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I assume Watts is known by everyone here. Except me. If I knew I could help. Try Freecycle.org, Curbside. Cardboard is not valuable per pound. I only get 4 bucks for 700 pounds of it. Some people burn it for heat.

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The difference may not be immediately felt by our generations.

Recycling,,,or the idea of doing so is a valid thought for our species to not only control our excess waste, but to re-use those things that don’t truly degrade rapidly, or at all, naturally, or use natural resources that we seem to be unable to stop using,,,IE: Clear cutting Forests,,, with one byproduct being your toilet tissue rolls.

It is also an expensive effort, though I have no Stats of the difference in cost savings.

Our species major problem is greed, and it is a fact that in the USA we are more wasteful, or casual about waste, in general, than most other nations,,,NO offense to us as a nation is meant however.

One of the long term effects,,,hopefully, will be reflected in less Clear Cutting of Forests, though housing, etc. Is the largest user. Plastic Milk jugs will likely be around as long as I am, but have some value when recycled.

I guess my feeling is that conservation is as important as recycling. We should develop better systems for USE of anything, and define what we want to end up as LANDFILL.

Rev. Steven

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You call your waste hauler. They give them out for free (whoever picks up your trash)

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Are you talking about recycling things without sending stuff out?

There are not many continuous loops you can achieve, but you can at least re-use things once or twice.

Example: Capturing as much “grey” water for reuse. Grey water can be almost any used water – from dishwashing, to laundry, to shower/bath/rinse water, to (although gross) sewage. You don’t need to recover every drop, so any amount would make a difference.

Re-Uses:
– Water your plants, and ideally, food plants in a garden, but a bunch of window planters in the city would work too.
– Capture shower/wash/mopping water for flushing your toilet.

Oddly, you may already recycle more than you think. Washing dishes is technically recycling, as you get to use your dinnerware more than once and reduce waste. So are hand-me-down clothes and toys. Heirloom items and prized possessions are a stretch, but the re-use is in the enjoyment of the items, so they count. Keeping old clothes for dirty rags or work shirts counts as well. Even lining trash cans with supermarket shopping bags is recycling of generated waste. We still buy some grocery items based on possible reuse of their glass jar/packaging.

We use food prep discards (vege skins. Ends, scraps and such) to make soup stock.

Croutons from stale bread.

When cooking fatty foods, I save the grease for flavoring/future use (example of recycling not being healthy for your “environment . . .).

I re-use drink bottles by freezing new drinks in them – keeps the drink cold throughout the day and acts as a cold pack for my other items in my lunch cooler – no need to risk the communal office fridge. I can toss when they really wear out.

Then there’s going out of your way to recycle at home: Composting; making fireplace logs from used paper/newsprint; recovery of rainwater for indoor use; quilting old scraps of cloth; making a workbench from an old door;etc.

It’s all how you want to think about recycling.

Good luck!

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I’m in the exact same situation; my apartment building manager says that recycling would be too expensive… I now collect all my recyclables in my unit, and drive to the recycling facility every 3 weeks.

Depending on where you live, there is probably a drop-off location. If you go to this website (http://earth911.org/) and enter your zip code at the top of the page to find a location.

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Where I live the state set the price. Check to see if your state has a recycling program.

California Refund Value

Consumers pay CRV (California Refund Value) when they purchase beverages from a retailer, which is refunded when they redeem the containers at a recycling center. Effective January 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.

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Freetheplanet.org has an online publication entitled “On-Campus Recycling Campaign Guide” at http://www.freetheplanet.org/resources/recycling_guide.pdf . It has excellent suggestions for starting recycling programs on college campuses.

The National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology program has lots of information about environmental projects in the university environment. They also have case studies from campuses across the country. See http://www.nwf.org/campusecology/ for more information

Finally, the Grassroots Recycling Network has a Campus Action campaign that includes links to successful campus recycling programs. See http://www.grrn.org/campus/campus_recycling.html

Please let me know if you need more information.

Laura L. Barnes, MSLIS
Illinois Waste Management and Research Center Library

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You have to transport the waste paper to your plant, fuel is used, Diesel.

You grind the paper into small pcs. Electrical energy is used to power the grinders. Gas or propane is used to move the bails of paper out side of your building and electrical power is used for fort lifts inside the plant.

Moving the paper from the grinder to the bleacher is conveyor belts. Electrical power again.

Bleaching of the paper will take out most of the color and leave you with a gunky mess of ink and fine paper, this isn’t usable waste.

To the dryers next, again in tubs and a fork lift. Pour it out and press it down into form and extrude it into the thickness you want and the pattern on the paper you need. I.e. A paper napkin that is a lite brown in color and used to clean up after eating fast food.

So your waste is anything that is not made into paper that comes in with your paper. String, wire, etc. Fuels and electrical power. Any water used will be contaminated so it has to be put into a holding pond and then pumped out again to drain and to the sewer system a After it is stirred and cleaned up.

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It sounds like a great project! Be sure you have official permission from the park to hold your event. Will you have someone there to receive the donations or will you provide receptacles that you will empty periodically? If you are manning the collection area, do you have enough volunteers to cover your staffing needs? If not, many high schools (at least around here) require community service from their students. You could get willing workers there. You could also check with your local Boy Scout and Girl Scout Councils. They can point you to troops in the area who might like to help. When you get the word out about your event you”ll want to be very specific about what you’ll accept in the way of recyclables. If you’re thinking cans and bottles you don’t want to annoy people by turning away their donations of dead televisions and newspapers. I’m not sure what you’re thinking of in the way of incentives, but a good source for little crafty things would be Girl Scout leaders. They might even be willing to put their girls to work making things if you provide the materials. Anyway, good luck on your event!

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Few possibilities

Faraday cage wallet could be interesting or even phone cages using some creativity you can even add some candy wrappers.
Basic instructions below at wired.

Paint chip whimsy can be book marks,window decor or doorway chains( connect with paperclips for fun make them colored clips)
Use a hole punch for nice even clean cuts. Put 2 back to back add nice piece of cord and a piece of hardware to put on ceiling fans or light pulls.

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There are a number of recycled craft ideas.
1. Using plastic shopping bags to crochet into door mats,
2. Using old cotton shirts, cut into strips and crocheting into rugs,
3. Pop can tabs to make purses and totes,
4. Large plastic pop bottles to turn into bird feeders,
5. Old forks and spoons hung to make windchimes
6. Using egg cartons for kids crafts like caterpillars, bugs, etc.
7. Taking paper shopping bags and turning them into masks,
8. Unravellling an old sweater to make scarves, mittens, and hats.

Google any of the above and you will find the instructions.

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Here’s a very simple tutorial on turning an old t-shirt into a shopping bag.
Http://wildonionstudio.wordpress.com/2008/06/01/tee-bags-a-tutorial-to-recycle-a-tee-shirt-into-a-shopping-bag/
Here’s one on making a headband from a t-shirt.
Http://indigo-blue-designs.blogspot.com/2009/10/recycled-t-shirt-in-headbands.html
If you’re feeling daring, here’s a video showing how to make a bikini from an old t-shirt (lots of other cool recycled clothing projects at this site, too).
Http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Recycle-an-old-t-shirt-into-a-Sexy-Bikini-30426223
Good luck with your project – hope this is what you were looking for!

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The knitiign ideas are good 😉 There are websites about recycled crafts too:

http://recycledcrafts.craftgossip.com/

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

http://www.makingfriends.com/recycle.htm

http://www.freekidscrafts.com/recycled_crafts-t27.html

I am sure you will find something at one of these sites 🙂

You can also use recycled materials to make your own greeting cards. Here’s a list of recyclables I put together for people to consider as card making or scrap booking materials:

http://www.papercraftcentral.com/recyclable-products.html

Have fun!

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I know of some guys in Haiti who used an oil drum and cut it up, beat the metal flat and sculpted a tray and table from it. Very nice work.

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There are a ton!
-Decoupage from old magazines and greeting cards
-Scrapbooking using recycled materials
-Knitting and crochet using reclaimed yarn unraveled from old sweaters
-Sewing with fabric from old clothes
-Creating candles from old candle stubs

Is that enough?

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You could make little notebooks out of paper that would usually get tossed, like old printouts that only have writing on one side, or paper bags. Then you could use unique stuff for the cover, like old floppy disks.

Alternatively, have you noticed how, at the end of the year, perfectly good lunch boxes, stretchy book covers, locker shelves, binders, etc, end up in the garbage? Maybe you could do something with that, if this is a yearly project.

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You can do a lot of fun stuff with bottles, both plastic and glass bottles. You can use recycled cloth and yarn and paper to dress them up and make them into little people. I once made a fish out of a blue plastic dish detergent bottle. You can paint glass jars to make them into decorative containers. Glass bottles also make great holders for candles. You can also use cans to make recycled crafts. One fun craft I did was to make a Santa Claus out of a tin can. But you can make anything you like with your discarded bottles and cans, for any occasion or no occasion. Just use your creativity, and if you have kids, get them involved.

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You can use heaps of things again in paper crafting. I use clothing tags on my scrapbook pages and cards. I also cut out pictures from tissue boxes and use them as images for cards. The other day I cut down some Coke cans (washed, of course) and put them through my Big Shot to cut some tin leaves from them, which I then put on a card. I recycle ribbons and bows from presents and packaging. There is so much you can do with recycled products!

Here’s a page I wrote about recycling for papercrafting:

http://www.papercraftcentral.com/recyclable-products.html

I hope the list helps but if you look further around the site, you will see more things I have made from recyclables 🙂

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My husband and I run our city’s dropoff Recycling Center and are in the process of starting Curbside Recycling in our town, so this question interested me.

I visited the Waste Management website to acquaint myself with their mailable Recycling Kits. Apparently you can recycle, by mail or Fedex, items such as CFL bulbs, batteries, and single-stream (plastic/aluminum/tin/cardboard/etc)https://www.thinkgreenfromhome.com/BottlesCansAndPaper.cfm.

My main objection to this practice would be the expense; for example, $49.95 for the Single Stream Recycling Kit. A box of this dimension would probably not hold more than 2 weeks worth of recyclables for an average family of 3-4 people.

Visit http://earth911.com/ to look for recycling options near you. There may be a center that will accept your recyclables free of charge. Since the centers themselves post the information, always call the centers to make sure their information is current.

You don’t mention why curbside recycling is no longer available, and whether you live in an urban, suburban, or rural area. Sometimes if enough residents contact their elected city officials to express displeasure about discontinuing a service (such as recycling), the elected city officials may consider reinstating the service.

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Rub a recycling bin all over your face.

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Recycling is nothing but rehabilitating the use of old and used items by redoing. E.g., plastics. Melt again and cast and reuse.
Similary waste and thrown of materials such as tins and cans also can be recycled by reproducing useful materials from them.
Drain water is treated and recycled for use. Oil from drains of industries are stored and reclailmed and used after mixing up chemcials to get back the qualities required.
In all the cases, either for lesser important uses or for the same use itself can be had, depending upon the qualilty of recycled product. Thus waste othewise thrown out can be recycled, by duly segregating them for a particular recycling use, known as waste management. E.g. Plastics. Papers, steel and ferrous items. Non-ferrous metals, acids, rubber etc. Segregated for recycling.
VR

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Stop-motion videos are pretty fun. Some people in my dorm did a recycling project where they took the trash from the dorm over the weekend, and sorted out all of the trash from the recycled goods, and built a sculpture with all of the recyclable materials. Building off that idea, what if you made a stop-motion video of all of the recyclable materials sorting themselves out of the trash can, and crawling over to a recycle bin, or doing something else humorous. Just use the video camera to take one frame at a time and move the cans/paper just a tiny bit every frame. It would be funny, entertaining but it would make an impact when people see how much recyclable stuff gets thrown away (especially on the weekends when people dump all their beer)

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We cannot put in glass! So you need to call them and ask. They also have a website, but if you can find their recycle list on there, congratulations. It took me awhile!!!! Each state or locale will be different.

Basically what we put in is:

aluminium, steel cans, plastic with recycle numbers 1-7 (on the bottom of the container), newspaper, paper such as junk mail/office paper.

We cannot put in garbage, plastic bags or glass.

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Recycle center is the best option

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Some where near a Port as you will probably be exporting your metal to China once you have collected 25 tonnes. I would assume you would need a licence, but I don’t know Morocco licensing laws.

You will need to buy equipment to process the scrap, shears, balers etc These can cost many 100’s of thousands of Pounds.

Http://www.just-recycling.com/machinery-for-sale-c144.html

Bright Copper Wire is worth over £5000 per tonne, Aluminium £1000+ China pays very quickly, you should get payment on production of your Bills Of Laden which is about 2 weeks after the ship has left Port on it’s final destination. But you will probably need £250k+ cash to start buying.

I have only skirted round the edge of what you need to do, and I am sure that there will already be Scrap men in Morocco so you will need to do a lot more research. Good luck if you do try it

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Not always. That’s why you hear the phrase, “Reduce, reuse, recycle” You should be focusing your efforts in that order, as that is the order of least to most resource intensive. Recycling is not the environmental cure-all, but it is usually better than simply disposing of certain wastes.

Most recycling activities would not be undertaken if they were not economically feasible. If recycling aluminum was not economically feasible, you would not get any money for cans. Some recycling activities that are not feasible, but are mandated are items such as used automotive components, like tires and batteries. While there are components that can be recycled, it is costly to recover these materials, making them difficult to be economically viable.

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Where I live, they actually dump it all out on a warehouse floor and hand-sort it. I was told so by an employee.

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Go to www.earth911.org.

If you put in your zip & the name of the item,you’ll get a list of centers in your area.

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If you only have a hundred pounds or less, at best don’t expect much at all. If you have over a thousand pounds, it depends on the buyer.

Most cardboard recycling centers are looking for large quantities that are devoid of staples, tape and other contaminants. When you get a few thousand pounds accumulated, then it becomes worth something.

You may find specific buyers here:
http://www.resourcerecyclingmagazine.com’
http://www.wastenews.com

You can also contact your local unit of governments’ solid waste coordinator to find out if they have some contact information. That would be your city or county depending if you live in town or not.

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Simple, for best price separate cans (no need to smash), plastic bottles
and glass bottles. You do not have to separate, but will not get as much.
Take them to recycle locations indicated below.
Best utilization of donations is Salvation Army, with minimal administrative costs, of Father Joe’s, also below.

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Avoid the obivous: How much can be saved (money, environment, society, etc) and take a different approach. You might: Compare time it takes for different things to decompose; compare how much litter is generated by the different items (soda cans, plastic bottles, paper towels, newspapers, beer cans or bottles, cans from food items (metal), electronics, wood or grass debris, litter box “remains”, etc); do a history of recycling, ending with the history of your city’s recycling program; or. A totally off-the-wall paper on recycling of the future.

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Go to www.earth911.org to find local recycle centers.

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I think you would go to one of the local art or antique dealers in the area.

Here’s a link to some of our local dealers here in San Diego:
http://sandiego.merchantamerica.com/directory/Stores_and_Shopping/Antique_Stores/

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Take it to the landfill…Miramar and Santee landfills take them and will give you cash for them

The Miramar landfill is off the 52.

Depending where you are coming from:

Take the 163 to the 52 W, Exit Convoy. It’ll be to the RIGHT.
OR
Take the 805 South to the 52 East, Exit Convoy, Turn LEFT.

The Santee landfill is also off the 52 but further EAST.

52 East, Exit Mass blvd.. Turn LEFT at the light off the freeway, Turn LEFT at SECOND light. You’ll see it.

Good luck 🙂

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This website is great, it will tell you if their are any locations near you for your particular item.

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There is supposed to be a Community Recycling Center at Rancho Bernardo Community Park on Bernardo Center Drive (18000 block, near the I-15)

A lot of Von’s stores have a recycle center, the one on Poway Rd does, not sure if the one in RB does.

You could also donate your recyclables to a community group like the RB/Poway Boy Scouts (Troop 668), the kids get recycle accounts and use the money for summer camp, trips and community projects.

There’s also local churches and other community groups that will pick up recyclables for fund raisers, may even be tax-deductible…

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I have seen garbage cans in schools , that are not used at all , kids just trow stuff outside it for the fun of it , and adults should not be blamed for kids irresponsibility , yes recycling bins are the hell of a good idea to teach our younger generation that stuff can be reused and that we all can help our environment .
Also i believe that environmentalists should come personally to schools and have a talk about what is going on with global warming and other issues so that they gain awareness of what is really going on and do something about it!

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My recycling bin…..

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Unfortunately, much of the public recycling does not get recycled. It is too tough to keep impurities out (especially when many people still throw garbage into them).

I am not embarrassed by my strong belief in recycling. I will reach into a stranger’s garbage to sort out obvious plastic, glass, and cans. I have been known to empty a badly loaded bin completely and sort it from scratch.

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Go Redwings is pretty close

It is mostly hand sorted by laborers in a big smelly place called a recycling center. They also use centrifuges and electromagnets in the process. There is no need to clean cans or jars, just scrape what you can out. A food residue is not big deal at all.

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Garbage bin. Shoes are a mix of different materials that makes them very hard to recycle. Your local recycling depot will just end up putting them in the trash. It takes more effort on their part, which in turn makes recycling more expensive and less financially sustainable.

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You could try asking other recycling companies what they do with them.

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What size?
Like a container?
Then it’s “cassonetto”
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassonetto

or smaller? Would be “pattumiera” (slang) or more “scientific” and general:
contenitore

Recycling is “riciclaggio” or in general it’s “raccolta differenziata”

recycling bin:
cassonetto della raccolta differenziata
or contenitore della raccolta differenziata

garbage bin: cassonetto RSU (rifiuti solidi urbani)
or cassonetto/contenitore dei rifiuti

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccolta_differenziata

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Yeah one person said chain and lock that would work lol,but take all of the air out of the bottlles and then put them in say a trash bag and keep it in say ur garage if you have one then take the bag out to the truck and get the bag back from them so you can REUSE it to save some money on bags to

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I’ve never had my garbage hauled away using tax dollars. Currently I have to hire a private company to do it. In virtually every other place that I’ve lived, I either paid a private company or a public utility for trash and garbage disposal. There may be some places where it’s done with tax dollars, but I’ve never lived in one.

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There are actually recycling stations that give you full value. They are machines into which you put the uncrushed cans, bottles or plastic. I take a stool and let the kids put the items into the machine one by one. The machine spits out a ticket which is then redeemed for cash. I let the kids have the proceeds, which has encouraged them to police the neighborhood.

I used to take my stuff in to a big recycling center, but like you, I did not receive full value. You just need to call around to find who does give full value and then make sure you have saved up enough of the recyclables to make the trip worthwhile.

Www.earth911.org should get you a list of local recyclers.

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Hi there,
Usually your local recycling center will accept all types of plastic. The phone book will provide a number and you can always call ahead before you go to find out what’s accepted. The number’s on the bottom represent the type of plastic- so what’s it’s made with basically- #1 and #2 are the most common plastics to recycle the other #”s are considered to be less common but are harder to recycle- # 4 & 6 are worth quite a bit! Check out my website, where I blog about recycling, environmental issues, natural mothering, going green…etc. Http://www.recycleyourday.com
Hope to eco-chat soon. Good luck. Http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11653.cfm

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I think u need remove your head from your buttox first, california is already much greener than the rest of the country…stop acting like your better than everyone else your choking on your own cloud of smugness.

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None that I know of, the difference between tin and aluminum cans is that the tin cans will break down very quickly.

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They are both worth the same amount. In California they go by the size of the container. Containers under 24oz are worth 5 cents, 24oz and up 10 cents.

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Go to www.earth911.org, they can help you locate local recycle centers, there should be contact info so you can call and see what the various rates are.

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Actually, the CRV is 5¢ each container under 24 ounces and 10¢ for each container 24 ounces or greater.
You have the right to have your CRV bottles counted rather than weighed IF you bring in fewer than 50 bottles.
If you think you’ve been cheated you can file a complain with the California Dept. Of Conservation, Division of Recycling. Here is the website:. Http://www.consrv.ca.gov:80/dor/Pages/cc.aspx

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Have a physical center open and ready to receive incoming items.
Use intenet as your media of publicity. Its cheap and effective.
Set up your own webpage, talking about recycling and your business in that webpage. You don’t need many page, 5 pages is more than enough. Remember to get a nice domain name that your clients and prospects can remember easily.
Preferbly, your webpage can also help you to make money at the same time like the system in domain registeration of this site:

http://www.website.ws/powercontrol
Try

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Most auto store will do this i know auto-zone and advance auto takes them not sure of to many places in ca but most part store will recycle them

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Yes!
They won a nation wide recycling competition for the 2nd year in a row.

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Having lots of material may make it easier.

Aluminum should be easiest, any scrap metal dealer should be happy to take it if he does not have to pay.
Http://www.google.com/search?q=Tulsa+metals

Plastic might go to a refinery or chemical company.

Pure newspaper might go to a paper company or a composting operation.

Organic material (bannana peels, etc.) can also compost.

Other burnable material *might* be burned for power by your local power company, or used for biogas.

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I struggled with this at my university.
The best thing you can do is make sure there is a clearly marked recycling receptacle next to EVERY garbage can. Maybe not in the bathroom, but garbage and recycling cans should be considered a single unit.
If people have to walk any further to recycle something, they simply wont do it. Or, they will put all their trash into the recycling.
You may want to contact your local waste/recycling company to see if they would sponsor your school. They usually have access to a lot of garbage cans, stickers, and lables that can be used to help promote recycling.
Otherwise, it is likely that your school has a lot of extra garbage cans around that could be painted or clearly marked in a way that they would look differently. It is always important to have a simple label of some kind which graphically shows what is acceptable recycling material, since most students still do not know. I.e. Glass bottle, Plastic bottle or cup, papers, cardboard.

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You could make a kind of yard sale !!!
Ask kids to bring old stuff that they don’t want anymore, and make like this huuuge garage sale !
If there’s a business class in your school, you can ask them to make some advertising ! Ask your cooking class to bake some pastries and make refreshments that you can sell at the same time !

That way, you can get rig of your old junk and make money too! If your school is really dedicated, you can even throw in some car washes ! LOL

You can also give a ticket with a number to anybody that buys anything, and you can have like a raffle for an item of the yard sale !

Or, if this is too much and you don’t have a lot of time, just stick with a regular yard sale 😉

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A lot of states have recycling programs that will donate bins for free to schools. Might want to look into that also.

Here’s some sites that sell recycling bins that i’ve pulled off yahoo search:

http://www.napcor.com/bins.htm
http://www.office1000.com/discount/recycling-bins.html
http://www.recyclingbin.com/
http://www.restockit.com/Recycling-Trash-Cans-and-Containers.html

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You can get plastic bags which bio-degrade which will help, you could also collect your recycled waste in another bin and take it to your local recycling station.

Other options include purchasing a compost bin or maybe even another recycling bin.

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Plastic water bottles have no material value that is worth recycling, the only reason they are is because government subsidizes the cost to do so. If something has a raw material value you will see private companies paying money for it, such as scrap metal.

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It depends on where you are. Many towns do subsidize recycling, especially now that recycled materials are becoming more and more of a commodity, and if your town doesn’t cover the costs, there are some companies and non-profits who might take compost off your hands.

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I go to a public school and we didnt have recycling bins at my school.
But there are ways simple and easy !

What you should do is gather card board boxes and just decorate them and make sure people can see that they are for recycling.
Be sure to locate most of them in regularly used hallways so that people will find it less difficult to get to one.
And when the time comes for the recyling man to come by at your school to make it less difficult for he/she to gather all the bins have vollunteers gather all the recycling bins at one place to make it simple for the recycling person to gather up .
Well hope it worls out for you : ]
– estefani.

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Energy.

At each level 90% of the energy is lost. Plants absorb the energy from the sun.

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Humans make each cycle fun!

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..Only the positive plates are recycled, everything else is new, you can not tell the difference. I does not matter anyway

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YES TO ALL ASPECTS

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See below.

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Probably.. The problem comes where it may cost too much or cause other problems that may make not feasible to make the item completely recyclable.

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Sorting

The unwanted glass needs to be sorted by their colors. This is because different chemicals need to be added to different colored waste glass to produce recycled glass of the desired color.

Processing: Producing glass cullet

After the sorting stage, the next stage in the glass recycle process involves crushing and grinding the waste glass into tiny pieces. This finely crushed glass pieces are referred to as cullet.
Processing: Making recycled glass products

In the last stage of the glass recycling process, the recycled glass, colored or clear, is then molded into the various products and sold in the markets.

Other facts about recycling glass

An interesting point about the glass recycling process is that glass can be recycled as many times as required, without any deterioration in quality.

What makes glass recycling even more important is that glass never decomposes. If disposed of in the landfills and incinerators, they will contribute substantially to pollution. Hence, it is particularly to send your unwanted glass ware for recycling.

Go to the source web site for all the facts!! 🙂

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Energy flows and is not recycled.

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Assuming we’re talking about a terrestrial environment, then one of these two. Better check your text.
The ocean is involved.
Most water is chemically unchanged throughout the cycle.

If I had to pick one, I’d pick
the ocean is involved.
This isn’t a really great answer since the ocean is also involved in the phosphorus cycle.

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If we’re not talking about strictly terrestrial environments, then this one:
most water is chemically unchanged throughout the cycle.
After all, marine environments occupy most of the biosphere. LOL.

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Go to www.earth911.com to find a local recycle center for any item.

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Hospitals often sell their hazardous waste (including needles) to REPUTABLE companies who will recycle the components. This is almost always done by explicitly detailed contracts.

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We should absolutely promote electronic waste recycling. Here’s why:

–Electronics can contain toxic chemicals like lead, mercury, and cadmium. (For example, old CRT TVs and computer monitors can contain up to 8 pounds of lead.)
–If electronics end up in landfills, it can leak toxic chemicals into our air, land, and water. For an example, look up Guiyu, China.
–On a similar note, we should never export electronics to foreign nations. It consumes more energy and a lot of that e-waste ends up in landfills.
–We need some sort of universal bill for electronics disposal in the U.S. As it is right now, only about half of the states have e-waste laws.

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No, there are no subsidies. The only incentive is on lower (landfill) tax.

This is an oversight in my mind, however, being green leads to efficiency savings throughout an organisation.

Minimising waste is the key

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Where and which country, correct adres pls?

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Depending where you are Free Geek is cool.

“FREE GEEK is a 501(c)(3) not for profit community organization that recycles used technology to provide computers, education, internet access and job skills training to those in need in exchange for community service.”

Also try: Earth911
http://earth911.com/electronics/computers/computer-recycling-and-reuse/

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The responsibility for all the excess packaging also falls on the shoulders of the consumers. Manufacturers are responding to market demand. As we want cheaper food that is quicker to prepare and can sit on a shelf or in a freezer for years on end it requires more packaging. I avoid excess packaging as much as possible, it did require changing my shopping habits. I buy fresh bread from the bakery, fresh produce from the farmers market and few processed foods. We are eating healthier and producing a fraction of the waste.

I also write to some of my favorite brands and let them know I want recycled content in packaging and reduced packaging.

There is a law that was put into place in the 70’s, but it is rarely enforced due to lack of funding for oversight. Look for the resource conservation and recovery act.

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Contractors bid to handle waste at recycling depots. They calculate the amount and that is deducted from what they pay for the privilege, thus councils argue, keeping costs down to benefit taxpayers. That’s rubbish, of course.

There’s money to be made – a lot of money. At one recycling centre (tip) near here, the contractor parades round with his fat money-belt. He isn’t able to conceal his smirk.

The profits from waste should ALL be used to benefit the local community – we paid for it, so that’s only fair.

Plastics recycling = Catastrophic, expensive, daily mistakes world-wide!!! Appalling wastage / oversights. Unforgivable.

Glad you’re concerned / interested. That’s reassuring.

Full details here: http://www.the-alternative.org.uk
See: Chapter 9: Waste

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Because styrofoam is technically recyclable. It’s a type of plastic.

However, it’s usually considered unrecyclable because, well, it’s hard to find people that will recycle it! It’s not cost effective (recycling centers are still businesses) and takes a lot of energy to recycle.

If you can, find out if anyone in your area will take them.

If not, well, take-out boxes are very good for plant drainage.

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No – a lot of plastics can’t be recycled because they contain dyes and other additives that can’t be removed from the plastic polymer. Adding plastics that can’t be recycled to your recyclables makes a lot of trouble for those trying to sort – meaning increased manpower and increased cost to recycle. (and not all plastics that DO have the recycling symbol can be recycled in your area, e.g. NYC will recycle bottles made of #1, but not take out containers due to the WAY the plastic was formed – blown versus molded). Anyway, the most eco-friendly thing to do is buy a bar of glycerin (vegetable based) soap which foams up just as well on your pouff and doesn’t have a bottle, and write Suave an email telling them why you won’t use their body wash anymore. 🙂

p.s. Vegetable based soaps are better anyway – the others contain phthalates and are PETROLEUM based which means that you’re diverting oil from energy to soap – imagine how much cheaper oil would be if we all used vegetable based shampoos, dish soap, laundry detergent, etc!

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without the spaces after the & and before the ;

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It’s a question for the recycling companies. Each company has its own process to sort out the recycled materials collected. Unfortunately, many do not provide enough information of “What to” and “What not to” for the customers.

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Www.cafepress.com

http://www.zazzle.com/

You can make your own (although I would imagine that they probably have some already made)

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The three arrows mean Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. 🙂 but names for them are Recycled, Recyclable…

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Very generally speaking, the items you mention are not recyclable. The difficulty would be that the facility that ends up with your recyclables would not be able to tell what the items are made of, so they would have to discard them.

Sandwich baggies are usually made with #4 plastics, which many recycling facilities do not accept. I’m not sure what the shredded cheese bags are made of; different manufacturers would use different types of plastics, but the cheese bags may also be #4’s.

At my Recycling Center, we do not accept food wrappers or baggies for that very reason.

Unfortunately, not everything is recyclable. But bless you for trying!

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Generally recyclables are separated and not trash, so i’d say u’re fine.