Posted on 01/19/2023 7:44:12 AM PST by grundle
right? i always wondered why it couldn’t be used in pavement...
Plastic is oil.
I don’t waste my time recycling. I only have so much life left. I am not about to waste it sorting trash so some bureaucrat can feel good.
I was in a popular European tourist area. They had six bins for “recycling.” The Euros would dutifully sort everything in to the proper bins. When the trash truck came the workers just threw everything in the same truck and drove off to the landfill. When I asked the hotel owner why do they bother with all the bins? He said because if they don’t have the bins the well trained Europeans would leave “recyclables” on the ground next to the bin thinking magical recycle fairies would pick up the cans and bottles.
I would assume that the plastic would still have to be broken down. Coal is pulverized to the point it’s like talcum powder. It’s not burned in chunks like people think.
I'm old enough to remember taking pepsi and coca-cola glass bottles back to the store to get the deposit on them back, and then go buy more pepsi or coca-cola.
The bottles used to get washed/sanitized and reused again, and again, and again. THAT's recycling.
Yeah but coal is a mineral and plastic isn’t. You heat it up a little and it will deform and pool like a semi-liquid. So I don’t think you have to do much work to get it to where you could burn it for power.
But burning it does produce rather noxious chemicals so that would probably be the main objection. You’d have to make sure you could capture those and not just pump them into the atmosphere.
My brother and I collected cans and discarded bottles to make money when we were young.
Lived in a subdivision outside a small town... walking along the “main” road looking in the roadside ditches when the weather was nice, with a few garbage bags made us spending cash. Of course we had other “adventures” as we walked the ditches as well, as all young boys do.
10 cents a bottle baby, they were gold back in the late 70s. Candy bar was about a quarter back then.
Every so often mom would pile our bags of cans and bottles into the back of the station wagon and we’d hit the recycling center and see what we got... Think we used to get around 15 cents a lb for the cans, and turn in the bottles at the grocery store for a dime each.
Easy money and pretty much free, and for a kid back then, netting out $5-$10 each for a few hours (if that) of “collecting” and goofing around.
Keep in mind $5 in 1978 is the equivalent of close to $25 today. Minimum wage was $2.65 an hour at the time. (Which is another story that the general conservative world view doesn’t want to touch.. 1978 minimum wage in todays dollars would need to be $12.00 today, and while the labor shortage has pushed many entry level jobs over that the federal minimum wage is still 7.25 an hour.. which would be the equivalent of $1.59 cents in 1978, or in other words the minimum wage today has the purchasing power of 60% of what it did in 1978.. but I digress).
Was a great time to grow up.
As long as stupid libtards feel good about separating and washing their trash it doesn’t matter they’re being scammed.
They like it
Just for kicks I looked up what they are paying for aluminum cans today... .31 a lb for unwashed cans.
So basically at that price, would be less than half the inflation rate since 1978 if you were do that today. Maybe I am not recalling the amount we got for the cans. but I want to say it was in the 10-15 cent range.
I’m so old, we only got a nickel per bottle. When deposits were phased out here, it was a dime per bottle.
Yea, they were a dime by the time me and my brother started gathering them up for money
As a kid it blew our minds someone just throwing them out of their car window when they finished them.
Cans, sure, no real value in a can, but the glass bottle was en easy dime.
Obviously cans were far more numerous than bottles, there were like finding gold, while cans were more a silver. Might find a few bottles a session, but cans galore.
I already know it’s a head-fake. We have a DUMP. We don’t have a ‘Recycling Center’ within 50 miles of us.
Our entire COUNTY is 20K people...and thousands of cows. We had a whopping 21 deaths OF OLD PEOPLE during CovidBS-19 while the rest of America was masking up and slathering themselves with hand sanitizer.
The ‘County Overlords’ (who are mainly Farmers, LOL!) aren’t going to spend money trucking our ‘recyclables’ elsewhere. They’d bury it on their own land if they thought they could get away with it.
*SMIRK*
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