Your Questions About Recycling

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When you download songs from the iTunes Store, you are warned to make a backup of the songs. This is because you cannot download them a second time without paying for them a second time. Your best bet is to get the songs from the backup that you made after downloading them. If you did not make a backup, then I hope you didn’t pay too much money to learn this lesson.

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Until you explain how will i can trouble shoot your problem. 🙂

did you try to right click on desktop and selecting properies and then desktop page and the select/check the recycle bin icon.

GOod luck!!!

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If you contact youre council you will get a black recycling box for paper catalouges magazines etc glass bottles & jars + food cans
also you can ask for a green wheelie bin for garden waste such has tree & hedge clipping grass cuttings etc

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They don’t need them. Almost everything is baing recycled already. Maybe they could get the government involved and screw it up. Then the dogooders can say that thier intensions were good and they need U.N. Money to fix the problem.

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There are 4R’s to the current “green” movement: Reduce, Recycle, Re-use, and Re-purpose. Whenever you’re trying to come up with an idea, it is a good thing to start large, use the box as a model, and then think out of the box. How many bins do you need? What materials do you plan on collecting? Based upon the materials you plan on collecting, what functions (criteria) must your bins perform?

In terms of “bins”, you can use everything from metal to plastic to cardboard. But, must your bins also be able to be washed? Must they be able to contain fluids (i.e. The left-overs in soda cans)? How big must the be? How do you plan on getting your bin contents to an actual recycling center? (i.e. Do you need double the number of bins or plastic bag liners) In general, old garbage cans work pretty well for larger recycling collections. Towards getting old cans, try person to person networking, free cycle,org, 2good2toss.com, and craigslist.com.

Once you get your potential ideas down, it’s time to do a reality check. Do you have recycling centers in your area that pay for recyclables? If so, what types and how much? Is the recycling effort worth what you will receive in terms of pay? Do you have folks on board to do the transporting of the collected materials?

….There is one recycling idea that may generate some actual cash. First check to find out what types of metal recyclers are in your area, how much they pay, what they will take, how the items must be sorted, how the items must be de-assembled, etc… Second figure out if you can arrange for a collection of pick-up trucks capable for a delivery of metal to the metalrecyclerss. Third, determine what type of folks you have in your area in terms of the amount and type of metal they have laying around. – I find that in this area there a quite a number of folks who have “some metal” laying around their houses. They have more than what they are willing or able to toss into their garbage cans or take to the dump at full landfill prices. Yet, they don’t have enough collected to justify a run to the metalrecyclerss. I would suggest a one day (i.e. Saturday) recycling event on theschooll grounds, or even a parking lot out in the community, at which folks can bring the metal they have hanging around the house. You collect the metal, transport it, and collect the money for it. Or, maybe you can even get a metal recycler to provide a truck, a little labor, and the transport for a piece of the metal’s value.

If you want to think in terms of “green” there are the Reduce, Re-use, and Re-purpose aspects of the movement also. Can you think of some type of product you can quickly and cheaply throw together out of someone else’s discards, a market/demographic to address, and then a market place for them? – One idea are jean’s purses. The rough and dirty version is to: turn a pair of jeans inside out, sew across the legs at the crotch, cut off the legs, turn right side out, add a shoulder strap, optionally add a draw string through the belt loops. These are not the most complete directions, check with the home-ec teacher or a sewer for additional considerations. But, if you have a place to sell them at and each person turns in a pair of old jeans you should be able to make a relatively plain purse with minimal skill in about a half hour. You might start with getting donations but, in this area you can buy jeans for $1-$4 at thrift stores. You may even be able to arrange to have jeans too battered to be sold given to you. Thrift store sheets, linens, curtains and other items can be used for making inexpensive draw strings and/or shoulder straps and/or simple embelishments. The cut-off leg material can also be used to make shoulder straps. What would remain if you use this idea or the sale of some other Re-used or Re-purposed idea is a selling location.

In these trying economic times, if the folks in your community have any money to spend – they are probably looking for something that has value to them and makes them feel good. Getting personal value for your charity dollar does both. One quick and dirty project in terms of time, effort, and money spent in the whole project used to be raking leaves. In this process, you need a willing crew of leaf rakers and rakes. You will need publicity, a couple of set dates (preferably with some lee-way for an extention if you get some serious action), and a way to take leaf raking apppointments. If your group has a way to haul leaves and a free place to get rid of them, you might also consider leaf hauling as well. ALWAYS go in a group of a couple of kids and/or kid and parent groups to rake leaves. ALWAYS ensure that all that come together, leave together. Set your suggested donation value reasonably low and work with your school administration on how/if a tax deduction is available.

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What ever your city is you can contact the Chamber of Commerce..they should be able to give you answers. You can also find out who the owner is and have him request the bins, they are free.
Great to see others involved in saving the earth.. It’s not to late!!

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To put it in context, its the same as taking money from the charity jar on the counter…..

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Of course not. We’ll have to re-use them then too. That is if the squirrels don’t devour them all!

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They are injection molded, usually from polypropylene. Read about the process here.

Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injection_molding