deleted files or if it’s too late already. You can find more useful information on how to recover deleted files at
http://www.asoftech.com/apr/

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Essentially they are gone. You would have to run file recovery software or do a system restore to get something back.

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Open the Trash window, then open Terminal and type

rm [space]

then drag the file into the Terminal window and press return.

Make sure the Terminal window is forefront before you press return or it will not delete the file

If the file is being particularly obstinate, there’s probably a problem with its permissions. In this case, just type:

sudo rm [space] and drag the file and [return].

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This could be the device problem…

Just report that problem to the device/mechanical service about this situation…

Good luck!

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If the laptop won’t start then you have to take out the hard drive. However, there is a cheap fix. There is this gizzmo called hard drive reader, Its a USB device that plugs into your computer, via USB and your old hard drive plugs into it. It runs about 30 or 40 bucks. 🙂

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In our community, they tell us that the plastic is so negligible, that’s its OK to toss those window envelopes in with the regular mixed paper.

It seems that every community has a different recycling program ~ perhaps it would be best if you called your local recycling carrier and asked them directly.

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There are plenty of plastic recycling facilities.

I don’t know where you live but I have a separate bin that is collected that is for plastic to be recycled.

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YOU can, buy only plastic that’s recyclable. Others shall follow.

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I wish I knew. I used that bin also. I called HEB and they stated it was removed because people were putting trash in it.

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Well I’m a Packaging major… So I have a lil’ knowledge about this. Yes you can do that but, only if your recycling collection point separates the glass from plastic. I’m pretty sure your facility sorts them out, if they have bins labeled for both materials. That means they sorted plastic from glass before, and they probably still do. If they didn’t, they would let you know.

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My understanding is that isn’t true. However, leaving the cap on your bottles can create a bit of a safety hazard to the workers at the material recovery facility that it ends up at. When they bale plastic, they compress it. Under heavy compression, that cap can become a high-velocity projectile (it’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye!). Not to mention, the bottles are generally made of a grade of plastic (#2 HDPE) than the cap. #1 & #2 plastics are about eight times more valuble on the recycling market than #3-7 plastics, thus contamination results in a lower quality material to the eventual buyer.

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Every item made of plastic in recent times has a number inside triangle molded into it. The number identifies the kind of plastic. Not all kinds can be recycled. You will have to ask whether the places that take stuff for recycling will pay anything. Generally they don’t for anything but aluminum, but it varies by local and from year to year.

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Well maybe your resturant should recycle.
That would help ALOT

and most schools have recycling bins in their parking lots that are free for the public to but recyclable items in.
And you can also call your city and ask were to get recycle.

Or even better you can start your own recycling program in your community and save alot of trees

its worth it 😀

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I think generally the answer is no. Different materials for recycling have different values and the value of plastic for recycling is so low that it only adds up to a worthwhile figure when the quantities are enormous.
But it is still important to recycle plastic because of the damage that discarded plastic can do. It takes hundreds of years to decompose and in the meantime disfigures the environment and is damaging to wild life.
Better even than recycling is to minimise the quantities that you buy. For example instead of buying bottled water use one of your spare bottles and fill it with water from your tap (faucet). Such water is generally perfectly fit to drink in the developed world.
Best wishes for a more sustainable world.

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You picked a great craft idea.

Recycled Craft Ideas – Crafts from Recycled Materials …
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How to recycle common household items, recycling crafts, ideas and reuses; how to make old into new.
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Here are some great project and recycled craft ideas for reusing and recycling everyday items you might have around the house.
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Repurpose new bags or reuse old ones with economical ideas for bags of all types … FreeKidsCrafts Recycled Crafts Use egg cartons, old containers …
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Craft Green by Making these Trash to Treasure Crafts Creative and fun ideas for recycling trash into crafts – craft green! By Sherri Osborn, About.com Guide
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Think it’s garbage? Think again. We’ve got lots of ideas for things you can do with all that old stuff to recycle, re-use it, and make stuff with it!
Http://www.make-stuff.com/recycling
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Recycle, reduce and reuse. Using things destined for the recycle bin in craft projects is not limited to children’s egg carton and paper tube crafts. There are plenty …
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While not quite a trademark search, you might check of the .com domain name is available for the name you pick, if it is there’s a good chance none of the billion others are using it. It would cost $10/yr to lock up the domain name even if you don;t make a site right away.

There are sites with tools that help you come up with fictitious names, including: wordlab.com, wordoid.com, lingzini.com, namestation.com, some of these tools look up the domain name availability as you go.

Marketer types would use a domain containing a phrase people actually search for, this would give a slight advantage in search results ranking. Perhaps VintageGreenHandcrafted.

Have you checked out the ebay of hand crafted etsy,com, you might find some inspiration there.

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Maybe together you could make a belt or some type of chainemaille out of pop tops that you pull off of drink cans or pet food cans. You could make the blue jean hat and make a pop top hat band. Here is a link to something similar, although a bit advanced, but you get the idea.

Http://www.novica.com/itemdetail/index.cfm?pID=129160

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Wire is made of metal which is a highly sought after recyclable…..Of course, gold is more valuable than silver, silver more valuable than copper, and copper more valuable than tin. The more valuable a metal is, the more likely that it will be recycled in small quanities; crafting wire used by an individual is not likely to be scrapped in large quantities. Another thing that affects how likely a material is to actually be recycled is its coating and/or how easy it is to actually retrieve the metal. This would include paint, plastic coatings, and whether or not it is actually encased in some other material like paster of paris. If your area or community has a process that collects and gathers small quantities of metal into a larger cache/pile the chances are all the higher that your small quanities of craft generated wire will actually be recycled.

Off the top of my head, I would think that copper wire would be the most readily recycled/resued followed by steel; that is unless you plan on using actual gold or silver.

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Here are a few sites for your review.
Have fun with the project.

Http://www.bluebonnetvillage.com/kids.htm

http://www.kinderart.com/recycle/

http://www.allfreecrafts.com/recycling-crafts/

http://www.ziggityzoom.com/parentsguide/content/kids-craft-projects-out-household-recycled-materials

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Mabey look at instuctibales.com ( I don’t know if that’s how you spell it.) they have really cool things you can do as crafts most are recycleable

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You could donate the canisters to your nearest primary school, we use them as little glue pots!

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Hi,

There is a tutorial how to make jewelry from newspaper. Its sound funny isn’t it? You can find it at

http://jewelry-skills.blogspot.com

Thanks
James

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This article creates a seeded tray but you could use anything that the seeds will stick to. There are also seed beads instead of the editable and plant varieties.

Create a seeded serving trayhttp://www.ehow.com/how_5123614_create-seeded-serving-tray.html

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I have also enjoyed the benefits of freecycle! I do what I can to recycle and reuse many products. I have a garden in my backyard and I use seeds that I have saved from previous years, I also roll up my newspapers to use as logs in my fireplace in the winter months. My outdoor water is considered irrigation water, not fit to drink but without all the chemicals used for potable water. I learned all of this from my parents who grew up in a time where nothing was wasted! My now grown up son is asking me for advice on gardening and planting! He is also very earth friendly!

I will be glad to join hands with you to save our mother!

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Please visity www.freecycle.org – it’s a wonderful organization to keep still usable items out of landfills and find new homes for them – as they say: one man’s trash is another man’s treasure 🙂
You can find a yahoo group in your area and join – it’s all local.

Thanx – hope this helps you a lot…

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Composting at home OR by town (you get a separate bin for composting and the bin man takes it away to a municipal compost tip)
where my sister lives they have a box for papers, one for tins and bottles and one for compostables. They pick that one up every week and every two weeks for the other two. The compostables go to a large scale compost tip and they are allowed to put a lot more into the compost bin than you would if you were composting at home.

Good luck on your paper

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CABY (Community Action By Youth) International; From Apathy to Empathy

Pay a visit!

Http://www.cabyinternational.org/campaigns.htm
http://www.cabyinternational.org/getinvolved.htm
http://www.cabyinternational.org/initiativeform.htm
http://www.cabyinternational.org/joinform.htm
http://www.cabyinternational.org/leadershipform.htm

http://www.cabyinternational.org/leaders.htm

http://www.igloo.org/cabyblog/timetota

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Hi Daniel,

The City of Irvine has information on multi-unit recycling on this site:
http://www.cityofirvine.us/programs/recycling/household-recycling/multi-unit-recycling/

It also provides maps of recycling bin locations for various complexes in Irvine here:
http://www.cityofirvine.us/programs/recycling/household-recycling/multi-unit-recycling/multi-unit-recycling-maps/

– Lisa
Library school student

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Well first of all garbage collecting in the United States is a necessary public service. Secondly The land fills are built so well to keep garbage in that they can preserve organic material for decades. They have become a way to produce power from methane collection, and Waste Management Inc. Also does the recycling program. So from what i see everyone is doing a great job.

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No, it’s not.
Only the 25% of water bottles are getting recycled,
and there are indescribable amounts of trashes being
dumped every year.
These last century has been a development of manufacturing, skills, and industrial revolution.
There may be some enviroment lovers preffuring organic foods only, and people so amazing like Al Gore, but with so much people on this nation; it’s not enough at all.
If we continue producing carbon footprints so much like this, in less than 100years some countries on the pacific oceans may SUBMERGE.(example : Island Tubaloo)
We may suffer from skin cancers and things such like so by the development of the Glober Warming, and with so much people and so much land, America would take a big part as the causer and the sufferer.
But although America would contribute a bigger part in the development of the Glober Warming, it would not be the first to suffer;;
don’t you think this is unfair?
It’s time we’ve got to notice the critical stage of this and got to stop the Global Warming by recycling, reducing trashes, using bicycles, etc.
Watch “An Inconvinient Truth” for more!!! 🙂

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I would talk to some of your neighbors before the meeting. See what interest there is in recycling. Also use it as a chance to eduate them a little bit.

One option might even be to do a petition for most of the neighborhood. Not every homeowner will attend this meeting, but if you can get maybe 60%+ of the homeowners to sign and say they want recycling, how could the HOA Board of Directors say no?

If they turn down the recycle option, can you find some other company (perhaps a nonprofit?) who can send a truck to a central pick up point in the neighborhood to remove all the recyclables? Call around and see what other trash haulers are doing, too.

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They are making biodegradable plastics from corn.

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The last bath tub I got rid of was an old cast iron tub. It got taken and sold to a scrap yard for the metal to be recycled.

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There are different theories of punishment:
Retribution: Punish people to satisfy the natural desire of victims for revenge.
Deterrence: So offenders (and potential offenders) will behave out of fear of punishment and the risk of punishment.
Security: Take dangerous people out of the environment to protect everyone.
Rehabilitation: To restrain offenders in order to compel them to submit to whatever form of education or therapy is likely to turn them from their ant-social ways.

The trouble is that in the US there is no one consistent theory — so the “purposes” of imprisonment are all jumbled together & conflict with each other & different people will answer your question differently.

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Im sorry cant help, do the math, good luck~!

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I’ve thought about this as well. Prisons are suppose to reform people but unfortunately it has become more about punishment and just having a place to keep people who are not fit to live amongst other people.

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Man, that really sucks, especially since you’ve gotten notices from the city. I run a webcam at my house during the day for security reasons (and just so I can watch the dogs play in the yard, etc.). Perhaps you could try that. I use Ustream.tv to host my cam. It’s accessible online so I can watch it while at work or at a friend’s house, etc. You have to sign up to use the service, but it’s free. It also records and saves the recording to your account online, but it only records two hours (I think) and then it reverts to just broadcast mode. If you leave the house in the morning that probably won’t work, but you might give it a try.

Heck, set a webcam up in your window and put a sign on the curb saying that you’ve received notices from the city that their dumping is against ordinance, so you’re recording them right now to find out who they are.

Good luck with it, man… That’s REALLY annoying. Hey…. Have you gone through their garbage to see if their name/address is on anything in it?

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No your not odd, you are a responsible citizen (we don’t see many people like you). You need to do what I done a few weeks ago and take pictures of the rubbish they leave behind and tape them to your trash can with a note and also take copies of the pics to your city council. Part of my incident was the trash people was crushing trash in front of my house leaving crushed glass on the streets and the trash cans in the streets. My neighbors laughed at me for sweeping up the street, well I don’t won’t punctured tires.

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OK, let’s picture this.
To make things a bit easier, convert the cubic yard to cubic feet.
1 cubic yard = 27 cubic feet (3 x 3 x 3), 1 yard = 3 feet.

Now one room in your house is about say 15 feet long, 20 feet wide and say 15 feet in height so that is 15 x 15 x 20 = 4500 cubic feet.

But 340 cubic yard = 340 x 27 = 9180 cubic feet.

This means the trash is enough to fill slightly over 2 rooms in your house.

Don’t mean to describe your home, but picturing the volume as room size may make it clearer.

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7-11 only sells the small bags. Go to a proper supermarket to get larger sizes. Pizza boxes are made of cardboard – that is recyclable and thus doesn´t need to be put in the bag.

Recycle – anything with the recycle symbol – looks like a square made of arrows – look on any plactic or can to see what it looks like. If the packaging has this mark then recycle and save on garbage bags.
PLUS: recycle any paper, cardboard, glass, metal, computer parts.

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Every year my town does a spring cleanup where you toss whatever you want gone on the roadside and it gets hauled away. The folks around here are fairly friendly with garbage pickers/scavengers. If they toss out stuff that can be re-used they put it neatly or label appliances or whatever whether it works or not. Seriously you can’t get anywhere around here during springtime because folks are always driving slow passed the piles of junk to see what’s there lol!

Anyways, I have nothing against these folks.. Its that much less that ends up in the landfill. The folks you dealt with though.. Very aggressive.. I would have been irritated… That’s not saying much though.. I’m always irritated lately. Anyways it sounds like you handled them gracefully. It does make you wonder what people are thinking sometimes though.

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Firstly, there is no ‘Japanese’ recycling system. Every area has its own system and this can even vary within a township. So, on the basis of this there are a huge number of variations that can exist. Generally, the minimum separation of trash is burnable / non-burnable / glass / PET bottles / polystyrene / cans. This can be expanded to include different plastics, compostable items, steel, inorganic collection. Different trash has specific days of collection, maybe once a week or once a month.

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You can find a wealth of information at WWW.HRRA.ORG . The Housatonic Resources Recovery Authority is a regional, governmental, waste management and recycling authority serving eleven municipalities in western Connecticut . You will find recycling pamphlets there and information on the 2010 Earth Day poster contest. They also have information on school recycling programs and other recycling related events.

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Try planetgreen.com
or treehuggers.com

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METAL

*Every year we save enough energy recycling steel to supply L.A. With nearly a decade’s worth of electricity.

*We save enough energy by recycling one aluminum can to run a TV set for three hours.

*Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch. That means you can make 20 cans out of recycled material with the same amount of energy it takes to make one can out of new material. Energy savings in 1993 alone were enough to light a city the size of Pittsburgh for six years. .

*Americans throw away enough aluminum every month to rebuild our entire commercial air fleet.

*Recycling steel and tin cans saves 74% of the energy used to produce them.

* Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans every day.

*Americans throw out enough iron and steel to supply all the nation’s automakers on a continuous basis.

*A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces related water pollution, air pollution and mining wastes by about 70%.

** When you toss out one aluminum can you waste as much energy as if you’d filled the same can half-full of gasoline and poured it into the ground.

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Advantages- Recycling help to limit the amount of glass, paper, and plastic that must be produced. This will end with less garbage in landfills becuase it’s being reused. Disadvantages- Seperate factories must be set up for the recycling of materials, this will just cause more pollution.

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Aluminum Recycling Facts

– A used aluminum can is recycled and back on the grocery shelf as a new can, in as little as 60 days. That’s closed loop recycling at its finest!
– Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S., but other types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters, car components, storm window frames, and lawn furniture can also be recycled.
– Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.
-More aluminum goes into beverage cans than any other product.
– Because so many of them are recycled, aluminum cans account for less than 1% of the total U.S. Waste stream, according to EPA estimates.
– An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!
– There is no limit to the amount of times an aluminum can be recycled.
– We use over 80,000,000,000 aluminum soda cans every year.
– At one time, aluminum was more valuable than gold!
– A 60-watt light bulb can be run for over a day on the amount of energy saved by recycling 1 pound of steel. In one year in the United States, the recycling of steel saves enough energy to heat and light 18,000,000 homes!

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Paper Recycling Facts

– To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.
-Recycling a single run of the Sunday New York Times would save 75,000 trees.
– If all our newspaper was recycled, we could save about 250,000,000 trees each year!
– If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.
– If you had a 15-year-old tree and made it into paper grocery bags, you’d get about 700 of them. A busy supermarket could use all of them in under an hour! This means in one year, one supermarket can go through over 6 million paper bags! Imagine how many supermarkets there are just in the United States!!!
– The average American uses seven trees a year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees. This amounts to about 2,000,000,000 trees per year!
– The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50,000,000 homes for 20 years.
– Approximately 1 billion trees worth of paper are thrown away every year in the U.S.
– Americans use 85,000,000 tons of paper a year; about 680 pounds per person.
– The average household throws away 13,000 separate pieces of paper each year. Most is packaging and junk mail.
– In 1993, U.S. Paper recovery saved more than 90,000,000 cubic yards of landfill space.
– Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!
– The 17 trees saved (above) can absorb a total of 250 pounds of carbon dioxide from the air each year. Burning that same ton of paper would create 1500 pounds of carbon dioxide.
– The construction costs of a paper mill designed to use waste paper is 50 to 80% less than the cost of a mill using new pulp.

Recycle Plastic

Plastic Recycling Facts

– Americans use 2,500,000 plastic bottles every hour! Most of them are thrown away!
– Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!
– Recycling plastic saves twice as much energy as burning it in an incinerator.
– Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam coffee cups every year.

Recycle Bottles

Glass Recycling Facts

– Every month, we throw out enough glass bottles and jars to fill up a giant skyscraper. All of these jars are recyclable!
– The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours or a compact fluorescent bulb for 20 hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.
– A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose — and even longer if it’s in the landfill.
– Mining and transporting raw materials for glass produces about 385 pounds of waste for every ton of glass that is made. If recycled glass is substituted for half of the raw materials, the waste is cut by more than 80%.

Landfill

Solid Waste and Landfills

– About one-third of an average dump is made up of packaging material!
– Every year, each American throws out about 1,200 pounds of organic garbage that can be composted.
– The U.S. Is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.
– The highest point in Hamilton County, Ohio (near Cincinnati) is “Mount Rumpke.” It is actually a mountain of trash at the Rumpke sanitary landfill towering 1045 ft. Above sea level.
– The US population discards each year 16,000,000,000 diapers, 1,600,000,000 pens, 2,000,000,000

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Did you know that recycling 10 cans saves 4 pounds of CO2?

Think of how many people drink from a can each day (sodas,snapple,etc.)

it all adds up=)

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1. Drink your can of crappy soda
2. Stick in the recycling bag
3. Put out for recycling team
4. Buy new can of crappy soda

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This site[1] says a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours, which is 0.4 kiloWatt hours, or 1.44MJ (MegaJoules… Million Joules).

That amount of energy is equivalent to a 100W bulb for 4 hours, or 1 million Watts for 1.44 seconds, or 1 Watt for 400 hours.

Watts measure power (change in energy / change in time), energy is measured in Joules. As you can see above, using Watts to measure energy doesn’t work. The answer could be 1 Watt or 1 million Watts, but it is always 1.44 million Joules.

1 Joule is the gravitational energy associated with moving about 0.1kg up by 1 metre in the gravitational field of the Earth. So 1.44MJ is the increase in potential energy of 144 tonnes raised by 1 metre.