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re: Do you reduce, re-use, and, most pertinently, RECYCLE?
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:34 am to TexasTiger33
Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:34 am to TexasTiger33
Try to recycle beer cans but we don't have recycle pickup out here in the boonies. Burn my burnable trash but not right now.
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Posted on 8/31/23 at 10:51 am to TexasTiger33
I eat as much steak as possible to reduce the number of cows, and thus cow farts.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 12:44 pm to TexasTiger33
I appreciate all the candid responses. I hope this thread encouraged at least one person to reduce, re-use, and/or recycle just a little more.
Also, be cool...stay in school.
Also, be cool...stay in school.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 1:13 pm to TexasTiger33
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be cool...stay in school.
Clearly you need some education rather than idealism
Posted on 8/31/23 at 1:14 pm to Proximo
quote:Hey man, a little recycling never hurt nobody...
Clearly you need some education rather than idealism
Posted on 8/31/23 at 1:39 pm to Bayou Brat
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There are privies staged along trails or if none is available, there are procedures to poop in the woods. Must walk at least 200 feet from the trail and stay 200 feet from water sources to prevent contamination. Dig a cat hole in the ground at least six inches deep that you poop in and cover afterwards. I usually put a rock over my covered poop so no one else tries digging in the same spot. Same to take a piss, should walk off the trail at least 50 ft.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 2:14 pm to TexasTiger33
reduce...reuse....hell no I'm not poor.
If they have a can provided by the waste management system where they took recyclable goods I'd certainly seperate my stuff into two bins. As it is the only shite they pick up is trash in the blue can. If I wanted to recycle I'd have to get in my truck and take it God knows where....until they can figure this out with waste management all the shite goes in the blue can and to the road to go to the landfill every Wednesday morning.
If they have a can provided by the waste management system where they took recyclable goods I'd certainly seperate my stuff into two bins. As it is the only shite they pick up is trash in the blue can. If I wanted to recycle I'd have to get in my truck and take it God knows where....until they can figure this out with waste management all the shite goes in the blue can and to the road to go to the landfill every Wednesday morning.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 3:20 pm to TexasTiger33
Recycle plastic and metal. Burn what I can.
Grandparents in rural Natchitoches parish never went to the dump. Would burn everything in a burn barrel, smash it down then burn more. would end up taking the tractor and burying the contents every six months.
Grandparents in rural Natchitoches parish never went to the dump. Would burn everything in a burn barrel, smash it down then burn more. would end up taking the tractor and burying the contents every six months.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 3:32 pm to HempHead
quote:Expound on this if you will....
I try not to buy much packaged shite and I keep pretty much everything in glass containers. Make a lot of aluminum waste, though. I don't want to drive 90 minutes to drop off a quarter's worth of cans for them to probably end up in a landfill anyway.
Do you shop and then bring groceries home and store them in glass containers?
Milk, coffee, canned goods, dry goods all come in packing of some sort.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 3:34 pm to TexasTiger33
Every day!
Posted on 8/31/23 at 3:42 pm to TexasTiger33
We recycle everything the recycle center takes and compost kitchen scraps.
Some weeks we don't bother putting out the trash because we haven't filled up one kitchen garbage bag.
Some weeks we don't bother putting out the trash because we haven't filled up one kitchen garbage bag.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 3:48 pm to TexasTiger33
Most recycling does not matter...Aluminum matters a lot.
It takes 500 BTU/Pound to melt aluminum scrap, where it can be recast with relatively little effort. You get around 94% recovery.
It takes around 5 pounds of Bauxite to extract 1 pound of Aluminum and it takes around 5,000 BTU/pound equivalent for the extraction.
So...if you want to make aluminum in the US, you have to mine the bauxite and ship it across the world (because we have virtually no bauxite in the US), then use 10X the energy to extract 1/5 the material from what you would have gotten by re-melting aluminum scrap. Why do you think the freaking Chinese are paying above market price to buy aluminum scrap from the US?
China imported 1.52 Million Tons of Scrap Aluminum in 2022. 18% of the non-ferrous scrap imported by the Chinese came from the US. So...we are sending them our scrap where they re-melt it, cast it then sell it back to us in finished products.
That being said, over 1/3 of the aluminum recycled in the world is done in North America (the largest share in the world). But ASIA is projected to pass us in the next 3-5 years.
It takes 500 BTU/Pound to melt aluminum scrap, where it can be recast with relatively little effort. You get around 94% recovery.
It takes around 5 pounds of Bauxite to extract 1 pound of Aluminum and it takes around 5,000 BTU/pound equivalent for the extraction.
So...if you want to make aluminum in the US, you have to mine the bauxite and ship it across the world (because we have virtually no bauxite in the US), then use 10X the energy to extract 1/5 the material from what you would have gotten by re-melting aluminum scrap. Why do you think the freaking Chinese are paying above market price to buy aluminum scrap from the US?
China imported 1.52 Million Tons of Scrap Aluminum in 2022. 18% of the non-ferrous scrap imported by the Chinese came from the US. So...we are sending them our scrap where they re-melt it, cast it then sell it back to us in finished products.
That being said, over 1/3 of the aluminum recycled in the world is done in North America (the largest share in the world). But ASIA is projected to pass us in the next 3-5 years.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 3:49 pm to TexasTiger33
All I know is that my neighbors fill those open topped recycle bins full of cardboard, loose paper, and plastic bottles. They set them by the street for pickup, so when a stiff breeze comes by, all the cardboard, loose paper, and plastic bottles fly all over the neighborhood. All in the name of saving the planet.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 4:27 pm to TexasTiger33
I live in Guam. We have recycle bin and it all goes to the landfill. However it seems to make them fell good about the illusion of recycling.
I learned that islander don't really care to use trash cans. So recycling is pointless here.
I learned that islander don't really care to use trash cans. So recycling is pointless here.
Posted on 8/31/23 at 4:29 pm to TexasTiger33
I burn my plastic to mack syn gas
Posted on 8/31/23 at 5:01 pm to TexasTiger33
I’m against recycling.
Posted on 9/2/23 at 9:42 am to madamsquirrel
quote:Duh. Why am I so dense I didn't think of that. We have been getting the guest bedroom ready to paint so we have Goodwilled several car loads of things this summer.
that is part of reuse. Drop them off at a thrift store.
Posted on 9/2/23 at 9:56 am to TexasTiger33
I do
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