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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2019 11:07:44 GMT -5
Wow it's REALLY an EPIDEMIC ..... Recycling is in trouble — and it might be your fault 
tinyurl.com/l9po4ue
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Post by Mudrunner1976 (NE_Ohio) on Mar 19, 2019 19:27:53 GMT -5
I wouldn't click on the link in @badpetroleum 's above post. It demanded my Microsoft Account login, and was a pain to get out of (at least without clicking on the pop-up which I did not try). I had to end-task my browser and quickly close the tab while re-opening.
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Post by edindetroit on Mar 20, 2019 11:42:06 GMT -5
Strange, I had no problem with the link.
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Post by goldie on Mar 21, 2019 7:46:04 GMT -5
Help it by buying recycled products when you can.
And be careful about not putting non-recyclables in the recycling bin. I'm sure everyone who has commented here already does that, but I'm just saying, in case there are some others who happen to read this. I live in a building that has to pay for its own recycling and waste hauling, and there has been a big problem with people putting things such as plastic packaging materials in the recycling bins, or bagging their recyclables in plastic bags, and such. Things like that can get a whole load of recycling rejected.
What is allowed or not varies from program to program, so it's important to know what yours allows. I've probably been guilty of "wishful recycling" in the past, but am trying to be more careful now. I'm lucky b/c in this area we have stores that accept various types of recycling and even compostables, so I have places to take some things, like plastic bags, that our building recycling vendor does not accept.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 13:11:06 GMT -5
Recycling, because of the high price being charged to Municipalities is quickly dissipating in thr USA and All Over The World, wich means then that at the most, MANUFACTURING has to STOP the Waste THEY Create, that easy !!!
If you put out waste than it's to expensive to re cycle, STOP your Practices...
Lets go back to glass bottles with a Return Charge, and the PLASTIC that Chokes EVEN WHALES, we do not need.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 13:13:55 GMT -5
I wouldn't click on the link in @badpetroleum 's above post. It demanded my Microsoft Account login, and was a pain to get out of (at least without clicking on the pop-up which I did not try). I had to end-task my browser and quickly close the tab while re-opening. ...When and If it happens again....it shout open a tiny URL Link like this : JUST PROCEED TO THE SITE.. and bingo. Otherwise the problem it's at your end. |
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Post by vgrewe on Mar 25, 2019 21:52:56 GMT -5
I wouldn't click on the link in @badpetroleum 's above post. It demanded my Microsoft Account login, and was a pain to get out of (at least without clicking on the pop-up which I did not try). I had to end-task my browser and quickly close the tab while re-opening. I clicked on the link. Got the login request---not "demand". Hit the cancel button and all was good. Yawn. Life isn't really that hard. Which begs the question > Is mudrunner trying to censor badpetroleum? |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 11:40:45 GMT -5
In the mean time,The Green People of the Planet they should start getting back to basis...No MORE throwing Away Glass, even reyclying it..Just let's go back 50-60 years and make ALL beverages in glass bottles RETURNABLE with a Deposit.
Bingo, it worked in the Old Times, it can sure work again this Century and moving forward.
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Post by Mudrunner1976 (NE_Ohio) on Mar 26, 2019 20:47:18 GMT -5
I wouldn't click on the link in @badpetroleum 's above post. It demanded my Microsoft Account login, and was a pain to get out of (at least without clicking on the pop-up which I did not try). I had to end-task my browser and quickly close the tab while re-opening. I clicked on the link. Got the login request---not "demand". Hit the cancel button and all was good. Yawn. Life isn't really that hard. Which begs the question > Is mudrunner trying to censor badpetroleum? I'm not trying to censor @badpetroleum. Perhaps I was being overly cautious, but there do exist malicious links that present a pop-up that regardless of what you click, including a cancel button, you end up installing a virus. So perhaps demand was to strong a descriptor, but to me, a request for my Microsoft credentials is not what I expect from a link to some news article. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 28, 2019 6:39:23 GMT -5
No more of your junk.In 2017, Plastic China premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, quickly gaining critical acclaim. The film focuses on an unschooled 11-year-old girl who lives among imported plastic waste in a northern Chinese village. In the background, viewers see how plastic packaging that is imported from across the world is washed in polluting chemical baths, with the leftover plastic disposed of by burning, spewing toxins into the air. At the beginning of the film’s online media cut, filmmaker Jiuliang Wang asks the director of a recycling centre in California why plastics are being shipped to China: ‘The markets are just too good coming from China.’ Wang asks further, ‘Do you know how your Chinese buyers process your plastics?’ to which the director hesitantly replies, ‘The conditions are not ideal…’ The rest of the article here: newint.org/features/2018/11/01/chinese-waste-ban
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Post by goldie on Mar 28, 2019 19:43:33 GMT -5
Yesterday I accidentally broke a new, never used coiled compact fluorescent bulb. I swept up the pieces and put them in a thick plastic bag. Does anyone know if I can put it in with my regular garbage or does it have to be specially disposed of? If so, how? I hate to have to make a special trip out to the hazardous waste site for a few pieces of one little bulb. But I don't want to pollute, either.
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Post by weaslespit on Mar 29, 2019 11:38:36 GMT -5
Yesterday I accidentally broke a new, never used coiled compact fluorescent bulb. I swept up the pieces and put them in a thick plastic bag. Does anyone know if I can put it in with my regular garbage or does it have to be specially disposed of? If so, how? I hate to have to make a special trip out to the hazardous waste site for a few pieces of one little bulb. But I don't want to pollute, either.
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Post by Interesting on Mar 29, 2019 18:34:40 GMT -5
When you break a CFL, the mercury evaporates where you broke it and is pretty much gone after a while. It's best to put it all in a sealable bag as soon as you break it (versus when you discover it broken.)
If you let the mercury evaporate, there's not much difference dumping it in the trash anymore. I'm pretty sure most recycling places will take broken ones too, the burned out CFL tubes need to be crushed anyway to recycle. Just need to deal with the mercury.
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Post by goldie on Mar 29, 2019 20:32:49 GMT -5
Thanks. So does that mean that while I was standing over it trying to decide what to do and then sweeping it, I was breathing in mercury vapors? Yike! My memory was bad enough as it was.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2019 13:28:39 GMT -5
Thanks. So does that mean that while I was standing over it trying to decide what to do and then sweeping it, I was breathing in mercury vapors? Yike! My memory was bad enough as it was. Next is the Nightmares !!!! Then The Migraines and ultimately, the Pearly Gates !!!  |
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