Your Questions About Recycling

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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.