Your Questions About Recycling

how to keep rid of fruit flies?

I have been seeing a lot of fruit flies in my home lately and have not figured out where they were coming from until today. I found out that my three year old was throwing food away where it wasn’t supposed to go. We have recycling bins,2 for plastic and 2 for paper. I found out he was throwing food and any other waste in those containers.
I have cleaned out the bins,took out the trash,and I hope I have eliminated the source. Have I? And how do I prevent future fruit fly outbreaks?
Since I have eliminated the source,will the fruit flies gradually go away with proper trash maintenance? Thank you for any help.
sorry if wrong catagory. Couldn’t find correct catagory.

If we are all politically correct and worry about global?

warming, whyzit that product containers are getting smaller (i.e., liquid soap used to be 12 oz, now 7.5 oz) as the price gets higher? As consumers, we are going to pay the price anyway, so keep the amount larger, thus less waste ends up in landfills! (or needs to be recycled, if you recycle)

which of these 3 ways to help reduce solid wastes/conserve natural resources; of the folling,which one?

-buy in bulk quanties,buy disposable containers,buy new products made from natural resources or
-buy in bulk quanties,buy reuable containers,buy recycled/recyclable containers?

Where can I get earthworms(red wiggler) for Vermiculture in Mumbai?

Worm composting is a method for recycling food waste into a rich, dark, earth-smelling soil. The great advantage of worm composting is that this can be done indoors and outdoors, thus allowing year round composting. It also provides apartment dwellers with a means of composting. In a nutshell, worm compost is made in a container filled with moistened bedding and redworms. Add your food waste for a period of time, and the worms will eventually convert the entire contents into rich compost. But where can I buy/ source these specific worms in Mumbai?

Can you recycle tempered glass?

I have a large cabinet glass cabinet I need to get rid of, it has 2 six foot sheets of tempered glass, the rest is laminate wood that’s falling apart. I know the laminate is destined for the landfill, but I hate to see the glass go to waste. Is there any way to recycle tempered glass?

The local recycling facility only take glass from drinking containers. They say tempered glass melts at the different temperature.
Checked with Habitat’s ReStore, they don’t accept things with commercial applications. Since it’s a retail display case, they won’t take it. Nor just the glass since it’s all scratched.

Guess it’s destined for the landfill after all. It’s a shame recyclers won’t take tempered glass.

Do you hate Leftovers from the Fridge?

I for one am totally against leftovers, left in the fridge. I have all my life.

Growing up, everyone use to tell me that I would get over this, especially when I had kids. Two kids later, I am still very much against it.

Before I got married, my niece came over to live us, and my family. She cooked this massive vat of spaghetti once. She was only feeding four, and we hardly made a dent in it, so after dinner I pick up the vat and throw it right out the backdoor for the dogs to finish off. My niece mouth just stood open in disbelief. She then gets mad and says that was to be her lunch at work all next week. She was floored that I, we, did not believe in keeping leftovers.

So a few weeks go by, and then this same niece starts storing all these recycled butter containers full of crap. I was actually trying to find the butter, and kept finding all this other crap. I get mad, so I open the backdoor, this time inviting the dogs in, to carry off anything in the fridge that is not suppose to be there. All labeled containers had to be that, or it went out the door. My niece comes into the kitchen, and sees the fridge all clean. “Where’s all my food?” I pointed just outside, and all her butter cups were scattered around the backyard. And again, my niece just stood there in disbelief.

Since getting married, our fridge is really clean. My wife tries to put something in there at times, but nothing stays more than a day or so. Most going to the waste basket. I am a little bit more liberal with my kid’s meals for a day or so, but they go to the trash about the same speed. I explained to my wife that I really don’t don’t like anything not eaten, after it had been prepared, to be stored for later eating.

She still tries to keep some food here and there, and it drives me crazy. Does leftovers in the fridge bother you?

Cans, bins and tetra-pak disposal: which is the appropriate rubbish bin for them in Nederland?

Hello,

I have moved to Netherlands recently but I still didn’t find any rubbish bin for recycling metal disposal: cans, bins, tetra-paks…
I live in Haarlemmemeer and at the recycling points there are containers for glass, for paper and for plastic. I also found some other rubbish bins for CD’s, batteries and tiny electronic-related waste but I have no clue about the metal one.

I am sorry if this question is too stupid, this is why I haven’t asked my neighbours, back in my country (Spain) we have the same container for plastic and metal disposal.

Dank u wel voor uw hulp
Tot ziens.

Will you consider the environment when buying a Valentine’s Card?

It is thought that using recycled paper and card is beneficial for the environment, some greetings cards are produced using partially or all recycled materials, however, during this process many chemicals are used to bleach the card to a commercially attractive white, and also there is the journey this recycled card makes around the globe before ending up on the shelf of a high street store.

Billions of tonnes of recycled card, and finished greetings cards, are produced in Eastern countries, and is shipped in containers across the seas to the UK, belching out C02 into the atmosphere as the boats that are used burn fossil fuel. The majority of these vessels are decades old, and were not built in a time of environmental conscience, so they are not efficient and run on the planet’s dwindling fossil fuels.

The greetings cards and recycled paper pulp to make greetings cards arrive in the UK in containers and are then offloaded onto diesel lorries. The greetings cards are driven the length and the breadth of the UK to distribution depots, which unpack the containers, and reload onto vans and lorries to distribute to high street shops and supermarkets.

The most popular annual occasions being Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Fathers Day, when these dates pass, the cards are taken off the shelves. Many stores are on a sale or return agreement, so back to the East they go, packed back into containers, and returned to the recycling plant, and the cycle starts all over again.

Consider the benefits of buying FSC accredited card, from sustainable sources, where trees are planted and replaced as the felling takes place. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is founded on inclusive and shared responsibility for setting high social, environmental and economic standards for forest management. This type of card arrives in the UK in huge sheets on pallets and is stored when it arrives at a printing company. There is no need for further distribution by road and rail.

As websites and technology continually improve, many greetings card orders are taken online. Consumers take advantage of software that enables consumers to personalise a card, as opposed to a mass-produced card on a rack in a store with the same stock design. Personalisation has reached new levels, with photo upload, and image manipulation allowing any text to appear in thousands of designs on file. In this way the consumer has the freedom to create a keepsake card which is unique to them.

When the order is placed, the design is sent to the printers that print to order. Sheets are printed, cut and folded, and best of all, no waste is produced. The card is then sent direct to the recipient using the UK’s most efficient postal service, the Royal Mail.

So this year when you are browsing for a Valentine’s card in a high street shop, take a moment to consider whether you would benefit from using an online personalised greetings card company like www.funkypigeon.com. This website has a print on demand ordering system producing personalised cards, posters and calendars which are environmentally friendly and also offer the consumer total control when designing a card online.

the process of recycling?