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The sad fact of the matter is that recycling usually does not help the environment.

The exception: metals. The worst offender: paper.

In most cases, recycling a product consumes more energy and causes more side effects from re-manufacturing than simply burying the old and producing a new product. This is especially true of paper. In the US, and most first world countries, paper is produced exclusively from replanted trees. No new deforestation occurs. It isn’t the cleanest process, but initial production can’t even come close to the toxicity of recycling the paper. Plastic recycling creates toxic byproducts, and consumes more energy then simply creating a new product.

The other thing that has to be considered is landfill. There is a huge amount of FUD surrounding them. The fact is we are not running out of space (not even close), and modern landfills have not only incredible environmental safety records and protections, they also are used to create clean energy from the byproducts of decomposition. Most of the confusion stems from a very poorly worded report from a single person at the EPA about twenty years ago.

Metals on the other hand, are impact neutral when it comes to recycling, and it is much cheaper to recycle than to mine. The only real side effect that metal recycling creates is the black market in copper, people are stealing from constructions sites and even occupied houses to scrap the copper from AC, electrical, and plumbing systems. This is more of a side effect of the price of copper than recycling as a whole. Mining can have a large local environmental impact depending on the type of mine.

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No.

Recycling has become a politically correct issue, but the fact is then when materials are recycled:

1. The materials do not take up valuable space in a land fill

2. The materials generally are worth money

3. Recycling helps keep the cost or raw materials down because it is much less expensive to recycle than manufacture new materials, whether it is steel, wood, plastic, or other materials.

Why it can become BS, is that collecting recyclables in domestic addresses has become big business and it is manipulated by individuals and politicians for political and financial gains.

Some think that since many municipalities have multiple materials dumped into the same container going down the road, there are very efficient sorters (machinery) that separate the materials into specific categories.

Glass is one of the materials that is just about more work to recycle than what the value of the cullet is, but that keeps thousands of tone per week from being dumped into a land fill somewhere.

Hope this helps add to the equation.

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There’s no general reason why cans can’t be smashed before recycling. In fact, one of the first things that are done to them is… Smashing!
However, there may be a reigonal reason for not doing so. Requiring residents to smash their cans may cause injury (not everyone is young and vigorous and can smash one on their head). If smashed in vigour, the few remaining drops are made easier to leak out a hole since they don’t have pass through a lip to escape.
Some recycling plants use human quality control for sorting and its easier to recognize and not be hurt by an unsmashed can.

Hope this helps!

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First of all I recycle and I don’t have a garage, that’s just an excuse. I recycle glass, cans, paper, card and plastics. It’s easy, first step get the garage cleared out, Freecycle your unwanted things, if you haven’t used it for a year then get rid of it. Recycle any metal or other junk, take the rest to the dump. It doesn’t need your mom to start recycling, you can do it. But if you need her help tell her that you would appreciate the fact that she is helping reduce our effect on the planet. Tell her it may not help her, but it could help you and your children (her grandchildren) if she recycles.

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Well I know that some candy wrappers can be… Like Hershey’s kisses wrappers can be, also,Styrofoam, oil, old car parts, and rubber (tires) can also be recycled but here are some websites

Top Recycling Facts – Things You Must Know

http://earth911.org/
http://www.sustainability.vic.gov.au/www/html/405-what-can-be-recycled-at-kerbside.asp
http://www.bucknell.edu/x4774.xml

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They can be 100% recycled but that does not mean it’s better for the environment. In fact you should not trust any claims when it comes to the environment. Environmentalism is the biggest scam going in history. Don’t you remember the global warming scam that was exposed.

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Since you like to present more than just having a typical video like just presenting facts so why not create a video in which you really demonstrate on how to do the recycle like for example showing in the video what are the things which can be recycled and how to recycle it, what would be the finished product then.

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This question goes back to the basic fact of green living. While it is great that you are recycling. The best thing you can do is to REDUCE unnecessary waste (if you can do what needs to be done or what you want to do without creating a demand for a hard to recycle or even an easy to recycle item to be manufactured) secondly look to REUSE of an item that has already been manufactured (such as a used barrel becoming a rain barrel or some old jeans being used as rags and then maybe processed to become insulation) and lastly RECYCLE it is very important but if you could have gotten by easily enough by doing the first two it shouldn’t get to this last of the 3 R’s.

Your efforts are appreciated and do contribute to doing the right thing but maybe you have seen a way to contribute more if so and it is within the realm of what you are willing to do then. Thank you even more.

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That is NOT a virus! You formatted and reinstalled so any infection that was there, is completely gone.
What you’re seeing is a hidden system file that is part of Windows Recycle Bin.

Open any folder, click on ‘Tool’ tab>’Folder Options’>’View’
Scroll down to ‘Hidden files and folders’

Put a tick/check in the boxes next to:
‘Do not show hidden files and folders’
and ‘Hide protected operating system files (recommended)’
Click ‘OK’?

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Recycler is the noun from recycle. Recycling is:

transitive verb
1 : to pass again through a series of changes or treatments: as
a : to process (as liquid body waste, glass, or cans) in order to regain material for human use
b : recover
c : to reuse or make (a substance) available for reuse for biological activities through natural processes of biochemical degradation or modification
2 : to adapt to a new use : alter
3 : to bring back : reuse
4 : to make ready for reuse

Flash Disinfector – Flash Drive Autorun Malware Remover by sUBs

(when the program tells you to connect usb you connect external hard drive)

(Now you can format the external hard drive if you so wish.)

If you dont wish to format, show hidden files on external hard drive & check whats there. (this is where recycler virus hides)

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When you delete a file in Windows Explorer it’s not only moved to a RECYCLER folder, but it’s moved into a user-specific folder within it. So the files you delete are in the Recycle Bin and they’re kept separately from the files deleted by other users on the same machine.

And when you empty your Recycle Bin You’re only emptying your Recycle Bin. The other users Recycle Bins are not affected.

The appropriate way to truly empty all of them would be to login as each user and empty their Recycle Bins.So you cannot really remove a
recycler as such,but you can remove what is in it.

Your Q lacks detail,but i think this is the info
you are looking for.Hope this helps.

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The way I see it, there are a number of ways and methods to convert garbage and waste products into oil and energy fuels which could be used in poor countries to make better use of garbage/ waste products to become more self sufficient and raise economic standards. As Markey points out, some countries like Egypt, India, Nigeria, etc… Have whole communities that recycle old products into resellable items or earn a living on waste products but they could be even better and cleaner if they had technologies to convert garbage and waste into valuable oil and electrical energy or fuels.
Parts of Lagos Nigeria, China, etc.. Are full of imported plastic or electronic waste products and others which contain harmful toxins and chemicals since their laws are lax on health issues and they have become a dumping ground for illegal toxic wastes or E-wastes from other areas or countries.

Garbage/waste issues….
Http://www.wastelandmovie.com/


http://www.globalpost.com/photo-galleries/planet-pic/5674706/disposable-communities-living-and-working-the-worlds-largest-trash-dumps

Biggest garbage dumps in the world…
Http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/08/0805_biggest_garbage_dumps/1.htm

Plasma gasification process to convert wastes into energy…including toxic wastes

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/11/science/plasma-gasification-raises-hopes-of-clean-energy-from-garbage.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/ff_trashblaster/

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Plastic recycling is the process of recovering scrap or waste plastics and reprocessing the material into useful products, sometimes completely different in form from their original state. For instance, this could mean melting down soft drink bottles and then casting them as plastic chairs and tables. Typically a plastic is not recycled into the same type of plastic, and products made from recycled plastics are often not recyclable.

When compared to other materials like glass and metal materials, plastic polymers require greater processing to be recycled.[citation needed] Plastics have a low entropy of mixing, which is due to the high molecular weight of their large polymer chains. A macromolecule interacts with its environment along its entire length, so its enthalpy of mixing is large compared to that of an organic molecule with a similar structure. Heating alone is not enough to dissolve such a large molecule; because of this, plastics must often be of nearly identical composition in order to mix efficiently.
When different types of plastics are melted together they tend to phase-separate, like oil and water, and set in these layers. The phase boundaries cause structural weakness in the resulting material, meaning that polymer blends are only useful in limited applications.
Another barrier to recycling is the widespread use of dyes, fillers, and other additives in plastics. The polymer is generally too viscous to economically remove fillers, and would be damaged by many of the processes that could cheaply remove the added dyes. Additives are less widely used in beverage containers and plastic bags, allowing them to be recycled more frequently.
The use of biodegradable plastics is increasing. If some of these get mixed in the other plastics for recycling, the reclaimed plastic is not recyclable because the variance in properties and melt temperatures.

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Motor oil and oil filter recycle program

Used automobile oil and oil filters can be recycled if dropped off at bulk tanks available at the Waterloo landfill (Gate 2 – Household Hazardous Waste Depot), the Cambridge waste managment site and at all of the rural transfer stations.

Motor oil:

A maximum of 25 litres of used motor oil per household per month is accepted. Bulk tanks are available for residents to empty their oil into. Please, no five gallon pails. Not accepted in the tanks: anti-freeze, transmission fluid or brake fluid. These items should be dropped off at the household hazardous waste depot.

Oil Filters: a maximum of five used oil filters per household per month can be accepted.

This is a residential program only. Businesses are NOT permitted to use this program.

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By recycling, you are using old products e.g. Paper, to make new paper, and hence eliminating the need to cut down new natural resource i.e. Tree to make the paper…recycling plastic therefore means you are eliminating the need to extract oil from the earth.

The situation is similar with saving energy…a lot of electricity is generated from burning non-renewable resources e.g. Coal…by using less energy, we need to produce less electricity, so less coal is extracted from the earth.

Not sure if you are in the uk or not, have a look at the following site – www.communityecochallenge.com (uk based info and stats) it is for a project i used to work on, which helped people reduce their ecological footprint…it has info on recycling and how it helps the environment, as well as energy saving and the environment.

Hope this helps. It is maybe too simple an explanation for what you require, but i teach this stuff to community groups and children, and usually the straightforward approach is best!

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Preventing waste accumulation means waste reduction and finding alternate methods of waste recycling and disposition,

You cannot do do a total prevention, otherwise it would not be called waste anymore. Some examples are:

Recycling used oil – waste product from cars and trucks oil changes etc.
Recycling wood chips from wood saw mills,
Recycling sugar cane waste from sugar mills
Recycling agricultural crop waste into animal feed or composting for fertilizers
Recycling building materials or broken asphalt etc. Into new roadbeds or earth filling materials for new buildings or grounds etc.
Recycling waste water from cities or villages after proper treatment and filtration to irrigation canals,

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Glass & metal food & beverage containers
Newspaper
White office paper
Corrugated cardboard
Scrap metal
Waste oil
Lead acid storage batteries
Ni-Cd rechargeable batteries
Leaves (must be composted)

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I think people have to retrain their minds to make the extra effort it takes to dispose of properly. I don’t think one can quickly do this at home-should be taken to an autoparts store that recycles.

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Used oil is a great source of fuel and can be recycled. Take it to a local business that burns that used oil onsite as fuel for a furnace or boiler.

One of the fascinating things about used oil is that it has the same amount of energy content as it did before it was used, which makes it a great—and cheap!—fuel. Businesses that generate this oil can safely recycle it onsite in the most environmentally friendly manner available with a waste oil furnace or boiler. These complete heating systems provide safe fuel management, EPA-approved used oil disposal and free heat. Emissions are incredibly low and the byproduct is a fine ash that can be thrown away. As if eliminating a heating bill weren’t enough.

For more than 25 years, waste oil heating systems have provided onsite recycling of used oil for companies such as garages, lube shops, car dealerships and heavy equipment dealers. Any other method of disposal requires transportation and processing with mean unnecessary risk to these businesses producing the used oil onsite, exposing them to what could be very high costs if that used oil is spilled or otherwise improperly disposed of in transit. Burning waste oil as fuel for heat, on the other hand, allows these businesses to turn this liability into an asset and is a simple, yet far-reaching, way to “go green.” And, recycling onsite is the cleanest, most efficient manner of disposal for our environment.

Find out more at www.energylogic.com

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Recycling should not be an after thought, it should come to us as naturally as the rising of the sun or the brilliance of an Autumn day. Recycling reduces the stress on our planet. Paper recycling saves our forests and helps reduce the pollution released into the air by our factories. Recycling of our plastics and other solid wastes saves our land and water sources. We can no longer afford to keep dumping materials into our dumps knowing that nature cannot possibly break them down. Chemicals leeching from these solids pollute our soils and water supply leading to a backlash of human health problems. We need to recycle our waste oils, converting them into reusable fuels as Mother Nature does not have an inexhaustible supply to continue feeding our habit.

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The plastic IS complicated, even for avid recyclers so don’t worry. The plastics that are accepted is different depending on where you live, and what your local agency collects. I’m guessing they have a website that tells you all about what they do and do not take.
I live in San Francisco. Just to give you a general idea, here are the rules here:
Plastics number 2, 4, 5, and 6 are accepted, and bottles of any number are accepted. However, the caps to plastic water and soda bottles are not recyclable, and unfortunately that is true no matter where you are. (Booo!)
And, if you have something like CD jewel cases, you should absolutely donate them. Reuse and reduce are the two most important rules, recycle is next! So if you’ve got anything that can reuse, I would either donate it to an agency like Goodwill, or Freecycle it! (Not familar with Freecycle? It’s awesome!! Check out http://www.freecycle.org/)
Hope that helps! 🙂

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Plastic grocery bags Type 2 (high-density polyethylene film – HDPE) and Type 4 (low density or linear-low density polyethylene film – LDPE/LLDPE) can be recycled at your local supermarket and other locations. Once the bags are recycled, they are made into lumber, trashcan liners or plastic bags.

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Yes they are recycled. I called my thrown-away number once after I got my new number for my cell and someone picked up… Lol

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Wikipedia has a great page on recycling codes (see below). Code 3 is Polyvinyl Chloride and is recycled to become pipe, fencing, and non-food bottles. All the other codes and what they are recycled into are listed too.

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Yes, my family recycles as much as our town and state will let us. (You know how you can only recycle certain numbers.)

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I believe they do. My son kept getiing calls to the same person, not him, after getting his phone. I eventually called andd had the number again and have had no issues…

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In most cases, cell phone numbers stay with who ever is using the number as long as the bill/service is paid.

The company assigns a number when service is activated.

As long as the bill gets paid, the number remains available for use. If someone dies, and the bill is paid, unless someone notifies the company that the phone needs to be disconnected, or the bill, is not paid, then the phone stays active.

If the bill is unpaid, then of course, the service will eventually be canceled. Once that happens, if the number is not reactivated within a certain time by the person who had it, or someone taking over responsibility for it, then it goes into a recycle list and will eventually be reassigned to someone else.

It is actually not that uncommon for family members to keep cell phones active after a user has died to keep voice mail recordings and things, or sometimes they are just sentimental about the number.

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Ok, so here’s the deal. Each different number is a different kind of plastic, as follows:

1: Polyethylene (PET or PETE)
2: High-Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
3: Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC)
4: Low-Density Polyethylene (LDPE)
5: Polypropylene (PP)
6: Polystyrene (PS)
7: Other plastics (e.g. PC for polycarbonate)

In some places, you can recycle all numbers of plastic, in others only certain numbers, and in still others only certain shapes of certain numbers. I go to college in a place in which all plastics #1-7 can be recycled only if they are bottle-shaped (so if you stack them one on top of the other, they will not nest), but back home we only recycle 1-3.

The reasons behind not recycling all numbers are actually very complex. Sometimes, small communities simply do not have the proper facilities to deal with all different kinds of plastic. Other times, large plastics companies purchase the recycled materials and only can use certain types of plastic because that is all that they have market demand for.

The reason that plastics have to be separated by composition has to do with the chemistry of polymer chains- if you mix milk jugs (2) and Coca-Cola bottles (1) and then melt them together, the resulting plastic is very weak and tends to tear along the boundaries between the two different kinds of plastic.

If you are willing to put in the effort, see if there are any places near you where you can bring numbers other than 1 and 2. It might be closer than you think! Alternatively, contact your recycling company to see if they are able to handle other numbers, or even talk to your municipal council to see if they can improve the equipment at the local recycling facility using federal grants.

Good luck, and hope that helped =]

EDIT: No, Grape, it does not really a measure of how hard the plastics are. While it is true that different kinds of plastics have different hardnesses, that is not the meaning of the numbers.

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You may use “My Best Recycling Idea” and put it to use in the classroom and home.

Besides recycling the plastic containers, you can improve your work or home environments by bringing live potted plants indoors.

Major items needed:

One empty plastic gallon container. Tree Top Apple Juice is preferred, or equal in shape.

One empty plastic ½ gallon container. Langers All Pomergranate Juice is preferred or equal.

Directions: Lay the plastic gallon container on its side so the front label is facing up. Place the empty plastic half gallon container on the label and with a sharpie pen outline the bottom on the Tree Top label and with a sharp knife carefully cut the outline. Insert the half gallon into the hole until it rest on the back label of the gallon container. Then mark and cut approximately one inch above the cut on the ½ gallon to complete your planter container. Remove and drill several ¼ inch holes on the bottom of the ½ gallon cut container for drainage.

Fill the cut ½ gallon planter with one inch of gravel before putting in good potting mix soil and live growing plant. If you make two or more you can pour the water back and forth and not waste the water with the nutrients.

Go to NASA’s Clean Air Plant Study for the top ten plants that cleans the indoor air better than the rest.

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Tin cans such as soup cans and etc can be recycled at cash value . Places listed under scrapmetal (in the phone book) should be able to accomidate your locality needs and they are very helpfull in answering questions

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You pay a 10c deposit when you purchase the can (in MI) and when you can turn them in for 10c a piece, basically just getting your deposit back, a few states let you do that but MI is the only one that gives you 10c, the rest of the states only give you 5

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In michigan we get 10 cents for bottle refund. I believe that they put deposit on unhealthy drinks.

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You get paid by weight, not by can, if you are returning them to a recycling center. Some states have a deposit law, like Michigan, you can get $.10 a can. A few years ago, I took a full 30 gallon trash bag with all the cans compressed down, to a recycling center, and got $5.

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It really depends on where you live. Where I live you cannot get money for recycling, and unfortunately there is no pick up service. We have to gather and deliver all our recyclables.
You should look into your local salvage yards and recycle centers. Just call them and they can give you the price per pound if they are buyers.

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Well lets c The food packaging goal is to recycle paper cups and foodservice packaging into valuable, high-quality materials. Every year, 4.1 million tons of paper, prepared food packaging is landfilled in the United States. The collection and recycling of this material would decrease greenhouse gas emissions by ~15 million mtCO2e, equivalent to removing 3 million passenger vehicles from the road.

Foodservice Recycling Pilot Held at Seven Starbucks Stores in Manhattan:
Results Indicate that with Appropriate Signage and Messaging, 90% Purity is a Realistic Target

Dec. 2009 – An eight week pilot was conducted at seven Starbucks stores in Manhattan in the Fall of 2009. For the pilot, Western Michigan University’s Coating and Recycling Pilot Plants tested the recyclability of a
representative sample of the cups and sleeved used in Starbucks stores and found that they offer
equivalent recyclability and repulpability as old corrugated cardboard using the Fibre Box
Association’s Wax Alternative Protocol. The material collected from the store had a purity level greater than 80% was acheived and strategies for achieving a 90% purity identified. Learn more.
Starbucks Announces Participation in Global Green Recycling Pilot at June CoRR Meeting

June 2009 – Global Green’s Coalition for Resource Recovery, convened 80 participants for a “value chain caucus” aimed at diverting prepared food packaging from the nation’s landfills. The Manhattan meeting followed a Recyclable Cup Summit arranged by Starbucks at their Seattle headquarters in May. Starbucks’ Jim Hanna announced that a first trial will ask customers to assist by pre-sorting their cups. Learn more.
Global Green USA and Western Michigan University Release
White Paper on Recycling Paper Food Packaging with Corrugated Cardboard

May 2009 – Global Green USA and Western Michigan University release a
white paper, entitled Recycling Paper Food Packaging with Corrugated Cardboard: A Proposal for a New Recyclability and Repulpability Protocol and Preliminary Test Results for Fiber-Based Hot Cups. The paper proposes that the Fibre Box Association’s Voluntary Standard for Repulping and Recycling Corrugated Fiberboard Treated to Improves its Performance in the Presence of Water and Water Vapor could be modified to pre-screen foodservice packaging for its recycling along with corrugated at containerboard mills. The paper also contains results from bench top testing of hot cups. Learn more.
Global Green Presents Foodservice Packaging Recycling Concept to Western Michigan University and Foodservice Packaging Institute

Oct. 2008 – Global Green present concept for recycling foodservice paper packaging along with old corrugated cardboard. Original presentation can be downloaded here.
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The University of Michigan often donates used computers to various charitable organizations in your region.

Check with Goodwill and (if someone in your family is a veteran)Local Veteran Organizations.

Lastly, the group “Freecycle.org,” is dedicated to reducing the human footprint on the environment through the recycling of usable items by giving them away.

Give them a look at “http://www.freecycle.org” select your state and city or county, join the group and if what you need isn’t posted, simply post a “wanted ad.”

The best part is that it’s all free!

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Depends where you at, in some states you can bring them to almost any grocery store and actually get money for them; states like Michigan, New York and Delaware do this because when you buy a bottle you’re putting a deposit down on them. Most areas have a recycling plant or recycling service, where they pick any recyclables outside your house. When I recycle bottles and cans I just go to the local dump and they have certain bins to put them in to be recycled

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Many cans and bottles will have a list printed on the container. There are a long list of states that refund $0.05, and then there’s Michigan, which refunds $0.10.

There’s a good Seinfeld episode that revolves around this opportunity for arbitrage.

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I make all kinds of dolls, and doll clothes from recycled clothes, and materials found in thrift stores and garage sales. Stuffing for my dolls comes from destroyed stuffed toys and pillows. I take lace and trim off clothes to re-use on doll clothes. Some baby clothes can easily be converted into dolls. Old crocheted or knitted afghans when unraveled becomes kinky, curly doll hair, or the fake fur animal toys I took the stuffing from can also become doll hair. Remove buttons for eyes. You can find bags upon bags of embroidery thread and needles and felt and notions, all for practically nothing.
I have a store on etsy and those dolls I make, sell for 50-70 each. It’s a very rewarding hobby. If you are like me and just love the act of creating, try your hand at this. You can make your own patterns, which is what I do, or there are many books and kits out there to get you started.
You can also quilt. The patterns and styles for quilting are endless. Baby and children quilts sell really well and don’t take a year to make. You can use graph paper to draw your idea out. Cut these pieces out and then add a seam allowance. I usually cut my pattern pieces out of felt because it lasts pretty much forever and it’s easier to work with than paper or cardboard.
I hope this info helps. Have fun.

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Origami is good. It is inexpensive-use junk mail (there is a great book for this now) or just find instructions online! The folding projects will spark your creative imagination.
Card Making is good, again with paper supplies, scissors, craft glue as complicate as you make it.
I think ANY craft with recycled materials is good! I have seen sweaters knit from twine that are amazing!
Tin crafting (luminarias, and lanterns) can be fun!
You could use your computer to create word art, like calligraphy samplers and so on…Keep looking around and I am sure you will find something!
Good Luck!

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I am teaching an Enrichment Class at my son’s school called Funcycle. We make crafts using items that would normally be thrown away and add to landfills. Sounds like you are talking about the hard plastic lids like on jars of peanut butter. One of the crafts I am doing in my class is a photo ornament with these lids. Clean the lid. Cut a photo into a circle just smaller than the lid. Glue the photo inside the lid. Adhesive photo squares work good for this. Glue ribbon around the outside rim for decoration. Then attach a narrow ribbon for hanging. You can do that by gluing it to the outside (back) of the lid or drill two small holes and loop it through. Also, instead of a photo you could use a child’s drawing or artwork. Makes a great gift for Mother’s Day or a grandparent.

My kids were using these type of lids for bowls when eating snacks and candy. But I quit doing that because of issues with food touching plastic (chemicals in plastic).

Kelly

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There are all kinds of of ideas on this website. I went through some and they look pretty easy to do so you should be able to get one of these done by Thursday.

Http://www.craftbits.com/recycled-crafts

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Http://www.instructables.com/
I went here and typed in soda-tab on search.
Cool stuff
I do know of recycling tricks but not with the tabs.
For other recycling tips try the site below and see some of the crafts I have done Pressing flowers .

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Make small pillows out of old clothes or material and stuff with cotton and lavender to make cool air fresheners for wardrobes and draws. They get rid of the dusty smell that wardrobes often gain for a few months, after they loose their scent replace the lavender or make new ones.

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Make beads from magazine pages and junk mail. Some people use them to make their own jewelry, others sell them. There are several videos on ‘youtube’ that show how.
Http://youtube.com/results?search_query=paper+beads&search_type=
Examples at:
http://www.junkmailgems.com/beads.html
I think ‘junk mail gems’ beads are SO cool! Hope this works for you.

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Renata (femanine) or Renatus (mascualine) mean reborn.

Renata World.

Renata House

Renata Recycling and Craft.

Renatus Craft and Recyling

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We moved overseas when my son was four, then back to the US when he was six, and again overseas when he was eight. Hands down, his all time favorite recycling craft has been turning big boxes into houses, forts, or even vehicles (my mom came on the first move, and made a delivery van out of a furniture box — she’s a very creative gramma).

My son is ten now, and he still has a giant box fort in his bedroom — he can’t bear to part with it, even though it’s starting to topple. I should point out that he has a very nice castle tent stashed away in his closet. No contest. : )

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Read this article:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080821213606.htm

With the cost of storage and control of the waste it may be cost effective to recycle.

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Yes a lot are a waste. I have seen people go great lengths to sort out plastic and glass only to see the bin get thrown in with the rest of the trash. I am a big fan of recycling metals. At the very least the trash needs to be run by a magnet to take the steel out.

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The City of Brooklyn Park and the “Hennepin Recycling Group” cities of Crystal, New Hope and Brooklyn Center have entered into a joint powers agreement for administration of the recycling and waste materials management programs for all four cities.
It is the responsibility of each municipality to ensure that the public health and welfare of the community is maintained. By local ordinance and State law, every household, agency, business and facility must have, at a minimum, weekly collection of garbage and refuse from their premises, or provide the city with verifiable proof of an alternative legal disposal practice or waste management program, which must be approved by the city. It is illegal for any individual, company or organization to place garbage or refuse in or on any public or private property without the expressed consent of the public agency or property owner. Proof of such action, known as “illegal dumping”, can result in prosecution and fines.

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India generates approximately 0.1 million tonnes of municipal solid waste everyday, or about 36.5 million tonnes annually! Of this waste, 40% is just paper. In other words, we produce 14.6 million tonnes of waste paper every year!

Waste paper is not just thrown away or used only for wrapping your purchases at the local kirana shop. Globally, recycling of paper is a huge business. There are global exchanges that deal in waste paper and many countries mandate the recycling of paper.

Machines needed for
making recycled paper
Pulping Machine
Multi-stage Washer
Headbox
Felt
Paper Machine
Dryer
Currently, the recovery of waste paper in India is low at 26% compared to say Germany at 80%, Thailand at 45% and China at 38%, according to the Indian Agro & Recycled Paper Mills Association (IARPMA) estimates. Here, it is pertinent to note that recovery means collecting back for reuse, while recycling means producing paper out of recovered waste paper. This means that out of our consumption of 8.3 million tonnes of paper, only about 2 million tonnes is recovered for reuse. Obviously, there are significant opportunities hidden in paper.

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Use resuseble bags will be better than to recycling plastic waste.

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I’ve got 3 different bins, but none of those bins take glass or plastic. I’ve got a mountain of glass bottles and jars and another mountain of plastic bottles that I have to take to the recycling centre.
I’m paying more for my council tax, yet I’m having to do the work that the binmen used to do?! I don’t understand it.

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1. The hazardous waste could go back into the environment.
(a)Yes,because since they created the waste they have the responsibility of ensuring that the waste is disposed of properly.
(b)The way that you can ensure that the waste is managed properly is by storing the waste in a facility under the ground made of a special metal that cannot be disintegrated or dissolved by the waste. It will be there for thousands of years but it is controlled in the facility.
(c) No, because the waste can come out of the storage facility and harm people. I would put it in a barren place where nothing particularly lives.

The Expert answers:

Check out DEFRA’s website:

Info on food wastes

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/waste/topics/kitchen.htm

Statistics on UK Waste:

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/waste/index.htm

Household waste recycling, by material: 1997/98-2006/07 England

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/statistics/waste/kf/wrkf15.htm

The Expert answers:

In todays society we need to recycle all of the elements of the universe , all gold /silver/ copper / nickel /platinum/ as were at a shortage and landfills are overcrowded. Space is of the essence.

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We are suppose to be taking care of this planet, not trying to destroy it.*

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R-e-c-y-c-l-e recyle!
C-o-n-s-e-r-v-e conserve!
Don’t pollute the rivers, skys or seas or else you are going to get…
What you deserveeeeeeee

I stole that from Rocko’s Modern Life. Opps.

The Expert answers:

What about phoning your council! THERES MORE QUESTIONS HERE ON RECYCLING THEN GW!

The Expert answers:

Alright…this is one site:
http://www.recyclenow.com/

but you do realise that wikipedia is the best place for anything¬!!!
Good luck!xx

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Eco mail

Environews

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I think the greatest advantage to the Earth is that there will be less digging in the ground, and in the case of strip mining there is less of a chance of soil erosion from the removal of trees and ground cover which results in mud slides, loss of top soil, water pollution from the machinery and waste material from the mining.

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Recycling is good because it can be reused and produce less waste and plastic is very harmful to our planet, so recycling is one of the ways we can help and protect the earth from becoming a waste land. 😉

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Recycling is the collection of used materials that would otherwise be waste to be broken down and remade into new products. Similarly, reuse is collecting waste such as food and drink containers to be cleaned, refilled and resold. Proponents of recycling say that it prevents waste and reduces the consumption of new raw materials. Commonly recycled materials include glass, paper, aluminum, asphalt, and steel. These materials can be derived either from pre-consumer waste (materials used in manufacturing) or post-consumer waste (materials discarded by the consumer).Many manufactured products are not readily biodegradable and take up space in landfills or must be incinerated. Recycling is an alternative to this. In fact, now there are machines that can recycle waste into energy sources and water. In theory, recycling would allow a continuing reuse of materials for the same purpose. In practice, recycling most often extends the useful life of a material, but in a less-versatile form. For example, when paper is recycled, the fibers shorten, making it less useful for high grade papers. Other materials can suffer from contamination, making them unsuitable for food packaging.

Of the 24 OECD-countries where figures were available, only 16% of household waste was recycled in 2002.

US issues
A neighbourhood recycling station in Oxford, England.
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A neighbourhood recycling station in Oxford, England.

State support for recycling may be more expensive than alternatives such as landfill; recycling efforts in New York City in the USA cost $57 million per year.1 Environmentalists argue that the benefits to society from recycling compensate for any difference in cost.

A number of U.S. States, such as California, Hawaii, Oregon, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, Massachusetts, Iowa, Michigan and New York have passed laws that establish deposits or refund values on beverage containers in order to promote recycling. Most are five cents per can or bottle. Michigan’s deposit is 10 cents.

Some cities, such as New York and Seattle, have even created laws that enforce fines upon citizens who throw away certain recyclable materials.
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Reuse
The 600ml brown bottle are the “standard beer reused bottle” in Brazil.
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The 600ml brown bottle are the “standard beer reused bottle” in Brazil.

One form of recycling is the reuse of goods, especially bottles. Reuse is distinguished from most forms of recycling, where the good is reduced to a raw material and used in the making of a new good (example: crushing of bottles to make glass for new bottles). Refillable bottles are used extensively in many European countries; for example in Denmark, 98% of bottles are refillable, and 98% of those are returned by consumers. [1] These systems are typically supported by deposit laws and other regulations.

In some developing nations like India and Pakistan, the cost of new bottles often forces manufacturers to collect and refill old glass bottles for selling cola and other drinks. India and Pakistan also have a way of reusing old newspapers: “Kabadiwalas” buy these from the readers for scrap value and reuse them in packaging or in recycling plants. These scrap intermediaries also help in disposing other articles and metals from the consumers and is a lucrative business for the resellers. [citation needed]

In the former East Germany, organic household waste was collected and used as fodder for pigs. This integrated system was made possible by the state’s control of agriculture; the complexities of continuing it in a market economy after German reunification meant the system had to be discontinued. Organic household waste is still collected separately in some towns in Germany, and may be used for fertilizer or landfilled in more sensitive locations where other waste cannot be.

In North America, organic household waste, especially yard waste such as leaves on a seasonal basis, is often collected and heaped up to form compost.
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History
Recycling and rubbish bin in a German railway station.
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Recycling and rubbish bin in a German railway station.

Recycling is generally at its peak during wartime or energy shortages. Massive government promotion campaigns were carried out in World War II in every country involved in the war, urging citizens to conserve metals and fiber. These resource conservation programs established during the war were continued in some natural resource-poor countries, such as Japan, after the war ended.

In the USA, the next big investment in recycling occurred in the 1970s, due to rises in energy costs (recycling aluminum uses only 5% of the energy required by virgin production; glass, paper and metals have less dramatic but very significant energy savings when recycled feedstock is used). The passage of the Clean Water Act in the USA created strong demand for bleached paper (office paper whose fiber has already been bleached white increased in value as water effluent became more expensive).

On September 17, 1981, the first ever blue box recycling program was launched in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Today, more than 90% of Ontario households have access to recycling programs and annually they divert more than 650,000 tonnes (1 tonne = 2,200 pounds) of secondary resource materials. The “blue box” program has expanded in various forms throughout Canada and to countries around the world such as United Kingdom, France and Australia, serving more than 40 million households in countries around the world. Windsor, Ontario uses a red box for paper and cardboard items only while Ottawa, Ontario uses a black box for this purpose.

In 1987, a barge called the Mobro 4000, containing a little over 3,000 tons of garbage departed from Islip, New York to deposit its load of garbage in Morehead City, North Carolina. However, before it reached its destination, rumors that it contained medical waste caused officials at Morehead City to deny the barge permission to unload its garbage. As a result, the barge traveled down the East coast of the United States searching for a place to unload, eventually being denied in Mexico and Belize. The barge finally returned to Islip, where the trash was incinerated after a brief legal battle. The barge’s journey became a small media event. According the Federal Reserve bank of Boston [2], Kelly Ferguson (editor of a pulp and paper industry newsletter) [3], and conservative columnist John Tierney [4], media coverage of the Mobro 4000 led to the false public perception that American landfills were nearly out of space. They say that this perception led to increased public interest in programs to recycle household goods.
A recycling and rubbish bin in a Berlin public-transport station
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A recycling and rubbish bin in a Berlin public-transport station

Another major event that initiated recycling efforts occurred in 1989 when the city of Berkeley, California, banned the use of polystyrene packaging for keeping McDonald’s hamburgers warm. One effect of this ban was to raise the ire of management at Dow Chemical, the world’s largest manufacturer of Polystyrene, which led to the first major efforts to show that plastics can be recycled. By 1999, there were 1,677 companies in the USA alone involved in the post-consumer plastics recycling business.

The Expert answers:

Recycling is the process of turning used products into new products, in an attempt to reduce wastefulness. There are a number of different benefits and advantages to the process, and it’s important to understand the impact on the environment.

Recycling Reduces Waste :

One of the important advantages of recycling is that it helps reduce the waste that goes into landfills. Landfills are a site for waste disposal. Unfortunately, the amount of space in landfills is limited.

Landfills are currently filling up faster than expected. In 2000, nearly one hundred landfills had to close because they were filled to the brim. In fact, some individuals contend that within the next fifty years or so, the majority of landfills will have reached their full capacity.

The waste in the landfills emits dangerous gases when it begins to rot. This is dangerous to both the environment and to individuals that might live near the landfills. The gases that the rotting trash emits pollute the environment.

Recycling reduces that amount of waste that is going into the landfill. For example, according to Earth 911, recycling one ton of plastic will save almost seven and a half cubic yards in landfill space.

While the rate that landfills are filling up is certainly still a problem, recycling is one way that can help reduce that rate. Additionally, by reducing the amount of waste going into the landfills, recycling helps reduce the amount of pollution the landfills are emitting.

Reduced Need for Products to Be Manufactured :

Another benefit tor recycling is that the process reduces the amount of new materials that have to be manufactured. The process of manufacturing usually results in a lot of pollution. Factories usually use carbon dioxide in their manufacturing process.

Carbon dioxide has both contributed to air pollution, and contributed to global warming. Global warming is the defined as an increase in the average temperature of Earth’s near surface air and oceans. This increase is specifically due to human activity, and the carbon dioxide emitted from the factories is one of the activities that alleviate the problem of global warming.

Recycling reduces the need for more and more products to be manufactured.

Recycling Saves Rainforests and Resources :

Currently, the rainforests on the Earth are disappearing. While rainforests at one point covered approximately 14% of the Earth’s surface, Rain Tree.com reports that they now only cover approximately 6% of the Earth’s surface.

There are a number of reasons why rainforests are destroyed. Governments frequently chop down the rainforests to gain profit from the timber in the forests. There are a lot of resources throughout the rainforests that are used to make products such as the rubber in shoes.

Regardless of the reason, the facts are that :

Every second approximately an acre and a half of the rainforests is chopped down.
The rainforests are extremely diverse, and the destruction of them means that the world is losing thousands of unique species, and plant life. For example, more than 50% of the species of plants, animals, and insects on the planet live in the rainforest.
The rainforest helps reduce some of the air pollution that is caused by human activity by recycling carbon dioxide into oxygen. The Amazon Rainforest alone is responsible for approximately 20% of the Earth’s oxygen.
Recycling reduces the need for the creation of new products from the rainforest, and the timber from the trees. Recycling newspapers, cardboard, and other types of paper reduces the need for more trees to be cut down to produce new paper.

The Expert answers:

Well i live in illinios and the price here is around 60 to 65 cents a pound.

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Before recycling your old mobile phone, you can compare the prices at the mobile phone recycling comparison website. Different recycling companies and the prices they offer are available at http://www.sellmobilephone.com

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You can try bringing it back to your provider. I’m not sure if you get money, though.

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Scrap Metal recycling prices for various metals and materials can be obtained at http://scrapmetalpricesandauctions.com/

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Unfortunately, it is almost impossible for an individual to make any money from recycling cans, and that’s because the price of scrap aluminum is too low to make it worthwhile, unless you have thousands of cans. I don’t know the exact price, but recently, it was about 42 cents per pound. (It varies every day, and I have also seen it around 30 cents a pound.) There are roughly 30-32 cans per pound, so a can might be worth 1.5 cents or so. But that’s a delivered price. You have to bring the cans to the place they will be melted down. If you can’t (and of course, you can’t) you take them to a wholesaler, who will pay you even less money. So unless you have thousands of cans, that price is not high enough to make any money. Even worse, you might have to crush the cans first, so that the buyer knows there aren’t any full cans in the pile to increase the weight.

For example, if you have 300 cans, that is about 10 pounds’ worth. Let’s be optimistic and say you could get 50 cents per pound, which is above the last price I saw and way above what a wholesaler would pay. But assuming that you deliver them to a recycler, the 300 cans might be worth $5.00. However, if you have to drive 10 miles to the recycler and 10 miles back, you would use about a gallon of gas, which means you would be spending at least half the $5.00 on gas. On top of that, you would need to put the cans in large plastic bags for transport, so your profit would be even lower. And that’s even with the optimistic assumptions I made.

It makes sense for communities to do recycling, because they are able to collect thousands of cans every day, and tens of thousands every week. But the economics of it just don’t work for individual people. I know this is not the answer you wanted, but I hope it helps anyway.

The Expert answers:

A waste of time and money. With few exceptions recycling is promoted by government agencies and/or environmental groups. They are not interested in the cost or labor involved in recycling. They have a political agenda and recycling is part of it.

Take plastic bottles as an example. In my town recycling of plastic bottles is mandatory. We must sort our trash and put plastic bottles in a separate bin. The city loves this program. First they force you to buy a $5 plastic bin from the city for $50. Instant profit for the city. The bins are not numbered so if they get lost or stolen there is no way to track them. If you lose your bin you must pay another $50. Meanwhile the city has a return center for “lost” bins and you get $5 for every bin you turn in. No questions asked, no ID needed. This means you have to take out your bin once a week and stand and guard it until the truck arrives then take it back inside.

If the city finds a plastic bottle in your regular trash it is a $100 fine. More money for the city.

The unions love this recycling project. It means more union jobs as “recycling engineers” as they call the drivers of the special trucks, and “inspectors” who go around and root through your garbage looking for reasons to fine you $100. They also have separate mechanics to work on the recycling trucks. They are just Ford pick ups but they need special mechanics to work on them. At union wages.

The local government and eco groups use this recycling as PR for their “Green Initiative” program. They tell us about all the jobs it creates, the income it brings to our city, and how they are cleaning up the planet.

Meanwhile do you know what they do with the plastic bottles? There is no place to sell them locally and it cost more than the plastic is worth to ship them to the nearest place that reuses them. So the city dumps them in the local landfill. This is what recycling means to me.

Paper recycling. Paper plants get tax subsidies to recycle paper. That is our tax money. Then they sell you the recycled paper at a higher cost than new paper. That’s right. They sell you inferior paper at a higher price because it is “green.”

Recycling metals works because it is private business and not run by the government. Steel, aluminum, copper, lead, etc. Scrap yards buy these metals from you. You make money from recycling and the metal plants save money from buying recyclable metals. It works because it is profitable for both parties and cost no tax dollars.

If private business ever gets into the recycling of plastic, paper, glass, etc without government interference then it will work. Until then it’s a waste of time amd money.

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Depends. Are you selling these cans directly to a scrap yard? If so, the money you get will be dependent on the price of aluminum. Alternatively, are you taking these cans to a recycle depot? If so, how much do they pay you for each can? Divide 50.00 by how much they pay you per can to get the number of cans you need. Here they pay 5 cents so it would be 50/0.05 = 1000 cans.

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US$ 2035.00 highest price
US$ 1693.00 Average Price
US$ 1891.21 lowes price

Daily Aluminum – LME Cash Prices
Date DScrap Sellrice Close Price Change Up / Down Changes in (%)
07-21-2009 Tuesday 1671.5 1713.5 +42 +2.45%
07-22-2009 Wednesday 1713.5 1693 -20.5 -1.21%
07-24-2009 Friday 1707 1702.5 -4.5 -0.26%
07-27-2009 Monday 1702.5 1798 +95.5 +5.31%
07-30-2009 Thursday 1814 1775.5 -38.5 -2.17%
08-03-2009 Monday 1819 1863.5 +44.5 +2.39%
08-04-2009 Tuesday 1863.5 1930.5 +67 +3.47%
08-05-2009 Wednesday 1930.5 1904.5 -26 -1.37%
08-07-2009 Friday 1904.5 2001.5 +97 +4.85%
08-10-2009 Monday 2001.5 1972 -29.5 -1.50%
08-11-2009 Tuesday 1972 1998 +26 +1.30%
08-12-2009 Wednesday 1998 1954 -44 -2.25%

The Expert answers:

Most places do have a recycling center you can go to. Check out http://earth911.org to find one near you.

Depending on the laws and norms where you live some pay per pound and others pay a redemption value. The redemption value is a deposit you paid when you purchased the product and is usually determined by the state, generally 5 cents per can or bottle but this varies. Some states exclude water from the deposit system. They know which cans even if they’re smashed because it’s a standard system. The only way you can cheat the system is if you bought the product in another state that doesn’t use the system or has a different rate, which is mostly unlikely to happen on a large enough scale to matter much.

Those that pay per pound are based entirely on market value – what they pay is directly tied to what they can sell the melt down for, so yes the economy will dictate that.

Generally, since you paid for the product, you will never MAKE money recycling unless you didn’t pay for the product to begin with AND do it in a high volume. You will only reduce your cost for buying products.

Because most places have a convenient curbside pick up now (whether you know it or not,some jurisdictions sort from your regular trash) recycling will increase, but getting money back will decrease. Why drive to a recycling center when your trash man will do it for you?

For the city to have implemented a recycling program chances are good they are at least making the money back that it costs them to run the program, if not more. The economy might drive places like schools and museums to install recycling bins that they redeem to recover some money. As well I know a few people that are more concerend with every penny so they’ve begun recycling where they would have seen it as a waste of time before. So yes, the economy will boost recycling. However, less people will be able to afford soda and bottled water and such, so this may be a toss up in the end.

Most recycling centers are middle men with a close affiliation to the actual melt down plant. Sometimes they’re owned by the same company but it’s rarely done at the same site.

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There are several options,
!) put it on freecycle a Yahoo group
2) take to electronics stores, they are no longer suupposed to charge for used electronics ( government changed the charge system)
3) drop off at Scotts Industrial waste cleanup, on fortune Crescent on the south end off Gardiners north of Princess. The plant on the North side at the rear you simply drop it off in the rear. (they have a building on the south side as well but not for ewaste)

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If you like artistic things then junk electronics, they can certainly be used for that purpose without knowing what each part does. I would suggest that you be carefull with batteries, especially lithium batteries because they may be charged and if they are shorted out they can get hot enough to explode.

As far as the wires on the boards is concerned, once a device is beyond repair it really doesn’t matter where the wires go but you can look up some of the ICs and figure out what they do. The keyboards usually have a chip that detects when a key is depressed. One terminal of a whole row or half a row of keys is connected to a digital output of a chip. This output delivers a low power signal that changes from 0 V to maybe 5 V (or vise versa) for a very short time. Columns of keys are connected to inputs of the same IC. When it sees one of these inputs go from 0 to 5V then it knows you pressed a key and it can then send a signal back to the computer to show it on the screen. This is called keyboard scanning because the IC sequences the output pins continuously so at any time when a key is pressed your selection is detected and the computer is signaled.

When I was growing up how things worked was a chalenge to me and that is probably why I tried to find out and ended learing alot about electrical and other engineering.

Good luck on this adventure.

The Expert answers:

I entered Laptops and Albany Oregon on Earth911 and it spit out dozens of sites within 25 miles.
Go to the site and enter in your zip code to find the closest recycling sites to you.

The Expert answers:

Given below point will help you.

1. Draft a budget, marketing plan and operations plan for your business. Design or buy forms that you need to keep tax records. Plan your schedule so that you have time every week to keep track of your income and expense and to review your marketing and operations plans.
2. Assess the market opportunity in your area. Make a list of several categories of electronic equipment users that you can contact about picking up their discarded electronics. In addition to individual consumers, consider businesses, churches, nonprofit organizations, healthcare facilities, public and private schools and day care facilities. Depending on your area, your city and local government and utility providers might also be great prospects.
3. Review the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulations on electronics recycling. Get information about state and local recycling regulations and services already in place. Consult your local government about any permits and licenses that your business may need. Check with your insurance company about the use of your personal vehicle in your business. Get additional coverage or a rider, if necessary.
4. Locate buyers for the electronic equipment that you plan to collect for your recycling business. Some larger cities have centralized recycling locations run by the government that accept recyclables from consumers and entrepreneurs. In other cases, you may need to find companies that pay for recycled electronics by consulting business directories and your local phone book.
5. Decide whether you will collect electronic equipment from both consumers and businesses. Initially it may be more efficient to collect unwanted electronic equipment from businesses. In most cities, businesses tend to be grouped close together due to zoning laws. You may spend less time collecting equipment in an office park than trying to contact individual consumers.
6. Find out the rates that master recyclers pay for used electronics in your area. This can range from a few cents per item to several dollars. You may need to identify more than one electronics reclaimer that will accept your recycled electronics. Some may specialize in audio or video equipment only and refuse items like portable telephones and computers.
7. Set up a fee structure that you can advertise to potential prospects for pickups. You can offer to pick up discarded electronics from prospects for a fee or at no cost to them. Some recyclers also elect to provide a small financial reward as an incentive for people to hold discards for them instead of a competitor. Estimate your potential profit and determine if splitting it with the equipment donor is practical.
8. Make a schedule for picking up equipment from customers that have agreed to give you their discarded electronics. Let your prospects know how frequently you expect to visit their area. Give prospects a way to contact you to schedule special pickups, if their normal equipment disposal schedule changes.

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I don’t recycle them because there isn’t an electronic recycling center near me.

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Yes, you can make money by recycling your electronics as now a days many online site provide platform which buys your E-waste and also pay a respectable amount for it.

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No way. Electronics are an amalgamation of many different types of materials, some of which are actually worth “harvesting” and others are not.

Often times the way electronics “Recycling” works is by feeding circuit boards into a chipper, feeding the result into a furnace and them collecting the melted copper and gold. The waste is disposed of, so it’s not really recycling. This is what happens in asia and india with our old pc’s.

Refrigerators are a whole separate issue due to the complications caused by their compressors and chemicals used in them.

Recycling appliances and electronics is really difficult. The only effective method of recycling is encouraging the re-use of old items and extending the time before they end up in the landfill.

The Expert answers:

Your question suggests it doesn’t recycle at all, it does by sending the old stuff abroad by the container load.

How much could this be improved, I suspect quite a lot.

Http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/2aae1d283e9996cf85257944005c71d4?OpenDocument
http://www.urtrecycles.com/ProductsServices/ElectronicsRecycling.aspx

The Expert answers:

I worked ten years for a pair of fly-by-night but one-long-coming remanufacturing plants of chemical agents used in the making of various electronic components.

Dramatizing, mind you, sometimes the mob and the garbage man are the only ones doing what is right by accord of the larger picture of natural harmony.

I suppose you ought to pay taxes on your business success by pursuing a business license or by listening to better advice than I know to give you.

In recycling huge volumes of the slop that formerly was the stuff buried in pits in Mexico and was $400/55 gal drum to have buried, I was amazed that the chemistry of its undoing was a high I cannot begin to convey to you…and there is no question to me how the spiritual and the scientific are one origin that is like your best friend who works as three-headed dog at the gates of someplace where the door styx so please show some respect.

Understand all that goes into the brainery of electronic material manipulation and you’ll find much human genius that didn’t bother to clean up its mess after finishing its last project, and if it had , it would never have run into that big snag it has, as growing stigma, on its current project.

Using makeshift garbage equipment, a ten-man job of chemical production can be safely performed with the focus of one…in a weekend , not six months. But whom I? It is a cooperative effort of countless thousands that is