The story of stuff

[Tangerine]

The cost of sorting has nothing to do with it. There is no demand for recycled materials, because they are more expensive and more environmentally detrimental than producing NEW goods. Until THAT changes, the whole idea is a bust.

 

[mazHur]

The cost of sorting has nothing to do with it. There is no demand for recycled materials, because they are more expensive and more environmentally detrimental than producing NEW goods. Until THAT changes, the whole idea is a bust.

It has.

If I left anything outside my house, such as garbage, it won't be there the next day!! Scavenger boys are always there early morning to collect the reusables, such as metal, paper and cardboard, glass and plastic.

I have seen used plastic being crushed and converted into pellets.

I have seen old paper and paper products beaten up again with fresh pulp or alone to make wet sheets or other kinda paper.

Empty glass bottles and even broken glass are sold....

 

[Tangerine]

It has.

If I left anything outside my house, such as garbage, it won't be there the next day!! Scavenger boys are always there early morning to collect the reusables, such as metal, paper and cardboard, glass and plastic.

I have seen used plastic being crushed and converted into pellets.

I have seen old paper and paper products beaten up again with fresh pulp or alone to make wet sheets or other kinda paper.

Empty glass bottles and even broken glass are sold....

There is no viable market yet for paper recycling nor glass. Are there some companies doing it? Yes, but at unreasonably higher costs. It also requires far more energy and created far more pollutants to recycle paper than to manufacture new. That's a simple fact. The only people purchasing those items are those who are willing to pay much more to say "it's recycled." It's but a tiny fraction of the marketplace.

 

[mazHur]

There is no viable market yet for paper recycling nor glass. Are there some companies doing it? Yes, but at unreasonably higher costs. It also requires far more energy and created far more pollutants to recycle paper than to manufacture new. That's a simple fact. The only people purchasing those items are those who are willing to pay much more to say "it's recycled."

It's but a tiny fraction of the marketplace.

I have but to agree with you on this

 

[mazHur]

Shocking!! How waste is fed to humans!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7NPgrCvg-0&feature=player_embedded

 

[Accountable]

i remember we had a Nehi bottling plant in my home town when I was a kid. We gathered glass soda bottles & took them to the local store & got a few cents each, I don't remember how much. We used the money to buy candy. The Nehi bottles were picked up by the Nehi delivery guy when he brought fresh sodas. The empties went back to the plant where they were machine washed & sterilized, then refilled & resold.

Hell, I don't know, but I may have picked up the same bottle several times.

 

[edgray]

i remember we had a Nehi bottling plant in my home town when I was a kid. We gathered glass soda bottles & took them to the local store & got a few cents each, I don't remember how much. We used the money to buy candy. The Nehi bottles were picked up by the Nehi delivery guy when he brought fresh sodas. The empties went back to the plant where they were machine washed & sterilized, then refilled & resold.

Hell, I don't know, but I may have picked up the same bottle several times.

They used to do that in Britain too. I remember we got 5p for taking empties back to the shop... pretty sensible, far better than plastics.

 

[Dana]

If you follow their YouTube channel, one of their stories, I think it's bottled water, mentions how recycling isn't really recycling, it just gets shipped somewhere else or burned.

there are companies that take plastic bottles and melt them down and reuse them as threads for polyester blend clothing. If you have anything by Columbia you're probably wearing a water bottle. I dunno if you all get Columbia under under.

 

[TommyTooter]

Publish it electronically.

Books are sustainable though, forests are planted especially for that purpose.

hemp yields 4x what pine yields and is nowhere near as rough on the soil.

 

[Dana]

They should just publish books online.

 

[edgray]

hemp yields 4x what pine yields and is nowhere near as rough on the soil.

:thumbup

You know, Henry Ford made a car out of hemp. It was several times stronger than any other metal chassis.

Hemp is wonderful stuff, and can pretty much replace most materials from cloth to paper and from plastics to metal.

 

[edgray]

http://www.hempcar.org/ford.shtml

 

[Accountable]

:thumbup

You know, Henry Ford made a car out of hemp.

So did Cheech & Chong!

 

[edgray]

So did Cheech & Chong!

hahaha up in smoke!!