Oil rigs missing in the gulf.
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I don't feel sorry for her in the least if any of the following apply:RedSS454 said:
She has a daily driver that gets less than 20mpg
She paid more than $2500 for her car
She has over $1000 on her credit card
She wears clothes that cost more than $25 per item
She eats at a restaraunt more than twice a week
She has a cell phone and a home phone
She has more than 1 illigitimate child
She goes to or buys movies more than once a month
Her children (if any) have a Play Station or X-box or something similar
She buys "name brand" products such as grocieries
She has cable TV or dish
She has high-speed internet
...and the list goes on. I'm guilty of a few on the list, but you won't hear me complaining I can't afford to get to work unless I've already sold off my unneccessary stuff (like the Chevelle) and still can't afford it.
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webfoot said:
heres the problem, you folks seem to think that because you put things in a bin and put them out for pick up, that they are being made into cashmere sweaters. the reality is, it is gone threw again at a site, then most of that is thrown away, because of color or content, that make it unrecyleable. then unfortunately, a lot of it is used to make new "one use items". the cashmere sweaters and lawn furniture you see made from recycled plastic is a very small portion of discarded plastic. also everybody is forgetting the housing booms around the globe and the carpet (petrolium derived) that goes in these homes, hotels, etc. ever see anybody recycle carpet? next time your at home depot, look how all the new tools are packaged. you buy a 2" socket, surrounded bu a sq. ft. of plastic. i know you guys do your best to recycle, but go down to the plant sometime and see the percentage of stuff that goes right back to the dump. you'd be surprised. we need some bright people to figure a way to melt down used plastic back to a fuel product.
dude- don't take the heat. that wasn't directed toward you in particular. the truth is that if cans and other containers aren't cleaned out they get tossed aside,a nd everything has to be seperated properly. some plastics aren't even recycled. only plastic food packaging is used for carpeting, becasue that's the highest grade plastic. there is a lot we don't know about what happens at the local recycling plant. the sorting process is strange and a lot is just sent to the landfill.webfoot said:
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webfoot said:
sorry you took offense, it wasn't meant as a slam. there have been several reports, by everybody from local news to pen and tellar, that very little of what you good people "recycle" actually gets made into anything other than another pos, that's used once and discarded. yes some paper and cardboard is recycled, but trees are renewable resources, and paper decomposes. aluminum is sometimes recycled, but if you read the lid of your bin. they usually say no styrofoam, styrene, grocery bags, etc...i know your doing the best you can, it's not your fault, it's suppliers fault for using too much plastic, that needn't be used. i can buy my sockets on a cardboard card, it doesn't have to be wrapped in 4 oz. of plastic....
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by the way guys, i should have preceded these posts with the fact, that i work for a plastics broker, in socal. i'm not just pulling this info out of my ear. i have first hand expierience. we sell about $28 million a year of plastic resin. most goes into one use crap, that we all could do without....my job is to deal with the costs of tranportation, fuel and supply, along with warehouse control. didn't want anybody to think i was just ranting. afterall i never rant....
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by the way guys, i should have preceded these posts with the fact, that i work for a plastics broker, in socal. i'm not just pulling this info out of my ear. i have first hand expierience. we sell about $28 million a year of plastic resin. most goes into one use crap, that we all could do without....my job is to deal with the costs of tranportation, fuel and supply, along with warehouse control. didn't want anybody to think i was just ranting. afterall i never rant.... that's a jooooke
No problem, I guess all these events are just making me have a s*%tty mood.
I clean my stuff before I toss it in the recycle bin, its disappointing that some of it gets thrown into the dump anyway.
Some states don't even have recycling, when I was in nebraska they just threw everything away, including beer cans. And those people drink a LOT of beer.
I clean my stuff before I toss it in the recycle bin, its disappointing that some of it gets thrown into the dump anyway.
Some states don't even have recycling, when I was in nebraska they just threw everything away, including beer cans. And those people drink a LOT of beer.
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webfoot said:
see that's the sad part, that people are trying to help, but once it leaves your place, it's bussiness as usual. it really needs to be stepped up, and i feel that recycleing should be implemented everywhere, but it should actually happen, not just be a source of income for people to throw something out after we already threw it out. plastic is a petrolium product, and maybe we should spend $ on systems that can use it as fuel, instead of spending $ trying to get cars to run on m&m's or k.f.c. it'll be funny, when we're out of oil, but have dumps full of plastic......
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