Your Questions About Recycling
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Linda asks…
Recycling and being charged?
I live in a small town and the town charges for recycling, however the recycling truck hardly ever shows up, and we have to call them days after supposed pick up. Paper and cardboard fly all over, and we get charged for pick up. The pick up days are supposed to be garbage days, but the recycyling truck rarely shows up. We have to wash out cans or course, and pack our paper or cardboard evenly.
We get charged for this NON service. I am getting real ticked, and am thinking of getting a petition signed by my neighbors and friends. Why be charged for something that we actually have to work a bit harder for, and it doesn’t happen? I’d rather toss it all in the trash, that we also pay for.
Your thoughts?
The Expert answers:
Darn right you should get up a petition. Deliver it to your local political representative: mayor, councilman, whatever. Also, make phone calls, get you neighbors to make phone calls. Bring it up at council meetings. Raise a stink. Contact people in other parts of town, see if they’re having problems. Get everybody on the bandwagon. Fight the power.
Maria asks…
How is an animal cell compared to a modern city?
Im doing a project for Lab Biology that requires me to pick 10 animal cell organelles and compare them to the parts of a city. So far I got these nine organelles done:
Mitochondria: Power Plant
Nucleus: City Hall
Ribosomes: Restaurants and Supermarkets
Cell Membrane: city borders
Vacuole: storage warehouse
Golgi Body: post office
Lysosome: garbage and recycling trucks
Endoplasmic Reticulum: highway
Cytoplasm: people
I need one more comparison. If something should be changed, can you tell me? Thanks.
The Expert answers:
If I may suggest a few changes…I would change the Endoplasmic Reticulum to Construction Crew and the Cytoplasm as the Highway.
For your tenth the Nucleolus could be considered the Legislature of a City
Sandy asks…
From what website can I order a new Blue Recycle Bin in Los Angeles?
My Blue recycle bin was damaged by the garbage truck and I need to know where I order it from?
The Expert answers:
Try reading tis hope it helps
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/emeraldcity/recycle/
Lisa asks…
This question is for me to research: If a child the age of five is?
so focused on garbage trucks. How they work? Talks all day about garbage trucks waits by window for garbage truck on garbage day. Any garbage takes to can or recycle bin. Need a start in researching this. Is this good or bad or just a phase should we be concerned? Already talks about being a garbage man.
The Expert answers:
At that age, my younger son was fascinated with cement trucks. He would count the number of cement trucks he saw while we were driving around. It was hilarious! We’d get home and he’d say “Mommy! I saw 7 cement trucks on the way home!” Then he’d tell me what they all looked like.
My opinion is that kids see things that interest them, and sometimes they won’t “let go” of it until they understand every little detail about it. A week from now it’ll be something else.
David asks…
Is recycling really saving any money? Is it really saving our Planet?
I take my plastic bottles, cardboard, and newspaper down to the city recycling place. This means I am burning gas. I usually go when I have to travel in that direction because I believe burning gas just for saving plastic evens the score. Of course, the large garbage style trucks that empty the dumpsters suck a lot of fuel. And, there is the attendant with her salary, office with heating and air, and her golf cart. Then I discover when I take my metals to place that pays for metal, the city delivers its plastic there. The employee told me the city pays them to take the plastic.
So, to sum it up, the city is paying for fuel, vehicle maintenance, electric and natural gas consumption, employee wages, and has to pay someone to take their plastic. How can this be saving the city any money. As for saving our planet, we burn all these fuels so we don’t have to fill a landfill. Like I said, it appears we are just evening the score. What are your thoughts?
The Expert answers:
Great responses here. I just want to add that recycling is only the last option. You know, I stopped drinking soda not because of the sugar, but because the discarded bottles disgusted me. This is 10 years ago now. My goal was then turned to reduce waste, both from the trash and recycling bins we have. The result was that I started drinking more filtered water and tea, and also started preparing more foods from scratch, like fresh vegetables and fruits. This had a strong effect in our lives and helped us see the big picture. We still have a small bag of waste and half a bin of recyclables a week, but the compost we use in the yard has greatly reduced our water consumption in the summer and of course, we never buy top soil anymore, or potted plants for that matter. My point is recycling is just a small remediation point for the waste we produce, but the core point is to live in sustainable ways. This in turn will reduce waste and the recycling of items that were never needed in the first place.
Donna asks…
can i please get some ideas to “retell” this children’s book?
i have to “retell” a children’s book. i picked the very hungry caterpillar. but instead im doing “the very hungry garbage truck” where he will eat more and more at each house. and the the end of his trip, he will go into the shop and be “upgraded” to a recycling truck.
i have the very broad layout for it.. i just need different ways to tell “his eating habits” for each day of the week. any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated! thanks 🙂
The Expert answers:
Make it a days of the week story like the original. Then on the last day he eats a plethora of unhealthy gross type of garbage. Spoiled food, broken furniture, drippy stuff, have fun with this
The caterpillar eats a nice green leaf, so maybe the garbage truck could eat some green waste.
This story would be funny to me because I know the book so well. I hope your readers will be too.
Michael asks…
Carbon Emisions?
How much carbon dioxide is released from heavy, big, diesel run vehicles. Like A garbage or recycling truck?
The Expert answers:
When burnt, diesel fuel releases about 10 kg of CO2 per gallon. A big truck probably gets aobut 10 miles per gallon, so it would release 1 kg of CO2 per mile.
In comparison, when burning one gallon of petrol you put out about 8.7 kg of CO2. With an average of 25 miles per gallon that would make 350 grams per mile.
Mandy asks…
What would you do if you woke up inside a Garbage Dumpter as it was being lifted into a Waste Compactor Truck?
About to be emptited into the back where you will be crushed, packed and shredded before being Recycled?
The Expert answers:
Well, dang- hopefully have time to jump out before i got dumped in! Hoping i jump far enuf to miss the compacter truck, lol…
Richard asks…
I wanna make some art with old beer bottles cheaply, any project ideas?
what can I do? I dont have a kiln to melt or fuse them so thats out of the question, I dont have a welding machine, or a large torch.. so making anything with those is out…
Ive got most other tools… I just drink alot of beer, and I am looking for some way to make something cool with the remains instead of putting them out on the curb for the garbage truck(no recycling and im to busy/lazy as well to take them to a center)
thanks!
The Expert answers:
I saw this picture of an amazing building made out of bottles you cement them in to the walls.YOu could star off with a hut – somewhere to drink in the evenings.
Http://www.agilitynut.com/h/otherbh.html
I have also seen concrete paths embellished with bottle bottoms- saves on concrete. And you could make furniture out of the crates.
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