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Recycling Rethink: What to Do With Trash Now China Won’t Take It
Wall Street Journal ^ | December 19, 2019 | Saabira Chaudhuri

Posted on 12/19/2019 10:06:42 AM PST by karpov

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To: meadsjn

Load it on a rocket and point it towards the nearest black hole.


41 posted on 12/19/2019 11:47:05 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: karpov

Anyone here recall school paper drives? They’d park a semi-trailer out front and parents would drop off bales of old newspapers.

I think our school got a few new sets of basketball goals out of one.


42 posted on 12/19/2019 11:53:02 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: karpov
And, China has been dumping in the Pacific for years. I would guess that is how trash that originated in Denver is eaten by sea turtles in the Pacific.

The last time I looked at a map, Denver was a long way from the Pacific Ocean.

This is meant to be sarcasm.

43 posted on 12/19/2019 11:59:20 AM PST by Parmy
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To: Beagle8U

“What do they do with it? They made a ‘oil dripper’ wood furnace and they mix diesel fuel in the old oil to thin it and they burn it to heat the garage!”

In my youth I used to hang out with some guys that owned a shade-tree mechanic garage and heated their place with used motor oil drip furnace.

The black smoke that belched out of the chimney was Dicksonian.


44 posted on 12/19/2019 12:02:05 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Buckeye McFrog
It was being dumped someplace in China,

Yea, right into the ocean. I think I read that 85% of the ocean pollution of plastic is coming from the Asian continent with China being the #1 polluter and Indonesia #2......

45 posted on 12/19/2019 12:16:02 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Never take a centipede shopping for shoes)
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To: Rebelbase

They work great if they are designed right.

The oil dripper has a flow-control valve so it’s just a small drip of oil going into the top of the wood furnace.

As long as there is oil going in the wood just acts like a wick but don’t burn. The drip of oil is all the fuel used.

If it runs out of oil the wood catches fire and will burn up.

Used right very little oil or wood is needed to heat the building all night.


46 posted on 12/19/2019 1:09:36 PM PST by Beagle8U (It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.)
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To: Beagle8U

These guys had a 55 gal. drum with a flue pipe out the top, input for oil drip into a shallow metal bowl and a an access door to light it. They’d drip a bit into the pan and hit it with a blow torch to get it to light.


47 posted on 12/19/2019 2:43:46 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: karpov

YOU BUILD HOMELESS SHELTERS OUT OF IT !!!!

Seriously these libtards havent the imagination of a boiled clam

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48 posted on 12/19/2019 2:57:40 PM PST by elbook
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To: bigbob

It’s theft? Oh boy, now you really got me shaking in my boots. Oh wait, damn it, I just pissed my pants too out of fear of being arrested.

Seriously, garbage thrown into such containers do not originate from the people that own such containers. Take a gas station, people come in, fill up, and dump the trash they accumulated from other purchases. Is that theft?

Take the shopping center, the trash cans are placed there so people do not dump their trash in the parking lot. Anything actually purchased in the shopping center goes home before the bags, boxes and other trash are separated. The same applies to Walmart.

The fact that I am putting in a little more than the average person does not make me a thief. If I am a thief, then so is everyone else that uses such a trash container.

Now if we went to such places without buying anything, then maybe you are close to being right. But the places we make those Walmart bag size deposits we always buy something.


49 posted on 12/19/2019 5:26:23 PM PST by redfreedom
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To: karpov

I refuse to play the recycling game.

I just sent the article to my mayor.


50 posted on 12/19/2019 6:58:11 PM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: wally_bert

Just got off the phone with my wife. I’m traveling for work and asked her to take out the yard waste.

She doesn’t think I should have filled our unused city issued recycle bin for leaves.

It holds lots of leaves and I certainly wasn’t using it for anything else.


51 posted on 12/19/2019 7:08:24 PM PST by cyclotic (Democrats must be politically eviscerated, disemboweled and demolished.)
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To: youngidiot
Shoot trash into outer space!

Sounds appealing but as yet eminently impractical: https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-we-launch-trash-into-space

52 posted on 12/20/2019 5:46:13 AM PST by daniel1212 ( Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

Toss the trash into volcanos!


53 posted on 12/20/2019 5:59:05 AM PST by youngidiot (God save the President!)
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