Your Questions About Recycling

I don’t believe in Global Warming?

As far as I see it the climate has always been changing, fact. It’s just happening faster now than ever before, but then again things do get faster with time, it use to take four days to get to London, now it takes two hours (I know, crappy reasoning but still).
I find it really annoying how world leaders travel in private jets and limos to the other side of the world and surmise the problem is us not recycling enough. And plus they beat it into you a school, seriously, which just makes us hate it more, like the Beatles, remember they over taught that and people learnt to hate it. Who thinks that to punish people we should make them go from far northern Scotland to Dead End, on PUBLIC TRANSPORT!! Bump, bump, bum. Yeah, make the world leaders use public transport, that’ll teach them. What was the point of this anyway? Sorry just having a bit of a rant, I’m pissed off with the economy and how they won’t start fixing everything till bloody 2012, what’s wrong with starting to fix it now when we need it? Who thought it was stupid a few months back when they thought of giving free counselling to people who have lost their jobs in the recession instead of stopping people losing their jobs. Seriously, the government is going down the shitter. Sorry, their wasn’t much point to that, it’s just that I’m frustrated with the world, and I know people will probably disagree with most of what I say, but I don’t give a rat’s ass. Thank you.

ps who likes sushi? I love sushi, sushi is awesome, there isn’t enough sushi bars…

Bye, I’m off to watch Mock The Week.

Do you have any of these qualities if you are a man, please state which ones?

Facts About Men
1. Men like to barbecue. Men will cook if danger is involved.

2. Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They’ve experienced pain and bought jewelry.

3. Marrying a divorced man is ecologically responsible. In a world where there are more women than men, it pays to recycle.

4. Men are very confident people. My husband is so confident that when he watches sports on television, he thinks that if he concentrates he can help his team. If the team is in trouble, he coaches the players from our living room, and if they’re really in trouble, I have to get off the phone in case they call him.

5. Men like phones with lots of buttons. It makes them feel important.

6. Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

7. All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun.

8. A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.

9. All men hate to hear “We need to talk about our relationship.” These seven words strike fear in the heart of even General Schwarzkopf.

10. Men are sensitive in strange ways. If a man has built a fire and the last log does not burn, he will take it personally.

11. Men have an easier time buying bathing suits. Women have two types: depressing and more depressing. Men have two types: nerdy and not nerdy.

12. Men have higher body temperatures than women. If your heating goes out in winter, I recommend sleeping next to a man. Men are like portable heaters that snore.

13. Women take clothing much more seriously than men. I’ve never seen a man walk into a party and say “Oh, my God, I’m so embarrassed; get me out of here. There’s another man wearing a black tuxedo.”

14. Most men hate to shop. That’s why the men’s department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

15. If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.

16. If you’re dating a man who you think might be “Mr. Right,” if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies.

17. No man is charming all of the time. Even Cary Grant is on record saying he wished he could be Cary Grant.

18. When four or more men get together, they talk about sports.

19. When four or more women get together, they talk about men.

20. Men are less sentimental than women. No man has ever seen the movie THE WAY WE WERE twice, voluntarily.

21. Most women are introspective: “Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?” Most men are outrospective: “Did my team win? How’s my car?”

22. If a man says, “I’ll call you,” and he doesn’t, he didn’t forget… he didn’t lose your number… he didn’t die. He just didn’t want to call you.

23. Getting rid of a man without hurting his masculinity is a problem. “Get out” and “I never want to see you again” might sound like a challenge. If you want to get rid of a man, I suggest saying, “I love you… I want to marry you… I want to have your children.” Sometimes they leave skid marks.

24. Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

25. Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause – you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

26. Men forget everything; women remember everything.

27. That’s why men need instant replays in sports. They’ve already forgotten what happened.

Advice for Dad 36 w/ Daughter 15 moving to Seattle. What to avoid. Where to live. ANY info helps, thanx.?

We are originally from the midwest, which is where we currently live. We recently moved back home from the west coast after living there for a year. We were in a small valley and the job situation went bad. We love the west, the healthy life style, the abundance of outdoor activities, the people and the fact that you recycle. We dont know much about life there in WA. but know how your neighbor to the south lives. I feel fortunate to have a daughther who believes that life is an adventure and that you shouldnt “settle” for less than happiness! Any info that you could share would be great…living expense, taxes, schools, college, cost of food/living, apartments, mountain biking, daily life, people…ANYTHING! Thanks!!

I need help with science?

The Recycling Factory (40 points)Name_______________________
NAHS ChemistryPer ____ Date __________
Suppose that you are the new owner of the Owl Recycling Factory and you are looking for business.
An official from the city of Weston, Mr. Jones, tells you that they have a dump truck full of recycled materials that must be physically separated, and they will pay you $5,000 if you can do it. Unfortunately, the job is made more difficult by the fact that someone has ground all of the materials into a fine powder, making it impossible to separate them by hand.
Fortunately, Mr. Smith knows what the materials in the truck are, as well as their densities:
MaterialDensity (g/cm3)
Aluminum cans2.7
Steel cans5.7
Milk jugs0.95
Soda bottles1.4

In your factory, you have the following materials at your disposal:
•A long conveyor belt
•A large tank that can be filled with water
•Another large tank labeled “Concentrated sugar water, density = 1.5 g/cm3”
•Several powerful magnets hanging above the conveyor belt
•Nets for skimming the tanks and scooping material from the bottoms.

Your job: Find a way to separate the four recycled materials. You will need to do this in several steps.
You will have to write a letter to the city official detailing each step of your plan. You must draw pictures/particle diagrams to support each step of your separation.
Scoring: (see attached rubric)
•In letter format, written for a professional audience
•All parts of a letter are included
•Plan of separation will work and is easily understandable
•Plan thoroughly describes what will be separated by each step
•Letter explains why the procedure works
•Letter explains what properties were used to separate the mixture
•Diagrams support each step of the separation
oCan be drawn in letter or added on a separate piece of paper. If added on a separate piece of paper, include reference to the appropriate diagram with labels.
•Work is neatly done
•Correct grammar and spelling is used
•Letter is less than two pages, double spaced
oDiagrams are not included in this two page maximum restriction
•Letter is written in 11-12 point font, Times New Roman (or equivalent font)

This must be your OWN work. See NAHS Science Integrity Policy for further details.
See reverse for Integrity statement. Please sign and return rubric with assignment.

Good luck!

How/what can I do to make people aware/care about the environment?

At my part time job, I work with complete, pardon my french, assholes who won’t recycle their boxes. When I ask them to give me their boxes so I can break them down, they won’t even give them to me. I work in a grocery store, so of course you know we use a fair amount of boxes a day. The produce department is the worst. It alone uses anywhere from 150-400 boxes a day, and they’re all being thrown out. They say stuff like “fuck the earth!” and “I think everyone who cares about the environment should go to hell!” It makes me angry. I want to do something that will get them to see how much we really should care, or at least make them aware of what they are doing is wrong, and hopefully, after some time, some of them will change what they’re doing. I’ve talked to the manager and they tell them they should recycle the boxes, but he doesnt really inforce it, so I don’t think telling the managers/ store managers (I’ve talked to them too, they’ve done nothing) will do anything. So does anyone have any creative ways to show them that we need to do something to help climate change?
🙁 I hate to see that even the places that I work at won’t do anything about recycling. We only recycle cardboard. We use SO much plastic containers that could be recycled, and we don’t. The fact that they don’t strictly inforce the recycling of cardboard drives me insane. I understand that breaking down that many boxes a day is kind time-consuming, but when you dont have much work to do, and you dont have to deal with customers, shouldnt it be mandatory? I have to deal with customers, do my job, I only work 4 hours a day, and i still manage to find time to finish my job, help customers, break down my cardboard AND produce cardboard (depending whos in that night, and if they’ll give it to me or not).

Help anyone?

My idea for the future?

Iv been tinkering away at an idea I had a few years back.

The main problem with society IS society. It worked for a while, but now, with so much technology, we obviously need to rethink the way we all fit together.

My idea is to build a new, entirely twenty-first century city, consisting of huge buildings that fit the entire populous instead of spanning ourselves out in houses and workplaces, and to modernize every aspect of life.

To live in large but few buildings would objectify the need for roads, cars, massive expanses of wood and concrete, and use much less waste, assuming we modernized and reinvented how we recycle and throw away.

It would also offer untold advantages to science, in that all manner of scientific work could be done in close proximity to other scientists. (The main population would be scientists as there would be no more/very little need for trade related jobs.)

The main controversy would be the fact that to make this work, you would have to cap the population

Does anyone else find it hard to waiter?

I don’t mean the actual work itself. I just mean the people: cooks shouting at you, people treating you like you’re stupid or you don’t exist, or otherwise hitting on you and staring at you. Not to mention managers who are threatening to fire you one minute and then having a drink with you the next.

I also find myself wanting to write anonymous letters or start petitions about the amount of waste I see in the kitchen: food going in the bin with plastic and everything else, whereas all these things could be recycled if kept separate. I hate the fact that I work in a place where a constant and unimaginable flow of recyclable rubbish is pumped into a landfill. I thought the UK was moving forward?

I would like to know if anyone else in this position finds certain things are unbearable or depressing at work. I have had many jobs and I didn’t realise this would be the most difficult.
Lari Lee, that is a silly answer. I am very mindful about my impact on the environment and consider it with everything I do. I do not have lights on unnecessarily. And I unplug this computer when not in use. And why would you assume I think my waste is ok and theirs is not?

Imagine how many people don’t ever question their waste, or how many businesses ignorantly propel the destruction of the environment. That’s not even focusing on restaurants alone.

Are you saying it would be better for me to turn a blind eye like everyone else?

What should be the fate of illegal aliens found in the United States?

Most of the illegals from Mexico are poorly educated by American standards. Because of this, they compete for jobs with those Americans who are least able to fend for themselves.

* Because they frequently work under the table and are paid in cash, few pay income taxes, and the businesses that hire them pay no employment taxes. This gives businesses that hire illegals an unfair competitive advantage over those businesses that obey the law.

* Those who do get a regular job, do so with fraudulent identification. This can have dire consequences for those who have their identities stolen. It also provides a path for illegals to get government services they are not entitled to.

* Much of the money earned by illegals is shipped back to their home countries, thus it is not recycled into the U.S. economy where its use would provide jobs for other Americans.

* Even though these illegals send much of their money home, they consume food, shelter, and other amenities in America. Basic economic theory states that when aggregate demand rises in relation to aggregate supply, prices rise.

* Because they dilute the labor pool – again, based on economic theory
– they lower wages for those lower-class Americans who can find work.

* Illegal aliens create a great burden on our healthcare system. With no insurance and little money, they frequently use emergency rooms in place of a primary care physician. Because they are illegal, they are untraceable, and can’t be forced to pay their bills.

* And, worst of all, is the fact that low-level employees do not create jobs, they fill them. That means that for every illegal alien who is working in the United States, one American who desperately needs a job is not.
Mexico keeps a large contingent of its military on its southern border to stop illegal immigration from other countries. Believe it or not, there are populations who see Mexico as an economic powerhouse and would love to live there.

Guatemalans, for instance, can make twice as much money picking coffee in Mexico as they can in their home country. Mexican authorities routinely round them up at gunpoint, hold them overnight and – if they can’t prove they have a right to be in the country – ship them back home.

This might seem a little harsh by American standards,

What do i use for each materials?

An official from the city of Westminister, Mr. Smith, tells you that they have a dump truck full of recycled materials that must be seperated, and they will pay you $5,000 if you can do it. Unfortunetly, the job is made more difficult by the fact that someone has ground all of the materials into a fine, making it impossible to separate them by hand. Fortunetly, Mr. Smith knows what the materials in the truck are, as well as their densities: Aluminum (2.7 g/cm cubed), Steel cans (5.7 g/cm cubed), Milk jugs (0.95 g/cm cubed), and soda bottles (1.4 g/cm cubed).
In your factory, you have the following materials at your disposal: a large conveyor belt, a large tank that can be filled with water, another large tank labled “Concentrated sugar water, density = 1.5 g/cm cubed, several powerful magnets hanging from above the conveyor belt, and several nets for skimming the tanks and scooping materials from the bottom.
Your job: find a way to seperate the four recycled materials.
you will have to write a letter to Mr. Smith what your going to do.