popularmechanics.com— Americans haul 82 million tons of trash to recycling centers each year?but that?s still just 32.5 percent of what we throw out. Here?s how much energy recycling saves and how much that?s worth.
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I think at this point in time we can't just be content with 33%. The planet just can't handle it, and we don't have time to take a steady pace.We're lucky John McCain wasn't elected, or soon it would have been "just 89%".
hey bscott85, one sentence is about aluminum. are you retarded?"Aluminum, for example, requires 96 percent less energy to make from recycled cans than it does to process from bauxite. At the other end of the spectrum, recycled glass uses only about 21 percent less energy—but it still comes out ahead, according to a study by Washington-based environmental consultant Jeffrey Morris. Recycled plastic bottles use 76 percent less energy and newsprint about 45 percent less, he found. Across the board, the key factor is the energy intensity of extracting virgin materials, which is an order of magnitude higher than that of recovering the same material through recycling. “Even if you doubled the emissions from collecting recyclables, it wouldn’t come close,” Morris says. Overall, he found, it takes 10.4 million Btu to manufacture products from a ton of recyclables, compared to 23.3 million Btu for virgin materials. And all of the collecting, hauling and processing of those recyclables adds just 0.9 million Btu."
if we were all in the uk, that would make sense. but if you think about it, who doesn't already have a ceramic mug? my parents probably had 40 of them growing up. if we each just used what we had already, we wouldn't have this problem.instead, we imagine it somehow makes sense to have everyone using paper cups to save water and energy used to wash dishes. and i must ask, who runs their dishwasher with just a single mug in it? am i supposed to switch to entirely disposable utensils and plates too?even the article you link goes on to say that reusable is still better:"However with the insane growth of coffee cafes and caffein addicts, the use of coffee cups has exploded. Brit's consume 70M cups of coffee a day and in the US, Starbucks alone fills 2.3Bn cups a year. Added to this is the fact that paper cups are coated with polyethelene plastic. This makes separation, and hence recycling of the paper cups even more complicated. Starbucks has introduced a cup which is 10% recycleable, Tully's is completely compostable but available only in the USA. So it looks like carrying your own is the answer for now or cut back on the java."
you are completely wrong. sorry, just thought you should know."McDonald’s, the world-famous fast-food chain best known for its golden arches and Big Macs, bills itself as a leader “in environmental conservation.” A few weeks ago I walked into a McDonald’s restaurant for the first time in a year and ordered the new sweet tea drink. To my surprise the drink comes in a styrofoam cup.Styrofoam is also known as polystyrene, which is made from styrene. According to the Environmental Justice Network, styrene is “known to indiscriminately attack tissue and the nervous system” and is absorbed through the skin, lungs and intestines."<a class="user" href="http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/37876">http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/37876</a>
Paper my be renewable, but it takes a lot of energy to cut down that oxygen generating tree, mulch it into pulp, form it into paper, color it up a bit, then wrap your food with it.Then you pay the garbabe man to haul it to the dump so it can rot for a couple of years.And what about all the wax on the drink container, and the plastic straw? And at those chinese food court restaurants, they always serve plastic knives/forks.Now piss off, Nancy.
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rjhomuthNov 14, 2008
I think at this point in time we can't just be content with 33%. The planet just can't handle it, and we don't have time to take a steady pace.We're lucky John McCain wasn't elected, or soon it would have been "just 89%".
dweller99Nov 14, 2008
This article refutes a lot of the claims in the Penn and Teller episode.<a class="user" href="http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4290631.html?nav=rss20">http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4290 ...</a>
uncleosbertNov 14, 2008
hey bscott85, one sentence is about aluminum. are you retarded?"Aluminum, for example, requires 96 percent less energy to make from recycled cans than it does to process from bauxite. At the other end of the spectrum, recycled glass uses only about 21 percent less energy—but it still comes out ahead, according to a study by Washington-based environmental consultant Jeffrey Morris. Recycled plastic bottles use 76 percent less energy and newsprint about 45 percent less, he found. Across the board, the key factor is the energy intensity of extracting virgin materials, which is an order of magnitude higher than that of recovering the same material through recycling. “Even if you doubled the emissions from collecting recyclables, it wouldn’t come close,” Morris says. Overall, he found, it takes 10.4 million Btu to manufacture products from a ton of recyclables, compared to 23.3 million Btu for virgin materials. And all of the collecting, hauling and processing of those recyclables adds just 0.9 million Btu."
sklter84Nov 14, 2008
There are groups for everything. There's even a group that's against vaccination and also has a "x amount of myths" list.
arkayceeNov 14, 2008
It's already happening.<a class="user" href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/1001-smart_trash_cans.htm">http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2006/1001-smart ...</a>
uncleosbertNov 14, 2008
if we were all in the uk, that would make sense. but if you think about it, who doesn't already have a ceramic mug? my parents probably had 40 of them growing up. if we each just used what we had already, we wouldn't have this problem.instead, we imagine it somehow makes sense to have everyone using paper cups to save water and energy used to wash dishes. and i must ask, who runs their dishwasher with just a single mug in it? am i supposed to switch to entirely disposable utensils and plates too?even the article you link goes on to say that reusable is still better:"However with the insane growth of coffee cafes and caffein addicts, the use of coffee cups has exploded. Brit's consume 70M cups of coffee a day and in the US, Starbucks alone fills 2.3Bn cups a year. Added to this is the fact that paper cups are coated with polyethelene plastic. This makes separation, and hence recycling of the paper cups even more complicated. Starbucks has introduced a cup which is 10% recycleable, Tully's is completely compostable but available only in the USA. So it looks like carrying your own is the answer for now or cut back on the java."
uncleosbertNov 14, 2008
you are completely wrong. sorry, just thought you should know."McDonald’s, the world-famous fast-food chain best known for its golden arches and Big Macs, bills itself as a leader “in environmental conservation.” A few weeks ago I walked into a McDonald’s restaurant for the first time in a year and ordered the new sweet tea drink. To my surprise the drink comes in a styrofoam cup.Styrofoam is also known as polystyrene, which is made from styrene. According to the Environmental Justice Network, styrene is “known to indiscriminately attack tissue and the nervous system” and is absorbed through the skin, lungs and intestines."<a class="user" href="http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/37876">http://www.enn.com/pollution/article/37876</a>
datagodNov 15, 2008
1. I drink 7,000 cups a day.2. I never wash my mug.3. Piss off, Nancy boy.
datagodNov 15, 2008
Paper my be renewable, but it takes a lot of energy to cut down that oxygen generating tree, mulch it into pulp, form it into paper, color it up a bit, then wrap your food with it.Then you pay the garbabe man to haul it to the dump so it can rot for a couple of years.And what about all the wax on the drink container, and the plastic straw? And at those chinese food court restaurants, they always serve plastic knives/forks.Now piss off, Nancy.
soso33Nov 20, 2008
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