Your Questions About Recycling

The Expert answers:

Recycling paper and cans is a great idea, it saves rescources, and requires less energy(lower fuel prices) also allows for more trees and plantable land to be used instead of mining and deforestation.

But.. Recycling is costly for pickup so you use energy to save energy, like putting a bandaid over an infected wound. Mining and deforestation creates jobs, bringing money into the economy. Also, convinience becomes an issue, who wants to go and seperate garbage, when you can just throw it away?

Hope that helps

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Something to do with recycling used materials rather than just lifting some earth and sweeping our garbage under it.

Creating products out of recycled materials.

Anything that encourages industry to use more easily biodegradable materials and eco-friendly systems and technologies.

Organic gardening or farming.

Parks related jobs.

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One area you can look into is Non-Profit organizations, and public sector work. My job is working for a government agency that promotes, preserves and works to build healthy and natural water and land resources in this area. My job is not a “green” job, as it were, but it supports all of the green jobs in the organization. The organization is a “green” focused local government agency.

I recommend checking out your local government agencies…find out their mission statement and see if they fit into your beliefs. Not all government agencies operate this way, but several do, especially as the healthy environment and resources are becoming more scarce.

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I can tell you about Recycling,it reduces water pollution – by reducing the amount of waste that gets dumped into the rivers, lakes and streams. Recycling reduces the need for landfills – by reducing the massive amount of waste that people produce each day. Recycling makes more jobs and increases economic development – by providing more opportunities for people.

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Besides babysitting jobs, you can market yourself to family friends, neighbors, members of your family’s church/religious group by offering to do:
* yard/garden chores (weeding, planting flowers, trimming bushes, mowing the lawn)
* dog walking and pet care when people are out of town
* collect aluminum cans that people save for you (instead of putting them in recycling) and sell them to an aluminum recycling business – the project will gain you some money but won’t be terribly lucrative – earn much money)
* run errands for elderly and disabled people
* ask your parents if you can hold a garage/yard sale – clear out unused items in your home – and adk keep all the profits
* if you have computer skills – market yourself to clean up spyware/viruses/etc. From computers, install and update software, etc.

You can decide if any jobs you would take on would be paid hourly or by the job and quote your prices, too.

This online article gives some good info on jobs for teens under 15 years old, along with links to more info:
* http://www.quintcareers.com/jobs_for_teens.html

This is the link to another good online article from the well-respected personal finance web site Motley Fool:
* http://www.fool.com/teens/teens02.htm

As others have answered, in most states teens must be at least 16 years old to obtain a permit to work in a regular business (even a fast food restaurant.)
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This web page gives ideas on how to get the word out (market yourself) regarding the jobs you may want to do:
* http://epiclaunch.com/the-self-employed-teenager/

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It re-uses about 30% total of what is put into a recycling facility, everything else is burned up and does whatever the hippies think smoke does. It makes some jobs which is okay, but it’s only the poor mexican jobs that nobody really wants. Economically, it’s a waste, and it usually costs more money than the recycled products’ values equal to. (say they spent 10,000$ recycling papers, then $5,000 worth of recycled paper is what they get back, that’s why recycled products are so expensive)

they overprice recycled paper because its so expensive to make it (that’s how they make a profit)

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Why don’t you get a SSN?

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It appears right now that the top priority is meeting the rent unless you have options i.e. Staying with family etc. Therefore the recommended action is taking the job at the recycling plant. Did the manager at Ford state there would be a open position in three to six months? In this hard economy, where millions of talented, educated and skilled/experience are out of work, he should grab the permanent position making more money, union or not. A recycling plant is not going out of business any time soon. Good Luck!!

The Expert answers:

Advantages:

— Recycling helps to limit the amount of glass, paper and plastic that must be produced. This will end with less garbage in landfills because it’s being reused. Currently, 100% of all refuse is recycled.
— Adds jobs to the economy;
— Slows the consuming of natural resources;
— Makes people environmentally aware;
— Promotes scientific advancements in recyclable and biodegradable materials;
— Makes governments and businesses choose programs and apply policies in consideration of preserving and respecting the environment.

Disadvantages:

— seperate factories must be set up for the recycling of materials, and this will just cause more pollution and energy consumption for transport, sorting, cleaning and storage;
— Twice as many trucks on the road : those collecting garbage and those collecting recycled goods;
— Pollutants produced by the recycling process itself, including chemical stews when breaking down different products;
— Recycling is not cost-efficient and annually results in a net loss It costs $50-60 to landfill a ton versus $150+/- to recycle a ton; .
–Only the recycling of aluminium really makes any money. Reclaiming metals is feasible and fairly easy, whereas plastics and paper are expensive, wasteful and overly difficult;
—Adds to taxes, and is a tax subsidy costing 8 billion a year in the USA alone;
— Creation of low-quality jobs. Jobs include sifting through garbage to separate it, dealing with the toxins from the breakdown process, and other manual-intensive labor tasks;
— A considerable percentage of items marked as recyclable end up trashed or burned anyway due to poor quality, contaminants, lack of resources able to handle that item in a specific region or recycling installation, etc.;

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