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There should be designated recycling centers stationed outside of some of tour neighborhood. Those you payed a “deposit” on should have a CS CRV marking, values seem to be based on size, that 50 cent bottle sounds like a 3 gallon water bottle?

Hey should pay a token mount for other containers like an opaque water bottle, oddly a pure juice apple bottle may have no CRV while Apple-Cranberry will.

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Recycling is a very good idea. It makes money for you and friends, and helps the economy. A Pepsi or coke can of average size requires about 7 cans per pound if not mistaken. The tall cans a little less. Look for those plastic soda bottles. Many have a refund printed on them for 5 cents. Glass, other aluminum items, cardboard and newspapers also pay. Have a bike with a trailer, or 2 in tandem? Ask for the scrap wires at construction sights for the copper in them. Can’t help you with the location of a recycling center in Santa Ana however. I’m in Idaho. Good luck.

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Recycling programs have evolved to the need based on demographics. Normally more populated areas use recycling because of the increased amount of trash. Some states do not require it because of a sparse population and the fact that they still have lots of space in their designated landfills. California heads the movement to save the Earth. They enforce reuse, recycle processes. We pay an environmental charge which is added to our trash bill to recycle. It costs to take our reusable wastes and recycle them into resources and it is extending the life of our environment and the ecosystems around us. Hope this helps.

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If you need to find other centers in another city/state, you can try this portal:

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By weight sounds more properiate

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The only recyclables that you can get money for at the present is aluminum and other metals. Plastic is not a profitable recycle stream and most communities either have to pay for plastic recycling or get pennies on the ton. The reference is a page for companies in Charlotte, NC. The reason your friend in CA was getting paid, was in CA you pay a deposit on all plastic and cans when you buy them. You aren’t getting paid. You are getting your money back. There is no deposit in NC.

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Since you didn’t specify your city, I can’t provide an exact place. Check out http://earth911.org and specify that you want to recycle steel and put in your zipcode and it will give you the closest place to call.

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Check out local flyers. Presently, recycling centers are battling for your cans, Offers as high as $1.95 per pound for clean, dry, uncrushed cans would equal 9.75 cents per can if 100 cans per 5 pounds.

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Advertise that your club will be piking up recycling materials on a certain Sat. In a certain area of the city or two areas if you have enough students to help each sat. The next pick up should be scheduled a month later in another area(s) and then rotate your areas to cover the city well. One sat each mo. Should be enough to keep busy students from missing other activities or family .Find a good place to sort and store your materials until you have enough to take for recycling. Best wishes and thanks for the efforts!

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Maybe? This is the R&S and so you might want to ask on another section
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Garbage trucks pick up garbage. There should be a different truck picking up the stuff to be recycled. Maybe your dad was misinformed about it or is too lazy to get a box.

Find out where all the stuff goes to in order to be recycled and if the plant is close enough to you, go there and ask people working there if you can get one there. They’ll be glad to help you as much as they can. You can also look for a number once you find out where it is.

If that doesn’t work, go to any ouse where you see the boxes and ask where they got their and when you can get one.

While you’re doing all that, take all the recyclables you have so you have it ready once you get the box.

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Think about what you are buying first and how the packaging will be disposed of:

Don’t buy as much stuff. As much consumer goods, food, furniture, presents, wrapping paper, limit your consumption of everything.

Use your local butcher who will wrap in paper.

Buy fruit and vegetables from local growers it supports your local economy. There are usually lots of recycled cardboard boxes at Farmer’s markets.

Buy from the local baker wraps in paper.

Buy milk in glass bottles or recyclable plastic.

Avoid pre packed foods and processed foods. The packaging is excessive.

Don’t use paper or plastic carrier bags, use any bags you already have at home, keep them in the boot of your car.

If you forget your bags recycle the cardboard boxes at the store to carry your groceries home or just pack into the boot of your car without bags and then carry in from the boot.

Most towns and cities have recycling facilities somewhere. Ensure you recycle metals, plastics, glass, cardboard, mobile phones, spectacles, old clothing and batteries. Whenever you travel into town, drop your recyclables off, don’t make a special journey. Even if you don’t shop at supermarkets they do usually have recycling facilities you can use.

Compost green waste.

If you live in a hot country, then dig a deep hole, put all food waste into it, including leftover meat and bones and cover it with a layer of earth and a wooden ‘lid’. This lid can be anything, even an old door will do. The food will rapidly decompose in hot countries and if you add a thick enough layer of soil, it should never smell.

Donate still usable items to charity shops such as clothing, shoes, brick-a-brack, books, cds, dvds, games and toys, at least other people get the use of them.

There will be hardly anything left to go to landfill.

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I’ve seen 1000 Ways to Die and it was terrible. I have no idea, though. I’d just pray and embrace what death would feel like.

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If that true why do we sort them out in them green Boxes. I dunno probably owned by a privet company, you know how most of england is privatised. I think some one is making a lot of money from it. I used to get 10p for every glass bottle i returned.

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In a number of areas they practice “Single stream” collection- it would appear that is what you are describing.

Yes- it is a very legitimate and the most efficient manner to collect recyclables, It is much more efficient because you do not need to duplicate equipment purchased, personell to operate the equipment, or duplicate routes which waste fuel. It also is more effcient for water resources, for minimizing sorting errors, implementation of composting is easier, it makes life a lot simpler. The money saved from not spending it on duplicating equipment can be applied to expanding the transfer station/tipping station, and since you still need personell to sort it- no net loss of jobs.

You can read numerous articles about it by looking through the archives of http://www.wastenews.com

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Many areas do not have household recycling systems in place. Most places do however have recycling for specific materials, such as aluminium cans. You will have to sort them out yourselves and take them to the nearest place that will accept the cans but if you do so they will usually pay you for it. Other types of material that are often paid for are glass, other types of metal, and in some places certain plastics. Check around for scrap yards or call a local city/county offical to find out where the nearest recyclers are located.

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A different perspective might help, we mine millions of tons of raw ores
out of the ground yearly to make stuff out of it, all that takes a fantastic amount of energy and depletes the usable land for the rest of us
This cam be accomplished by recycling with only a fraction of that energy (and expense).Consider the fuel alone it take to power mining operation, then add all the equipment,tires,trucks, housing, and you’ll get the picture
Recycling is simply cheaper overall

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Tie them down somehow.

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1. Corrosives

2. Fertilizer

3. Lower Grade Of Plastic Due To Recycling

4. Saves 320 Gallons Of Oil

5. In Your Home

6. Renew

7. The best thing about recycling is…
The best part about recycling is the fact that you are helping your country prepare for a better tomorrow. Recycling also gives me the feeling that you are making a difference in your community and how people look up to you.

Sometimes recycling is hard because…
Recycling is sometimes hard because you have to get down and dirty to help your planet. It is sometimes hard to recycle because other people don’t care as much as you, and litter.

I promise not to litter because…
Littering causes the planet to become polluted, then it is useless to everyone. Litter just adds trash to the America’s beautiful scenery.

Besides recycling, I do the following to help my environment…
I always make sure to not take showers that are longer then 30 minutes, in order to help save water. I carpool or take the bus to lessen our effect on the Ozone.

…. And God Bless America!

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I don’t think recyclers sort them out individually. They throw them in a huge melting pot and the different plastics in liquid form rest at different levels. Drain off the level that is that particular plastic.

To have millions and millions of plastic containers all inspected individually is just too time consuming and makes recycling too expensive!

Http://www.tl-import-export.de/export/glossary.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_recycling

Good luck.

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You may need to spend some time to cruise the following web articles to find the recycling process.
Http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=The%20newest%20simple%20recycling%20process
The new ultra-sophisticated recycling process probably in the following web site, but not necessarily effective and applicable.
Http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=The%20new%20ultra-sophisticated%20recycling%20process

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Well, i agree with u.

Businesses are just following the rules set by government on environment impact of their products, thus they do for the sake of doing…..
Once u pay them for whatever, they dont really give a hoot what is the outcome!

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It can be expensive and sometimes time consuming but you have to look at it from the right angle…recycling helps the planet and if everyone did it our earth would be in much better shape. So don’t think about the cost and the time, think about saving our planet for the next seven generations to come.

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Honestly, why bags? Is it because they cant afford trays?

Teachers waste energy by leaving lights on, overheads, and computers on. Things they could do to conserve energy is to turn overheads off, and give instructions by voice. They should put their computers on sleep and that saves a bunch of energy, all the while saving the session of your teacher. When theres no one in the classroom teachers can turn lights off unless they need some light. Then use a window or just one set of lights.

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In addition to the lawn debris, be sure to put into your compost: egg shells, vegetables too old or uncrisp to eat, coffee grounds (not real often), and (believe it or not): Poo from your dog – NOT cat.

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Compost all biologicals. Might be stinky but once you have your compost colony going and supply with a variety of detritus, you will have plenty of stuff to nurture your yard and neighbouring trees and plants.

As for the rest: don’t buy plastic, period. I’m sure that anything you can get in plastic you can also get in paper, glass or metal, which are more readily reciclable than plastic, which aside from being hard to recycle due to its different kinds, local recycling facilities might not have the specific capability to recycle some kinds of plastics.

Now go, save the planet and let nobody hold you back.

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Green is the new red.

“Green” marketing is typically nothing more than that, marketing. It’s a ploy to separate you from your money.
In many cases recycling items is worse for the environment than just discarding them and getting new stuff.
Processing toxins in recycling can make the finished product completely safe. But what happens to the removed toxins? They get dumped. Or they get further processed.
All the sorting, transporting, and processing uses energy. In most cases more energy than making the item new.

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You can find out all about eCycling (electronic recycling) at the EPA web site http://www.epa.gov/wastes/conserve/materials/ecycling/index.htm

TV Recycling

Where Can I Donate or Recycle My Old Computer and Other Electronics?

Recycle Your Cell Phone. It’s an Easy Call.

Responsible Recycling Practices

Resource Conservation Challenge partnerships and initiatives on electronics

The use of electronic products has grown substantially over the past two decades, changing the way and the speed in which we communicate and how we get information and entertainment. Our growing reliance on electronics is illustrated by some remarkable figures. According to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), Americans own approximately 24 electronic products per household.1

EPA is working to educate consumers and others on why it is important to reuse and recycle electronics and what the options are for safe reuse and recycling of these products. State and local governments, manufacturers, and retailers, who are already aware of the pressing need to better manage these materials, are providing more opportunities to recycle and reuse this equipment. Many computer manufacturers, TV manufacturers, and electronics retailers offer some kind of take back program or sponsor recycling events. Many states have passed some sort of legislation to manage end-of-life electronics, and more are expected to follow suit.

Http://www.epa.gov/wastes/conserve/materials/ecycling/index.htm

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http://www.epa.gov/wastes/conserve/materials/ecycling/basic.htm

Reusing and Donating Electronics

Preventing waste in the first place is preferable to any waste management option…including recycling. Donating used (but still operating) electronics for reuse extends the lives of valuable products and keeps them out of the waste stream for a longer period of time. Reuse, in addition to being an environmentally preferable alternative, also benefits society. By donating your used electronics, you allow schools, nonprofit organizations, and lower-income families to obtain equipment that they otherwise could not afford. Where Can I Donate or Recycle My Old Computer and Other Electronic Products? Lists organizations with information about donating electronic equipment.
Before donating your computer or other electronics, make sure the equipment is reusable. Donation organizations have limited or in many cases no resources and employees to diagnose and repair hardware. A functional, working system—especially with monitor, wiring, and software licenses—is a lot more useful and requires less upgrading than a nonworking, incomplete computer. Check to see what the donation organization’s minimum computer requirements are (e.g., Pentium processor, Windows 95). Donation organizations might not accept (or might charge a fee for) older, less useful equipment (e.g., 386 processors, dot matrix printers, less than 14 inch color monitors).

As a business, you might be able to take advantage of tax incentives for computer equipment donations. The 21st Century Classrooms Act encourages large companies to donate computer equipment to public and private schools. When donating equipment to a nonprofit organization, inquire about documentation that can be applied toward your income tax return.
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Rewards for recycling – Go Green to Get Green from Digital Tips

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You can also recycle bottles, paper, plastic and tires.

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Call whichever government authority operates your residential Recycling operation and they’ll tell you. Where I live there is a private firm contracting through the city to round up electronics recyclables. There is a minimal fee. In your area there may be drop off points although here the consensus is that having public drop off points for this type of material is like putting up a sign saying “Steal Me.” Theft begets violence and more crime, etc.

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Craigslist
ebay
freecycle.

Or go to your local pawn shop if you do not want to list them on the internet

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Depends on the electronics involved. For instance Sprint has a cellphone recycling program. There are other businesses like Computer Renaissance that will buy some older computer systems. Finally some communities have specific recycling programs for computer equipment as it is considered to be quite toxic.

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This link will allow you to pick a state and get all the recyclers names in your area.

Http://www.eiae.org/

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The copper coils in the motor should make it worth recycling.

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Go to www.earth911.org they can find a drop off location by zip code.

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Pls send second hand shop they will bye back your product and you must bye new product from them i.e. Exchange offer.

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Central Virginia Waste Management Authority’s website has information for your area.
Http://www.cvwma.com/
Kudos to you for recycling and not just throwing them out!

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You have to be logged in as administrator if she has a password on her account you can disable it using the user control options in control panel then log into her account. As long as you are the administrator and she only has limited user control. However if she is the administrator and you are not give this a read http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?content=TRINITY_RESCUE_KIT____CPR_FOR_YOUR_COMPUTER&front_id=12&lang=en&locale=en this will allow you to remove her password

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If you have Vista:

1. Right click the Vista Desktop
2. Click on Personalize
3. Select: ‘Change desktop icons’
4. At the Desktop Icon Settings, untick the box next to: ‘Recycle Bin’.

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Right click your desktop, then go to personalize. And at the top left under the word “TASKS” click on “CHANGE DESKTOP ITEMS” check the recycle bin box, then hit apply. And your done 😀

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There are utility programs that will allow you to use your GMail account as a disk drive:

Here is one such:
http://www.filehippo.com/download_gmail_drive/7627/

There are many websites you can upload your files to, allowing many GBs of storage space, some are even free.

Regards,
TaZ

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First, delete it out of the recycle bin. This will not delete the actual info, which could still be brought back. If you Defrag the machine after you delete the information, anything left will be essentially destroyed. What would be left would be small pieces and parts, completely out of context…and it would not be retrievable without expensive, sophisticated software.

Of course, if you have the installation disks, I’d do a low level format. Get Dban (free, www.dban.org) and boot to it. It will write over everything, making it impossible to get anything back…ever. After that, you’ll have to reinstall any programs and drivers.

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Wow, you don’t press the Delete button in your keyboard?

Anyway, http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Show-or-hide-the-Recycle-Bin

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DiskGetor Data Recovery Free is free hard drive recovery tool, use the free disk recovery software can free recover deleted ( word, excel, ppt, video, zip,photo ) files which were erased in Recycle Bin or deleted by shift+del on hard drive , free rescue data (fast speed).
Http://www.diskgetor.com/

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Hi pinky lou, you go to control panal > change desktop icon > select recycle bin icon >click OK.

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Go to ur desktop..
Right click there..
Select properties
then go to desktop tab
click on customize desktop (above OK button)
click restore default
then click ok
and again ok..

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I think the number represents the number of times it can be reused

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Not every college is the same.

At Univ. Of Michigan, I am pretty sure they do not recycle numbers for a very long time. I graduated from there in 2007, but my account is still active there (it is with every student and alumnus), I can log onto computers there, I can swipe my ID in academic buildings to get in, etc.

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Yes they do, say you get your phone discconected for whatever reason and you let your account close then it will get “written off” and the number will be up for grab again….But it is no longer your number…And it is not illegal, the company owns the number unless you port to another company and even then one ever you lose the number it goes back to the original comapny…

Example: you have a sprint number and want to transfer to AT&T then you would port the number to wotk off of AT&T network. And lets say you stop making your payments then once the account is writtin off, the number will go back to Sprint..

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It all has to do with the type of equipment needed to recycle the different types of plastic. Apparently your facility acquired more equipment, which enabled them to recycle more types of plastic, which is good for all of us. And they don’t have the equipment to recycle the lids.

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The number is used to identify the type of resin. You’re right, this number is generally for recycling.
In my sources, I link a nice table from American Chemistry that lists the types and what they are used for.

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It is not unlimited, but there is a large number of available combinations.

The first six digits identify card the issuer. The very last digit is the check digit. So that leaves 9 digits out of 16 for the individual’s account number. Not all of those number are available (00-0000-0000 for example to prevent easy forgery) Subtract the unusable numbers and you get a little under 1 billion numbers.

Most card numbers are 16 digits in length. Others are 13, 14 & 15 digits long which may result in fewer available account numbers.

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60 tp 90 days……it really should be 1 or 2 years….!

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Some recycling systems are only equipped to handle certain types of recyclable waste. The numbers indicate specifics about the constitution of each item and those with the same number are recycled in the same batch. It might be best to consult your local waste management company or their website to learn which numbers they can recycle and which, if any, that they cannot.

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Yeah that’s what they do

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1.preservation of natural resources
2.decreasing the amount of garbage that has to be landfilled.
3.cost minimization

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Home depot has some.

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Curious. Too bad you didn’t ask him instead of us. Just look at the answers you got here.

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Usually the tenants are responsible for their own garbage, but legally I would think the landlord is actually the one responsible, they ultimately own the property. I would be like larger buildings where they specifically spell out these kinds of things in “house rules”, then there is no gray area, they are responsible.

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My opinion, I say sustainable living is one of the major reasons that we should recycle. Trash has a great value to a society as it is a pile of slightly used resources that are just waiting to be transformed back into something useful. The problem, however, is that some “junk” might not be cost efficient to transform into another useful good. But when we say cost efficient, it is important to consider more than just the monetary value behind the item itself. We must consider the environmental impact of not recycling a product. Old Paint, for example, would be an excellent product to recycle (I’m not sure if they can yet) regardless of cost because to place it in a landfill or just tossing it in your back yard junk pile because the garbage man wont take it impacts the local environment in subtle ways. Yes, it might not damage our water supply immediately but over a long time these harmful chemicals will leech into the ground, contaminating water, animal habitat, vegetation, etc… So the difficulty found in recycling paint might be the impetus to find an innovative way to make pollution free or an environmentally friendly paint. These are just the ramblings of one man though. My advice is to take a look at wikipedia.org and look at the sources cited or use Google Scholar and see what professional literature is available for the topic. Best of luck!

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Interesting question, a star for you!! I agree with the first guy!

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I am originally from Germany, and my dad who is in Germany works for a recycling firm.
One fact that you may not know is that there are no longer landfills in Germany, all trash either has to be recycled or is incinerated (heat produced by the incineration is used to produce power). Since incineration is expensive due to the added cost of cleaning the fumes, as much as possible is recycled. Essentially all packaging in Germany (palstic, paper etc is made of recycled plastic or paper (only a small amount of new plastic/paper may be added to increase quality.
Firms like the one my dad work for collect a broad range of trash and recyclables and further separate out usable components before selling the isolated usable stuff, like Alluminum to companies that reuse them and burning the rest that can no longer be used. They charge depending on the quality of the waste, e.g. How much recyclable material, how well is ot already separate, so it is in the interest of the waste producer to separate the waste as much as possible.
The exact regulations and types of trash that is separates is are different in different counties/Landkreise. Wher my parent live, they have 4 types of household trash: clean glass, metal cans etc, clean palstic, paper etc (yes that means you have to wash out your yoghurt containers before disposing of them), compost and all other waste. Collection of the first 3 is free, but they pay a lot for the last category, thus, it is in the best interst of the people there to separate their trash otherwise they will pay a lot for trash collection.
There are also tax incentives for companies to use recyclable material wherever possible, the higher the content of new material in your product, the higher the taxes.
There are also laws agains shipping waste into other countries to get rid of it the easy way, only separated recyclable material may be sold to other countries. As far as I know the only waste that is shipped out and can’t be recycled is spent radioactive material from nuclear powerplant that are stored in old salt mines in France.

The German system may be a little excessive but it shows how much trash really can be recycled if one makes the effort.

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I tip everyone during the holidays. I tip the mail man,the garbage man,the man who puts gas in my car, etc.

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It costs $400/ton for recycling and $600/ton for garbage. But that’s only if the recycling doesn’t need to be processed and sorted through which it usually does; it costs a lot more if they need to process it and so that’s why a lot of recycling is processed like garbage, as in, it’s thrown out…

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When God Created you, and all mankind, in His Image,
He created a Purely Spiritual Being. He did not give man the
power to override his Perfect Creation. So the truth is that
we are still as God Created us – Perfect Spiritual Beings.

Some of us thought it would be fun to separate from God
and have a life of our own. We could not separate. But we could make up
a dream world wherein we would feel separated from God.

The physical world you speak of is the dream world man made.
We are stuck in the dream until we realize our true estate
and awaken again to the awareness of God.

To do that awakening, Jesus came as our way shower
and taught that we need to see God in our fellow man
because we are One.

Everything God Created is Perfect, everlasting and truly wonderful.
Our dream denies that but nothing God created ever dies.
Only that which is part of man’s dream is perishable.

There is no sin, there is no evil – except in the dream man made up.

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Oxaloacetate (or oxaloacetic acid)

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Recycling water takes an effort it is costly.
Depending on what you use to pollution the water it can be veryvery hard to get the stuff out of the water again.

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Ribulose Bisphosphate (RuBP) is your answer.
The input molecules are carbon dioxide,ATP, and NADPH. The output molecules are sugar, ADP,NADP+,and inorganic phosphate (Pi). The recycled molecule is ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP).
Https://wikispaces.psu.edu/display/110Master/Energy+V+-+Photosynthesis+(Calvin+Cycle)

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I like: “And I hope the sun shines,
and it’s a beautiful day
and something reminds you,
you wish you had stayed,
you can plan for a change in weather and time,
but I never planned on you changing your mind”

I also like: “I watch you fly around the world,
and I hope you don’t save some other girl
Don’t forget, don’t forget about me.

I’m far away but I never let you go.
I’m love struck and staring out my window.
Don’t forget, don’t forget about me.”

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You have to think laterally to the question and mind map all your available ideas. Why not look at sequential images of life in your school day, morning to night, cycles of time periods more accessible to you. Multiple exposure photography is a good starting point or layering images in Photoshop to create a montage starting point for your art.

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Recycling to reduce trash is an important concern since, as the world’s population grows, land for living and food production become more important. That same might be said for land use practices involving golf courses and cemeteries but that’s a path i’ll avoid here.

The real problem with your scenario is that the benefit of manufacturing new products from recycling is a large user of water and electricity and water resources are perhaps the largest environmental concern we face – outside the developed nations – and redundant electrical generation produces a lot of CO2 that contributes to climate change.

The problem isn’t the recycling, it’s all the shipping you describe since the burning of fuels to ship across the pacific and back would easily outweigh the benefits of reduced resource need for manufacturing the recycled products.

Concerning china, as another answer points out, environmental laws are still virtually non-existent but that may be turning as they face population growth and their emergence from an undeveloped to a developed country where increased quality of life is supposed to be a large part of growth and development.

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Death will always happen because life is constantly renewing itself.

[…personally I say that God could just deal with it by using his power to create a new cycle whenever the hell he wants. I mean, he’s God. He does what he wants, when he wants to. Lol]

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Try one of these – all just under a minute long and well-known easy listening piano pieces by the famous composer Robert Schumann:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2h07NNbOCiQ&

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I’d imagine it would be OK for house plants. Note that this water will have a very high concentration of contaminants, some of them potentially harmful (such as heavy metals). I wouldn’t eat any plant that was watered with it.

And obviously if you were using the reverse osmosis to treat saltwater, you can’t use the saltwater on the plants.

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Its NOT.
Well not where i come from anyway, i was born in scotland, the land of unlimited fresh water.
But in some poverty stricken places in asia, africa and south america there is a severe fresh drinking water shortage, so i can understand the statement if referring to or talking about a country in those continents. Sadly millions die because of a lack of fresh water in there parts of the world.
But you are right, all water on earth has been here for billions of years. And keeps getting re-cycled through the oceans evaporating into clouds then falling as fresh rain.
It just depends on were you live and were your from.
No1 in europe can waste water, no1 in america can waste water. We have abundant reservoirs, dams and fresh water lakes. But to process water for us to drink does take a considerable amount of electricirty in the factories, to kill all harmful bacteria and pathogens which may be present in the water, which in turn uses a lot of fossil fuel to produce this electricity. So when we see some1 leaving a tap running you should say – “stop wasting electricity / fossil fuels” instead of saying “stop wasting water”

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What do you think your drinking right now? Your drinking water that has been used by humans, treated and dumped back into the ecosystem. If its dumped into the sea evaporation will pick it up and turn it into clouds, then once the dewpoint is reached it will fall down in convectional or orgraphic rainfall and reach back to the sea form runoff, or enter an aquifer, etc. So you see all water is recycled. So yes i would drink recycled waste water.

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We need to conserve the remaining fresh water. Even though water can be treated and distilled, most people have an aversion to drinking recycled water from sewers. Our population is growing at such a rate that we are outstripping the water cycle. Farmers aren’t using recycled water for irrigation. They are using water from the Ogallala aquifer, which is our biggest source of clean freshwater. The level in the aquifer is dropping rapidly.
The world population is 6,674,067,889 as of 05:48 GMT (EST+5) Jun 14, 2008. U.S. Population has grown by 1.2% per year over the last 50 years. This “low” growth rate means it has taken only 58 years for our population to double. The world population is projected to grow from 6 billion in 1999 to 9 billion by 2042, an increase of 50 percent that will require 43 years.

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When we drink water, we pee, and then our urine goes out
to the ocean and then water evaporated and it rains and
go down the river… And we drink it.

Water is naturally recycled.

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Yes but rest assured, the feces and urine that once was in your drinking water came from another neighborhood, so at least you are not drinking your own ,…stuff, what ? You never saw those little floaters in there?

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Here in Iowa, we have a 5 cent can and bottle redemption which, in respect for the redemption center workers, we are encouraged to bring them in rinsed and clean. So the question is, what’s more environmentally friendly? Do we use our city water (that we pay good money for every month) to help the redemption centers or recycling centers stay clean and free of insects and vermin so they can continue to recycle aluminum and plastic or do we try to save our endangered water supply? Both could be a blessedly moot point if we all stop drinking pop! I haven’t for years and I don’t miss it at all. It’s not good for you in any flavor, sweetness or color according to may studies. It’s even being looked at as the basic source of our country’s obesity problem, diet pop included! How’s that for an option everyone? Drink a glass of water from your tap and treat your body to this thirst quenching, easily digestible resource. No cans or bottles needed!

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– Tankless water heaters – you don’t waste energy keeping the tank warm, and they even get you a tax credit.

– Combine errands into one big run and don’t idle when you are driving

-If your power company has the option, buy a portion of your electricity in renewable energy. My power company already sold out of its allocation of wind power, but I’m on a waiting list for it.

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Top Price Recycling pays the best

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2600 S 7th Ave., Phoenix

Good luck.

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I was going to a place where I used to live, and the guy was pocketing HALF of what he was weighing. We were getting gypped, and I knew it. He finally got fired. I would go to a different recycling center this time, or gradually put the cans in the machine at the grocery store entrances.

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About US$0.16 to 0.18 per kg.

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You have to search for each one by commodity and by geographic region. Here’s some links. I have some other links but they’re hard to get. The best thing to do is to actually make the phone calls.

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When an economy falters the demand for almost all products goes down. Newspaper is recycled into new paper, insulation, packaging materials. When demand for these things drops, so does the demand for the raw materials. When demand drops, so does the price.

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Who pays for shipping?

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Without ever having sold metals in the markets in those areas, its hard for me to give you names. The only advice i can really give is to call places and ask for amounts. Pay attention to the places in the industrial parts of town, particularly near rail lines. The accessibility of these businesses to these methods of moving their materials en mass at lower costs allows them to offer you, the seller higher prices and yet meet their bottom line.

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Around here, we get the same price all year round. No seasonal fluctuations.

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It varies from state to state county to county. My cousin takes my cans down to SC and I get .30 to .40 per pound. I pick up the cans from beside the road and I also buy sodas in the can that way I can get some of my money back.