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I also cash in my cans. Plastic is much more difficult to find a buyer for. I usually put newspapers, cardboard, & plastics in the military base recycling center because the money goes to MWR fund. A way to donate without spending a dime.

Check out the website I found. There are nine businesses but you could call and check with them.

Good luck and thanks for thinking green.

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No, electronics are hazardous waste and some places will charge you to dump it. Go to www.earth911.com to find an e-waste location.

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Just enter in your zip code and what you have to recycle and this website will give you a list of the nearest locations.

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Try this link.

Http://www.co.arlington.va.us/Departments/EnvironmentalServices/swd/EnvironmentalServicesSwdDropoff.aspx

http://www.mde.state.md.us/Programs/LandPrograms/Recycling/index.asp

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I know you can get money for also recylcing soda cans themselves (i live in Indiana and recycle cans).You can just recyle the flip tops of cans but that to me just takes to many cans. You don’t get money for recycling plastic (at least where i live we don’t) we just put plastic and paper in the blue recycle bin provided by the city and leave it close to the street every other week where they come and pick the stuff up.

When i take recycle my soda cans, i crush them flat with my shoes and when i have 3 completely filled black garbage bags, i get about $30

to find a website just google “recycling center in (your town)”

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You could reuse it this way

http://home.xnet.com/~renkel/yard.2004/back.main/toilet.very.good.jpg

You’d be the talk of the neighborhood! 😉

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Don’t forget that you’re still “doing your part” if you’re not making money off it. Aluminum pays off far better than other recycle-ables in terms of the costs of mining more vs. Recycling, so it’s surprising that you’re able to get paid for those other items anywhere!

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Look up Scrap Metal in your phone book. Any place that recycles cars would recycle aluminum cans

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Stop voting republican and I will tell you. And hillbillys, you need to cut energy usage, recycling does little and does not matter.

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I am relieved someone had that in mind too. It will be so easy and effective in taking care of our environment…..i hope they get it!

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Uh, no. They go to a “recycle yard”, if it’s San Francisco, where the stuff goes through a very fast sorting process through LOTS of conveyer belts and sorters (people), and finally, gets packed into recyclables lots. The compostables goes to a compost site. The rest goes to a landfill.

Go to Blockbusters and see if they have “Dirty Jobs by Mike Rowe”. They have an episode on garbage recycling and composting in SF Bay Area.

—
Kasey C, PC guru since Apple II days
Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake!

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Al Gore is an arse! He doesnt know what the hell is going on, he’s just another X politician talking shit that all the ever do, inviting celebrities to raise awareness what a fucking joke!

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I think it’s an awesome way to encourage recycling! But I also know the stuff I throw in the trash, I would want anyone to ever see! Not to mention bills w/ credit card #’s on them, school info, tons of personal and sensitve materials. I guess I could always shred them, but what about those other things?
🙂
Where are you from?

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That happened to me when I moved into this new neighborhood. If it was a garbage/recycling can issued to you by the township you live in, yes I would call the recycling or waste management company to get it replaced.

However if it was one you bought, I’m afraid you’re out of luck. I suppose you could always file a police report about it if you so desired. I personally would not bother. But what I did, and I recommend you doing, is SPRAYPAINT your address on your garbage cans. I just put the number of my house. That way there is no confusion about who it belongs to.

Good Luck!!

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Republic Services bought Allied Waste, which had bought BFI. They probably haven’t gotten around to repainting all of the trucks yet. Hope this helps.

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The only difference is who and where the items get separated.

The money part is a local issue, and not directly related to the process.

The 5-cent per can thing is meant to encourage recycling when you are outside your home, where most of your trash will typically go into a general trash bin and end up not recycled typically. You end up being sort of paid to sorting the stuff out instead of the recycler. Actually, you are returned the 5-cent deposit you placed on the can when you bought it.

When you are home, you are paying the trash collection company to manage the sorting for you. This is partially why you find beverages cheaper in the supermarket than in a corner market/store. The supermarket purchase is assumed to be consumed at home, so you are already paying to get your cans sorted, so why hit you up for an extra 5-cents you will never get back?

Yes, you can abuse the system by buying at the supermarket and returning the cans to a recycling place, but you waste time and gas/money to make the special trips so the inconvenience may offset the effort.

Hope this helps.

Good luck!

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It looks like the usual suspects-Mixed paper, including newspaper, phone books, junk mail, paperboard (i.e.cereal, cracker and tissue boxes), color/white paper)
Cardboard (must be flattened with no plastic wrap or Styrofoam)
All plastic bottles and jugs
Glass bottles and jars
Metaweb pageand beverage containers

The city of Alexandria as a pretty good website about this stuff http://alexandriava.gov/RecyclingAtHome

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The biggest pro is convenience. For politicians it is a very visible sign of “something being done” (Even if it amounts to sorting by size the grains of sand on a beach for effectiveness.)

The biggest con is it costs people money.

Http://www.wastenews.com has had a number of good articles over the years, especially during the New York City trash strike a number of years ago.

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If your friend want to buy an industrial shredder, you can find many scrap shredder manufacturers or dealers in the USA or in Europe.
If he/she has a very limited budget, he/she can try a Chinese made machine. Here is good supplier of this kind of machinery that can grind all these materials including waste wood, plastic and metal bottles into pellets. Www.shredder-china.com

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If that is the Glasgow area in Scotland or wherever, you have to specify as choosing US on yahoo gives all Enlgish questions.

Kevspr: I hope you get some info, I am in the US and we do not get anything for recycling, however there are places that will buy architectural salvage, bricks etc. Perhaps you could google architectural salvage. Good luck

Hail Caledonia

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Colex Holdings. Check em out!

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Most candle companies buy their jars from a glass supplier, so whether or not the glass is recycled or new would depend on which supplier they buy their jars from. One of the suppliers of glass jars is Libby Glass. Their website indicates that they use 30% recycled glass in their products.

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Although I live in the States, I don’t think recycling agencies generally accept this kind of material. But, what you can do is ask the manufacturer to accept it’s product back to be reused. This concept is called Extended Producer Responsibility, or EPR. Lots of companies are doing it, like Hewlett-Packard, for one. I was looking at the website for Lucite International, which seems to be a major producer of Perspex items, and they said: “Products made from acrylic can be efficiently recycled and chemically de-polymerized back to the original raw material.” Hoorah! So what I think you should do is call or write to the manufacturer of your perspex, encouraging them to take back their old product. You can bring up the fact that it would be beneficial to them, saves money to reuse material, and many other major companies are already on board with EPR. It’s worth a shot, eh? 🙂 Hope this helps. Good luck!

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Good speech. I would suggest have a list of resources you can cite to support your argument.
Think about adding composting into the mix. It is at the very core of recycle.
I added a link to the CWIMB site on recycling and assembly ands senate bills in CA. Use as reference or to support your discussion.

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What kind of recycle bin is it? Is it one of those plastic box things or does it look like a garbage can? In CA our recycle bins look like garbage cans and they already have wheels on them.
You can try Home depot I’m sure they have wheeles of various sizes you will have to assemble them on your self though.

Try this site…These might help you, I hope. Good luck!

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I have like 15+ years working with windows and glass. Whoever is telling you that tempered glass can not be recycled is out right lying to you. Laminated glass is another option. That is what the windshield of all vehicles have. In between is a plastic material to keep the glass from shattering all over the place. Tempered glass is what is used on your car’s door windows. Also local building departments use a 24inch heighth for tempered glass. Anything 24″ or less from the floor has to be tempered. It varies state to state.

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That is a great idea for a company. Its up to u though if u want to do it

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What kind of containers? 2-liter pop bottles can be made into bird feeders…

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Yes you can. But if you do so, telling people you will contribute a certain amount to causes you have mentioned you had better do so. And have good accounting records.

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Actually the court case California vs. Greenwood in 1988 resulted in the court deciding that it is legal to take one’s trash after it is placed to the curb or street with the intent to dispose of it. Thus, rendering trash abandoned.

The case was based on police searching through the trash for evidence without a warrant.

Recyclables separated from the main trash are another story.

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Crush them to save space

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Check with your local public school system. I know it sounds nuts but we have a “restore” here used by teachers. Orange juice cans, toilet paper tubes, oatmeal boxes, teachers love these types of things art classes and science classes. If your local schools do not have such a store you might check with individual schools or teachers you might know. I think those little pots would be treasured by an art teacher.

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Containers with 1 or 2 in the symbol are both made from polyethylene. There are difficulties with automatically sorting the different plastics prior to recycling and so they probably decide to recycle the most common plastics.

Take a look here…..
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic
There is some information about the different plastics and recycling them.

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Because the lids are made from a different material than the jug/bottle is and when the recyclable material is melted down it would contaminate the finished processed material.

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If you’re speaking of metal cargo containers, then ditto on the earlier answers. Old metal cargo containers and truck boxes (the boxes with attached wheels that trucks drive around) are sold/found for reuse as stationary storage, for making root cellars in damp areas, and other purposes too.

But, if you’re speaking of other types of shipping containers and boxes….Sure, their use is as varied as the materials they are made of, the materials that can be scrapped off of them, and ones imagination. I once had some very nice, wood, planter boxes about 15′ long, 16″+ deep, and 18″-20″ wide that had been shipping containers. When I had completely used them up/they rotted apart, these same boxes went in for wood recycling.

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Because plastic bottles are cheaper to make and weigh less so they are cheaper to ship. Businesses exist to make money, so the cheaper the better.

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Without going into long detail, the short answer is STAY AWAY.

Think about it this way
If you went shopping for a chair that cost $100. And right next to it the identical chair $40. But the sticker said all 4 legs were broken at one point but now glued together and declared safe… THAT’S SALVAGE…how safe would you feel sitting on it, never mind going down the hwy at 70 mph

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It would be best to get an experienced person to do it. Yes ALL the old urethane needs to be removed.

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Try removing the virus from your pen drive using some updated antivirus. This may slove your problem.
If this does not work then, go to the follwing Blog and download a application and follow its guide.It will help you to remove virus!

Http://infokrp.blogspot.com/

Good luck!

P.S.- Its called a pen drive or flash drive and not a pin drive. $:-)

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The process involves risks of hampering system files. So before execution, make sure that you know what you are doing. First explore your “Folder options”. In “View” tab, make sure to enable “Show hidden files and folders” & disable “Hide extension for known file types” & “Hide protected operating system files”. Now in every drive, you will see a folder named “RECYCLER”. Right-click on it to open & then delete everything inside.

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Apparently it’s a virus that is tranmitted from computer to computer using Flash Drives.

Here’s a couple of solutions.

Http://tipsfromgeek.com/2009/10/how-to-remove-recycler-exe-virus-from-pen-drive.html

http://www.ehow.com/how_4885725_remove-recycler-virus.html

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Have a usb disk security for removing it from usb..
Even if you delete it it would rbe regenerated its because of rootkit….you can delete rootkit by installing bit defender or symantec antivirus….thats the only way

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‘Volume’ is the hard disk. ‘System Volume Information’ is the information relating to NTFS filesystem. It is the information that makes the filesystem work! Like a reference table telling your hard disk reader where to go to find files.

Deleting this is like deleting the index of a book – how could your computer ever find any files if it didn’t keep a library?

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Is this a virus? – Yes, its a worm.

How do I remove it? – run:

http://www.precisesecurity.com/tools-resources/adware-tools/flash-disinfector/

http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/

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You are getting confused—these are the hidden folders of the Windows operating system not a virus
please go to My Computer>Tools>Folder Options>View> and put a check mark in front of “Hide Protected Operating System Files(Recommended)” and click OK
now you wont see these hidden folders.

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Yea my school recycles and a lot of people recycle so yea it should be a law and it would be a good law

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I think we need to think of other innovative ideas to contribute our part in saving our planet. I have thought of a few interesting ways of doing so. Please do read them:

1) WEAR GREEN-
We can wear T-Shirts which has an eco- friendly message on it e.g.”Save mother earth”, “Recycling is the best policy” or any other good message you can think of. Many people read whats written in our T-Shirt as we roam around. This way we can convey our message without saying anything.

2) REUSE TO REDUCE-
i) (This is specially for girls) Try to experiment with your old clothes & accessories. Cut your jeans, stitch or stick some designs on it e.g. Smileys, initials, patterns or anything you like. We can use lots of creativity on our shirts & t-shirts as well. Make some designs on them, write some messages, tear two shirts & join them into one. Join two broken bracelets into one. Be innovative. This way we can save our money, get a new wardrobe & accessories & reduce the waste created by throwing away old clothes & accessories.

Ii) Use steel utensils instead of styrofoam. In India, people from middle class families & small restaurants use steel utensils which are stronger, cheaper than earthenware & glass crockery & can be used as many number of times & can be recycled also.

Iii) Use unused paper to bind a book. Many a times, not all the pages of our notebooks or registers are completely filled & we just throw them after use. Instead we can tear all the unused pages from the old notebooks & registers & bind them in a book. This way we can get a new book & reduce paper.

3) MAKE A COMMUNITY-
Many people around us are keen to help our environment. We can join hands with them & spread the message of ‘saving our planet’. This way we can convey our message to a larger number of people & soon other people would join our campaign & we can enlarge our community.

These are some few methods which i practise in my daily life & i really like them because these methods are very convenient for anyone to follow & these are quite effective ways of saving. Hope all those who read it like them as well & try these methods.

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Well, sounds like you got caught with someone thats only interested in the $$$ side of the recycling market. There is actually not all that much money in the recycling. So unless you are a consistent contributor to the local recycler he is just not really that interested. This goes for plastic and cans as well. Recycling is not really a great idea for a fundraiser, maybe a community clean up effort but not FUNDraiser.
Sorry, but it also really depends on the company you are dealing with. See if there are any others you can contact.
GL

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Organizing a park/beach cleanup is a good enough idea to justify your club. Run with that and you will accomplish more good for the environment than all the global warming activists put together.

Good luck with your effort!!

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This is very common, locks, gates and security cameras are the only real solution. The city I moved from had a curbside recycling program and when people would put out the bins others would come by and take the cans, so the city would go around a spray with a black light paint. When a person came into a recycle center they would shine a black light over the cans, if the paint showed up, the people would be fined or arrested and they wouldn’t get the money. You could only do that if you could get your local recycle center to cooperate.

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Arriving to each class promptly, topped off with the vital element of completing all assignments preeminently and posthaste adds up to a very valuable point as to why I should be considered. Another valuable point to consider is I contribute my utmost effort in every challenge I encounter. Those are just a few of my keys to academic success. My aptitude as a student would be in mathematics as I aquired straight A’s in Algebra Honors and am currently taking the studious course of Geometry Honours. A subject I would be eager to improve in is civics as I want to become intrigued with all the information we are given about government and economics. Who knows what the future holds, I may be the first woman president.
When I am nominated to be the group leader for a school project, I will habitually will accept and I have confidence in myself to extract the finest concepts from the group and amalgamate them to generate a project of A+ standard. When I nominate another student with the capability or who desires or requires to lead the group, and I see this student struggling to govern the group accurately or correctly, I will strive to aid both the student and the group. In seventh grade I was chosen to be the leader of the group for a history project,even though some students in my assigned group were reluctant to attempt to participate at first I pressed them to and we eventually all earned an A. Every year regardless I participate Solo and Ensemble Competition, so far I have received I which is the highest score attainable. This is an example of my participation in extra curricular activities, to enter the competition you need a pianist to accompany you. I lead the accompanist whilst I played my violin by signalling when we started and stopped and how downtempo or uptempo we played.
When I make a commitment, I will traditionally follow through with it. I will on no account partially complete a commitment, and I will certainly not make promises I cannot keep. I assure you I will make the commitment to go to school everyday, if I am not terribly ill. If I am accepted into The National Junior Honor Society, I will commit to come to every single conference, if possible. Reverence, being fair and showing kindness and generosity to everybody I meet is vital to what I stand for and a component of my character. I will show consideration and magnanimity to my superiors regardless of the situation.
I loved my experience of giving back to the community. I am very eager
to volunteer my time again. Although I have not done a copious amount of community service for different organizations, but I have volunteered four and a half hours of my time to clean an elderly person who was unable to do so herself. In addition I volunteered at a thrift store that donates all profits to the local hospitalI am also planning on joining the recycling club, a club that helps the school go green by emptying all the recycling bins in the school, however it has not started yet but it will in the near future. I hope I can get another experience volunteering at a different organization.
Being a National Junior Honor Society member for me has always been an “if”. I don’t want it to be an if any longer. I want it to be an “I am”. I am a National Junior Honor Student, that is what I crave to be, I desire to be a step closer to becoming a Harvard university student, is what I yearn to say. I believe I have the desire, potential and initiative to be amongst this prestigious group of students. Thank you for your time and consideration.

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I don’t how it works in your school, but from what i know in my area, Blue bin is for paper and Grey bin is for plastic and glasses.

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This is great,but in the 3rd last sentence of the 2nd paragraph it should be harmful not hurtful 🙂
but other than tht its good,especially how its for an awesome cause!

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Tell them to empty ALL their bottles and stuff and like overflow the recycle bin, they might think it will be funny cause then the teacher will have to pick everything up, maybe it’ll work?

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Don’t know what your thesis is but you could use a line such as
“Many people believe we are throwing our future away”
as an introduction to the need to recycle or risk running out of resources in the future.

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Hahaha. So you think the people at the recycling facility would be throwing bags of garbage into bins of plastic and paper? And just let the garbage trucks keep unloading there?

You can’t just recycle garbage. Thats why its called garbage. However in many places where they have little landfill space (Hawaii, Athens, Singapore) they are either making people recycle more, or using incinerators to burn the garbage, and make energy with the heat. In Hawaii, they are now exporting the garbage to mainland US.

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Yo should go to urlocal pathmark or walmart to the recycling center for that

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Today they try to put the separation of trash in the hands of millions of individuals. Many could care less about separating trash and often people aren’t sure what is recyclable and what isn’t.

If we really want to recycle and it is worth it, it must take place at the central location where all the trash is accumulated. Not at each persons house.

Machines can be used to separate allot of it (like metals from other materials) California uses these.

To really get the most out of recycling the state needs to get serious about it and redesign the dumps to accommodate and facilitate recycling.

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Depends on what the new technology is.
Http://www.oksolar.com/roof/
So far, nuclear power has been a bust, and an ecological disaster.
Http://www.hanfordwatch.org/
Recycling cuts down on the trash that needs to be handled,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling
and reduces the amount of new resources that need to be produced.
Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recycling#Wartime_recycling

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Not entirely. Probably, 5% of garbage will have to be picked by the truck. As we know, we can recycle papers, plastics, metals, glass, wood. And we can compost food leftovers, greens and other vegetation. But what can we do with obsolete computers, broken down appliances and outmoded materials not already mentioned above? These have to be given to the garbage guys who will then take them to the recycling centers and the rest to the dump. Take note that burning of garbage is not allowed. You can get fined for this.

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Well, i have a big tub in my kitchen and I put all of my recylables in there. I will put a link below so you can see for yourself.

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Widespread availability of curbside pick up of recyclables.
The fact that we ship most of it out to third world countries and don’t really know what happens to it after that.
People would rather throw stuff out then take the time to sort and clean out recyclables.
Most schools, corporations, companies, stores don’t do it and home recycling is only going to accomplish so much.
A huge amount of compostable food waste is thrown into a plastic bag in a landfill because people don’t view it as recyclable.
Recycling isn’t the answer to all our problems because recycling uses more toxic chemicals and produces more carbon to produce an inferior product.
Lack of knowledge about what is and isn’t recyclable and where to take things like electronics, paints, prescription drugs etc.

N.

Http://badhuman.wordpress.com

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It has the smartest people living there. Recycling is a GIANT WASTE of time and energy.

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Try the macomb county official website. Macombcountymi.gov

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It is possible to recycle these products. But there is one factor that needs to be considered. Paper is sold and bought by its weight. Because these products are so light the market for them as useful recycled components is not very good. Thats why you don’t see them recycled much. It takes a great deal of weight to make recycling paper goods profitable and these products are just not desirable….at this time.
Good thinking though.

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Actually, that is already being done. I believe between 10-20% of the worlds nuclear energy comes from surplus, or recycled, nuclear stock piles, namely from enriched warheads.

This helps off set the mining costs, as we are currently not mining enough Uranium to fulfill the power needs.

These numbers may be wrong and I don’t feel like searching for them, but I believe we mine around 40,000 tons of Uranium a year and use around 10,000 tons of military Uranium a year for Civilian power.

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There’s this book that they give out for free…it’s called the “phone book,” and if you look in the “yellow pages,” you can find names and addresses! Wow!

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1.Do a system restore applicable to XPVistaWindows7.

Start>all programs>Accessories>system tools>system restore>click on a highlighted date 5 days or older & follow the steps.

2. VistaWindows7

Right-click on your desktop and choose Personalize

Click on the Change Desktop Icons link in the upper left hand corner

In the Desktop Icons Settings window, check the Recycle Bin box and click OK

click apply & then ok

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Metal.

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A very good question.

Yes paper recycling is a net loss for the environment, but it means more trees can be used for wood instead of paper.

Glass is an interesting thing to look at. It’s made from sand and people think sands not going to be in short supply so it must be a net loss. However, the sand is usually dredged from sand bars in the sea.Sand bars act to shelter coastal areas from powerful waves If too much of these sand bars are taken away they can collapse, destroying marine environments and opening up the coastline to erosion. Therefore it makes sense to recycle glass.

Plastic recycling makes sense because the oil it is made of is non-renewable. But it’s not that great for the environment because different types of plastic have to be sorted before they’re recycled, so they ship it off to china (where wages are low)to be sorted.

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The oil sludge has contaminated your sacks thus making your entire sack a hazardous material. The only systems I’m aware of that actually “use” contaminated oil are a specific type of heating system that can burn oil contaminated with an assortment of other materials. In this country, they are most often found in industrial, auto repair, and auto salvage buildings. Some individuals use these systems to heat their home garages and shops; I am more aware of older installations and no new installations. Still these oil burning systems require a fluid to burn; to the best of my knowledge, they do not burn solids.

I can only think of hazardous waste disposal for either eventual containment or incinerator burning.

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Here is the CRV site…http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dor/Pages/Index.aspx …….California Refund Value
Eff Jan 1, 2007, CRV paid to consumers when they recycle containers at recycling centers will increase to 5¢ for each beverage container less than 24 ounces and 10¢ for each container 24 ounces or greater. (use link for more info)…
Find A Nearby Recycling Center….
Just enter your zip code to find a bottle & can redemption center near you. (click on the link on the page)

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That is theft and can be charged as theft with a fine or even jail if it is someone with a criminal history.}{

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In the UK you can’t recycle the yellow pages, the glue in the spine doesn’t go throught he machine. Everything else is fine.

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There are two processes in plastic manufacturing that bins can be made ,,,thermoforming ie:vaccum forming,,and injection molding,,

both have there pros and cons

thermoforming is cheaper to build molds or forms but depending on how deep the tote is can be problematic with cosmetic issues..not to mention long cycle times ,sourcing sheet thats consistent in color and ……..

Injection molding is the best method with fast cycle times from10 sec. To 5 min ,but tooling is spendy 2000 up to 200,000 cost of a production mold 15-30 thou. But run1-2-million parts w/little service

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In my area of the U.K. We all have

a green bin for cans and glass
a grey bin for food waste (with a smaller indoor one to be emptied into the large one)
a clear plastic bag for paper,
” ” ” for cardboard.
” ” ” for plastics
” ” ” for textiles
A large black wheelie bin for other household rubbish plus black bags if the bin isn’t sufficient.

In some areas people are expected to separate different coloured glass and use a different container for cans. Some families front gardens are completely full of containers so that they, effectively, no longer have a garden. I’m all for recycling but there has to be a better way than this. I’m not surprised that some people just put the whole lot in their wheelie bin and use some black plastic sacks for what will not fit in the bin.

I think that, in every area, there should be huge bins strategically placed with slots for different coloured glass, plastic, paper and card. We occasionally see these in car parks or we can take our stuff to the recycling centre but that takes time and petrol. There should be more of these places if they wish to keep the co-operation of the public. We pay our council tax, which rises every year yet we are expected to do a great deal of the work that the councils used to do. There is a great shortage of jobs, not surprisingly, because they’ve fired most of the people who used to be paid to sort out our rubbish.

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Check your neighbors with same service. Some different services even in same area have different colors

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The files and data stay on your computer but it is “marked” as deleted. This allows the computer to overwrite the data with new stuff.

Because of this you can recover data that has been deleted (search using goole or yahoo for undelete programs) so long as you haven’t already overwritten it with anything new.

It is also worth noting that the computer wont always overwrite the oldest stuff first, it just overwrites which ever bit it comes accross.

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They can be put into the bins, but they won’t be recycled.

Cardboard containers that held ice cream, juice, and milk are not recyclable. They have a wax coating that makes them waterproof.

In order to be recycled, cardboard is first soaked in water to make it into a pulp. You cannot soak wax-coated paperboard (cardboard) to make it pulp.

My husband and I run our city’s Recycling Center, and we have talked over this issue many times with our cardboard recycler. They must take out the wax-coated containers and throw them away.

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No put it in a compost pile or if you do not have one put it in the grass it will decompose.

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If you can’t get one from the township, you can buy one from Staples for around $7.

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#1 PET which stands for Polyethylene terephthalate. PET can be melted and drawn out into long fibers and recycled into carpets, fiberfill for jackets, and fabric for T-shirts and shopping bags

#2 HDPE or high-density polyethylene. Clear HDPE could easily be made into new containers. The colored HDPE (liquid detergent, and shampoo bottles) is generally recycled in plastic lumber.

Vinyl or polyvinyl chloride (# 3 V) could be recycled. It is used for clear food packaging and plumbing pipe. However, collecting it for recycling is cost-prohibitive because there are not enough items made from the material to warrant local factories to recycle it into new products. They are generally used once and tossed.

Low-density polyethylene (# 4 LDPE) is very flexible and made into bags for bread, frozen food, and grocery. Some of these bags are recycled into new bags or plastic lumber such as Trex. This plastic is lightweight and trucking it back for recycling uses more energy than producing a virgin product. Unless there is a recycling factory close by, most LDPE ends up in the landfill.

Polypropylene (# 5 PP) is made into yogurt, margarine, and other food containers. Like number 3 V, there are not enough containers made from PP to justify collecting it and shipping it to a recycling factory. In places where big industries use PP, there is enough volume for it to be sold for recycling.

Then there’s #6 PS – Polystyrene. The cost of moving used Styrofoam is higher than making it from virgin oil.

#7 OTHER. It can’t be sold or recycled.

The Expert answers:

Because not all plastics are created equal. Plastic is a great material, but there are so many types of different densities. Some are easier to recycle than others. The numbers show what the plastic is made out of. That way they can be recycled appropriately. Different procedures are need to recycle different types of plastic.

The Expert answers:

It shows the type of plastic.

The Expert answers:

The numbers tell the company when and where the product was made. This helps if there are any production problems or recalls, etc. It lets the company trace it back to the individual production facility and date and shift it was made.

The Expert answers:

Even though plastic bottles and tubs might have the same number inside their recycling symbols, they are not really made of identical material. Bottles are produced through one kind of molding process and lids through another, and these two processes require different plastic mixtures that melt at different temperatures. If these plastic containers are recycled together, the result is a mixture of material that has little value in a second round of manufacturing.

The lids to plastic bottles are made of different grades of plastic than the bottle itself. These grades of plastic are not recyclable in many states/provinces, and mixing lids in with plastic bottles will diminish the value of bottle-grade plastic collected.

The Expert answers:

Try these guys. I know nothing about them. You are on your own.

The Expert answers:

The company, were you getting package from should take care of this and deal with UPS. They should send you another package or refund you your money. Good Luck!

The Expert answers:

Identifies the type of plastic you have.
PET and HDPE bottles are recycled by the majority of local authorities

Number 1 Plastics
PET or PETE (polyethylene terephthalate)
Found in: Soft drink, beer bottles; mouthwash bottles; vegetable oil containers; ovenable food trays.
Picked up through most curbside recycling programs.

Number 2 Plastics
HDPE (high density polyethylene)
Found in: Milk jugs, juice bottles; bleach, household cleaner bottles; shampoo bottles;
Picked up through most curbside recycling programs

Number 3 Plastics
V (Vinyl) or PVC
Found in: Detergent bottles, shampoo bottles, cooking oil bottles, clear food packaging,
Rarely recycled

Number 4 Plastics
LDPE (low density polyethylene)
Found in: Squeezable bottles; bread, frozen food, dry cleaning and shopping bags; tote bags;
LDPE is not often recycled through curbside programs,

Number 5 Plastics
PP (polypropylene)
Found in: Some yogurt containers, syrup bottles, ketchup bottles, caps, straws
Recycled through some curbside programs.

Number 6 Plastics
PS (polystyrene)
Found in: Disposable plates and cups, meat trays, egg cartons
Recycled through some curbside programs.

Number 7 Plastics
Miscellaneous
Found in: Three- and five-gallon water bottles, ‘bullet-proof’ materials, sunglasses
Traditionally not been recycled, though some curbside programs now take them

The Expert answers:

“Before plastics can be recycled, they must be sorted. Many different kinds of materials are used as plastics, and most cannot be mixed, in the same way that oil and water can’t be mixed. To help separate one kind of plastic from another, many items have a triangle printed on them, with a number inside. The numbers on your bottles tell you from what kind of plastic the bottle is made.”

http://www.chemheritage.org/EducationalServices/faces/poly/readings/rec.htm

The link shows the different codes and what they mean (for plastics). Some places will ONLY take certain code #’s for recycling, so be sure to look at your area to see if they have limitations on that.