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Here's some random and interesting data I have. Not sure how accurate it is, but I'll go with it: Average Amount of Garbage Produced by Americans each day: 4.6 lbs. Type of Trash: Paper - 32.7% Yard Waste - 12.8% Food Waste - 12.5% Plastics - 12.1% Metals - 8.2% Wood - 5.6% Glass - 5.3% Textiles - 4.7% Rubber/Leather - 2.9% Other - 3.2% Where our trash goes: Landfill - 54% Recycled - 33.4% Incinerators - 12.6% Recession Recycling: $10 - The amount per ton that Harvard used to be paid for their recyclables $35 - The amount per ton Harvard now pays to get rid of them 1.7 million: The number of homes the U.S. could power for 24 hours if we turned a days worth of garbage into fuel How much of our trash is recyclable? 80% How much of our trash do we recycle? 33% 60 days The average time it takes for an aluminum can to be recycled and put back on the shelf $304,479 Average cost per acre to build a landfill Trashy Nations: Who's tossing out the least/most junk worldwide (pounds per capita) Ireland - 1,764 Norway - 1,764 U.S. - 1,672 Netherlands - 1,375 U.K. - 1,287 Japan - 913 Mexico - 759 China - 253 I think Ireland,Netherlands, and U.K. was convinced to change their trash habits by the EU. I would have to check, but I saw on German television via satellite that the EU is working together on this. I would say if we get Mexico, India, China, and the U.S. to really work on CO2 emissions and trash we might have vast improvements on a whole. |
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Edited by
smiless
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Sat 08/01/09 04:09 PM
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Is this TRUE or FALSE? You tell me! The year is 2089 12.6 billion people populate the planet. Drinking water is only for the rich. The rest suffer and much poverty, diseases, death, and unhappiness occurs. There are cheap distilling pumps like in "Water World" with Kevin Costner where you can pee into a cup and have the pump somehow making it drinkable again. They are the cheapest but only the upper middle class can afford them. Much of the planets population is unemployed because robots do most if not all of the work. Only oversight supervisors seem to live middle class life. The rich of course are the owners of the few corporations still left of the planet. Smiless have you seen the documentary FLOW: FOR THE LOVE OF WATER? or BLUE GOLD WORLD WATER WARS? It is the rich who are going to control the water ... just look at what is happening in poorer countries like India... Water companies get the rights to dam a river for a song ... they then sell water back to the poor people for WAY more than they were paying before and more than they can afford so they are forced to drink from disease ridden ponds ... they are dying And it isn't isolated to 'those people over wherever' A water company has just received rights to dam a river near where I live - it is a main salmon spawning route so it will destroy more than one direction in the ecosystem It makes me CRAZY!@!@!@! Ha look at that. I wasn't so far off afterall. I need to check out those documentaries you presented. I am not going to like that day when I have watched them. 
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Here's some random and interesting data I have. Not sure how accurate it is, but I'll go with it: Average Amount of Garbage Produced by Americans each day: 4.6 lbs. Type of Trash: Paper - 32.7% Yard Waste - 12.8% Food Waste - 12.5% Plastics - 12.1% Metals - 8.2% Wood - 5.6% Glass - 5.3% Textiles - 4.7% Rubber/Leather - 2.9% Other - 3.2% Where our trash goes: Landfill - 54% Recycled - 33.4% Incinerators - 12.6% Recession Recycling: $10 - The amount per ton that Harvard used to be paid for their recyclables $35 - The amount per ton Harvard now pays to get rid of them 1.7 million: The number of homes the U.S. could power for 24 hours if we turned a days worth of garbage into fuel How much of our trash is recyclable? 80% How much of our trash do we recycle? 33% 60 days The average time it takes for an aluminum can to be recycled and put back on the shelf $304,479 Average cost per acre to build a landfill Trashy Nations: Who's tossing out the least/most junk worldwide (pounds per capita) Ireland - 1,764 Norway - 1,764 U.S. - 1,672 Netherlands - 1,375 U.K. - 1,287 Japan - 913 Mexico - 759 China - 253 I think Ireland,Netherlands, and U.K. was convinced to change their trash habits by the EU. I would have to check, but I saw on German television via satellite that the EU is working together on this. I would say if we get Mexico, India, China, and the U.S. to really work on CO2 emissions and trash we might have vast improvements on a whole. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch |
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Very interesting QuietMan. It is horrifying to see all the trash dumped in the ocean. A big problem indeed. On the link you showed me I like the ending where it states:
Cleanup In 2008, Richard Owen, a building contractor and scuba dive instructor, formed the Environmental Cleanup Coalition to address the issue of the pollution of the North Pacific. The ECC plan calls for modifying a fleet of ships to clear the area of debris and form a restoration and recycling laboratory called Gyre Island Richard Owen! My man! I hope he succeeds with the cleanup 
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Very interesting QuietMan. It is horrifying to see all the trash dumped in the ocean. A big problem indeed. On the link you showed me I like the ending where it states: Cleanup In 2008, Richard Owen, a building contractor and scuba dive instructor, formed the Environmental Cleanup Coalition to address the issue of the pollution of the North Pacific. The ECC plan calls for modifying a fleet of ships to clear the area of debris and form a restoration and recycling laboratory called Gyre Island Richard Owen! My man! I hope he succeeds with the cleanup Me too. |
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What is the best alternative to dispose trash that will offer the least amount of pollution to our planet.
I heard some suggest to put it in space or on the moon! That most be very expensive to do! |
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What is the best alternative to dispose trash that will offer the least amount of pollution to our planet. I heard some suggest to put it in space or on the moon! That most be very expensive to do! The best use is to either recycle or have dual purpose. Packaging could be designed as insulation for example, or fertilizer. Our "throw away" economy was a stupid idea from the very beginning. Various materials could be designed to decompose a certain way such that the landfill produces an unnatural natural gas in large quantities over a very long period of time. The absolute best solution for waste is to not produce it in the first place. |
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Edited by
smiless
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Sat 08/01/09 06:35 PM
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What is the best alternative to dispose trash that will offer the least amount of pollution to our planet. I heard some suggest to put it in space or on the moon! That most be very expensive to do! The best use is to either recycle or have dual purpose. Packaging could be designed as insulation for example, or fertilizer. Our "throw away" economy was a stupid idea from the very beginning. Various materials could be designed to decompose a certain way such that the landfill produces an unnatural natural gas in large quantities over a very long period of time. The absolute best solution for waste is to not produce it in the first place. Yes not to produce it in the first place will be a challenge for today's society where everyone is accustomed to packaging everything as we know it, yet it can be done. What would be great is to have different idealogies shared on this thread on what we could do. |
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What is the best alternative to dispose trash that will offer the least amount of pollution to our planet. I heard some suggest to put it in space or on the moon! That most be very expensive to do! The best use is to either recycle or have dual purpose. Packaging could be designed as insulation for example, or fertilizer. Our "throw away" economy was a stupid idea from the very beginning. Various materials could be designed to decompose a certain way such that the landfill produces an unnatural natural gas in large quantities over a very long period of time. The absolute best solution for waste is to not produce it in the first place. Yes not to produce it in the first place will be a challenge for today's society where everyone is accustomed to packaging everything as we know it, yet it can be done. What would be great is to have different idealogies shared on this thread on what we could do. We have the technology to solve the worlds future water problems... But we would have to start right now to make it work. Comets can be intercepted... A recent ion drive test proved it can be done. But it might take a world wide effort...(intercept,capture,processing,supply lines,refueling stations,etc...) DO YOU THINK WE ARE READY?  It might take a hundred years from start to finish... How many people can even think on that time line? |
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What is the best alternative to dispose trash that will offer the least amount of pollution to our planet. I heard some suggest to put it in space or on the moon! That most be very expensive to do! The best use is to either recycle or have dual purpose. Packaging could be designed as insulation for example, or fertilizer. Our "throw away" economy was a stupid idea from the very beginning. Various materials could be designed to decompose a certain way such that the landfill produces an unnatural natural gas in large quantities over a very long period of time. The absolute best solution for waste is to not produce it in the first place. Yes not to produce it in the first place will be a challenge for today's society where everyone is accustomed to packaging everything as we know it, yet it can be done. What would be great is to have different idealogies shared on this thread on what we could do. We have the technology to solve the worlds future water problems... But we would have to start right now to make it work. Comets can be intercepted... A recent ion drive test proved it can be done. But it might take a world wide effort...(intercept,capture,processing,supply lines,refueling stations,etc...) DO YOU THINK WE ARE READY? It might take a hundred years from start to finish... How many people can even think on that time line? Perhaps technology will allow us to live 200 years one day.  so we can think os such a time line.
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Deep in a certain part of this planet is a cave that has special crystals.
Whoever will discover this "special crystal" will ground a corporation that allows spaceflight. There we will be able to fly to planets that have the same atmosphere and life we know it here on this planet. Don't mind me I am a imagination freak. 
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