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Texas city flooded with mountain of plastic recycling that hasn't been touched in a year
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Posted on 08/24/2024 2:37:12 PM PDT by algore

A Texas city has been flooded with mountains of plastic waste that hasn't been touched in a year and a half as the facility continues to fail fire inspections.

Wright Waste Management, located 20 miles outside of downtown Houston, has hundreds of pounds of plastic trash just sitting behind a locked gate.

The garbage hasn't been touched in more than a year and a half, according to CBS News.

To tackle the ongoing plastic pollution problem, the Houston Recycling Collaboration - made up of the City of Houston, ExxonMobil, LyondellBasell, Cyclyx International and FCC Environmental Services - was born.

It was supposed to be able to take any plastic and either recycle it mechanically - the traditional way - or burn it chemically into a new plastic or fuel.

However, 20 months into the program, environmental groups found that the plastic dropped off by residents has yet to be chemically recycled, according to CBS News.

Cyclyx International is supposed to open another sorting plant in mid-2025, but for now, the pollution is piling up at the Wright facility, which has failed to pass several fire safety inspections, the outlet said.

The facility does not have the operational permit it needs to hold hazardous materials, flammable and combustible liquids, LP gas, and miscellaneous combustibles. It also failed its fire inspection through Harris County Fire three times, CBS and Inside Climate News discovered.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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KEYWORDS: houston; liberalcity; plastic; plasticwaste; recycling; texas; trash; wastemanagement
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To: Organic Panic

Put the government in charge of sand. It’ll be gone in 5 years.


21 posted on 08/24/2024 3:49:18 PM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: algore

I’m thinking of the movie “The Graduate”.


22 posted on 08/24/2024 3:53:33 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: algore

Wheelabrator Baltimore is a waste-to-energy incinerator located in the Westport neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland and is operated by Wheelabrator Technologies, a subsidiary of Energy Capital Partners. It has an electric generation capacity of 64.5 megawatts.

23 posted on 08/24/2024 3:59:34 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: algore

Burn it for energy production


24 posted on 08/24/2024 4:06:51 PM PDT by Vaquero (In Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: algore
The only plastic which can be easily recycled is type 1 and type 2.

Types 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 either can not be recycled at all or it is not cost effective.

25 posted on 08/24/2024 4:15:28 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: algore
hundreds of pounds of plastic trash just sitting behind a locked gate.

If compressed, that's a couple of pallets.

26 posted on 08/24/2024 4:16:21 PM PDT by fso301
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To: sonova

I was a materials science major.

You’re right that is why we don’t use any recycled materials in our medical products.


27 posted on 08/24/2024 4:19:19 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: ProtectOurFreedom
Who would get their panties in a wad over that?

More likely hundreds of tons if you look at the picture in the article........

But who does that....

28 posted on 08/24/2024 4:20:41 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: algore

Toss a few EV batteries into the pile and problem solved!


29 posted on 08/24/2024 4:29:18 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: algore

Well, it’s floodin’ down in Texas....


30 posted on 08/24/2024 4:30:27 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Hot Tabasco

Tons, pounds…what’s a few orders of magnitude to an innumerate journalist?


31 posted on 08/24/2024 4:31:02 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: Lockbox

And, I believe, that has (or is happening) with the defunct solar panel disposal.

The dirty little secret with solar panels is that they are not recyclable and are highly toxic to dispose of. And that (I believe) China is no longer accepting them for disposal.


32 posted on 08/24/2024 6:55:12 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: algore
Mealworms can eat styrofoam. (Polystyrene plastic.) A Bacteria in their digestive tract allows them to do this.

styrofoam-eating mealworms don’t absorb toxic additive in the foam

intelligentliving.co › home › environment › styrofoam-eating mealworms don’t absorb toxic additive in the foam

Snip..."Styrofoam-Eating Mealworms Don't Absorb Toxic Additive In The Foam"

June 1, 2020 - They can be used to help with the problem of Styrofoam waste and then livestock feed. In the first study, the researchers showed that mealworms effortlessly consumed the Styrofoam and then excreted it at a ratio of approximately 50% carbon ..." More at link

Stanford study Mealworms and polystyrene

Snip..."The mealworms are able to do this due to their gut bacteria (Exiguobacterium sp. strain YT2) that actually breaks down the polystyrene. The Stanford study uses a common mealworm (the larvae of Tenebrio molitor Linnaeus) – we are using this same mealworm, but in addition to that we are also using what’s known as a “superworm” (the larvae of Zophobas morio), a type of darkling beetle, that has a lifespan of 3 to 15 years.

The superworm seems to be more aggressive, larger, more sturdy, and eats a lot more material. It also has the ability to live for up to a year in the larval stage just by keeping them all in constant contact of each other’s bodies. The other mealworm has a very short cycle."

33 posted on 08/24/2024 7:58:08 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: ChildOfThe60s

And wind mill blades, no disposal of those, plus about 1/2 the project life span for the blades.


34 posted on 08/24/2024 10:34:29 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show host to me.... Sting)
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To: algore

This was never a problem when the Chinese used to recycle our plastic into electricity.


35 posted on 08/25/2024 6:17:19 AM PDT by dgbrown
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To: Leaning Right

36 posted on 08/25/2024 10:16:15 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: algore

Let me guess - were they heavily subsidized?

And the free money was pocketed, just like in any green scam.


37 posted on 08/25/2024 10:20:10 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: ShadowAce

Ours always goes in the same truck it’s a split body like this one. Take a good look next time if it has two sides it’s a split body. Some have two bins on top and use the same side mounted robot arm to pick up the Brown vs Blue cans the only way to tell is a different hatch opens up top for each can. Why one truck this article explains why and shows an example of a truck of this type. They are super common for obvious reasons only one truck needs to make the trash run that’s half the drivers and staff. As pointed out by someone above our recycling is 100% self paid as well we don’t get charged for it the bins are dropped for free and they take 3/4 of our trash for free. We only get 30# a week then every bag has to have a purchased tag on it or they will just leave it on the side of the road. Last i.checked a 30 gal tag was $2 each. So it’s a good deal from our view point to take a few seconds to throw paper,metal and plastics into the blue bags and then blue bin. Food waste goes down the macerator except bones and grease. We throw out one or two 13 gal bags a week of actual trash the rest is taken for free. It’s a win win system.

https://www.tricountyind.com/tci-news/yes-it-all-goes-in-the-same-truck-2564


38 posted on 08/25/2024 10:40:59 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: Lockbox

Literally 5 seconds of saying Gemini are wind turbine blades not recycled... Google AI’s top four results. At least be up date with boomer FUD and lore.

They are in Europe and are here in the USA as well now the DOE was the first result from the AI.

https://www.energy.gov/eere/wind/articles/carbon-rivers-makes-wind-turbine-blade-recycling-and-upcycling-reality-support

https://iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/06/14/wind-turbine-blade-recycling-is-underway-in-iowa/

https://www.up-to-us.veolia.com/en/recycling/recycling-used-wind-turbine-blades

https://www.offshorewind.biz/2023/02/08/newly-discovered-chemical-process-renders-all-existing-wind-turbine-blades-recyclable/


39 posted on 08/25/2024 10:52:18 AM PDT by GenXPolymath
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To: GenXPolymath
Take a good look next time if it has two sides it’s a split body.

Yeah--like I said, I tried to give them the benefit of the doubt.

The trucks are the old-style--just trash, no split. Trash can emptied on top of the blue "recycling" waste.

40 posted on 08/25/2024 11:35:08 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
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