How many of us make sure to recycle all resources that are recycleable

[dahunan]

I wish I could answer yes to all of these

 

[charrison]

i recycle metals as that is about the only market that is capable of sustaining itself. I think that is about to change for the plastics recycling market as there exists some automated plastic sorting machines.

 

[dahunan]

Can we imagine how many plastic water bottles get thrown in the trash cans each day.. I am sure it is an amazingly large number

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: dahunan
Can we imagine how many plastic water bottles get thrown in the trash cans each day.. I am sure it is an amazingly large number

Probably quite a bit. But there still needs to be an effective way to sort what gets thrown away.

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dahunan
Can we imagine how many plastic water bottles get thrown in the trash cans each day.. I am sure it is an amazingly large number

Probably quite a bit. But there still needs to be an effective way to sort what gets thrown away.

I would think we could have found one by now if we really cared?

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: dahunan

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dahunan
Can we imagine how many plastic water bottles get thrown in the trash cans each day.. I am sure it is an amazingly large number

Probably quite a bit. But there still needs to be an effective way to sort what gets thrown away.

I would think we could have found one by now if we really cared?

It is not a matter of caring, it is a mater of economics. For the most part it has been cheaper to produce new virgin plastic rather than recycle plastics. As I said earlier this is about to change.

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dahunan

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dahunan
Can we imagine how many plastic water bottles get thrown in the trash cans each day.. I am sure it is an amazingly large number

Probably quite a bit. But there still needs to be an effective way to sort what gets thrown away.

I would think we could have found one by now if we really cared?

It is not a matter of caring, it is a mater of economics. For the most part it has been cheaper to produce new virgin plastic rather than recycle plastics. As I said earlier this is about to change.

Hello.. What you care about is where you put your time and money..

IMO you are too focused on short term gains...

What would happen in this world if we actually thought through the impact of something and prepared for the end result before we ever took action to begin it.

 

[Engineer]

With the city lowering trash service to one day a week last year and charging for extra service vs FREE recycling service, it was a no brainer. Just throw the paper, plastic, metal, etc. into the blue can (no bag needed) and push to curve. Couldn't be simpler.

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: dahunan

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dahunan

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dahunan
Can we imagine how many plastic water bottles get thrown in the trash cans each day.. I am sure it is an amazingly large number

Probably quite a bit. But there still needs to be an effective way to sort what gets thrown away.

I would think we could have found one by now if we really cared?

It is not a matter of caring, it is a mater of economics. For the most part it has been cheaper to produce new virgin plastic rather than recycle plastics. As I said earlier this is about to change.

Hello.. What you care about is where you put your time and money..

IMO are too focused on short term gains...

What would happen in this world if we actually thought through the impact of something and prepared for the end result before we ever took action to begin it.

Well if vifgin plastic is 10times more expensive to produce than recycled plastic, there is very little incentive to recycle. For a long time i think recycled plastic was just being thrown into the same landfills as normal garbage.

But as of right now there is technology that is capable of sorting plastic so that recycled plastic can be made at 1/10th the cost of virgin plastic. IF this process is what it is claimed to be, plastics will be in high demand for recycling.

 

[dahunan]

How hard was it to figure out that plastics can be re-used? AND even if it wasn't YET economically resonsible that someone could have realized that it would become Necessary.. even if not at a economic profit?

By the time we had drinks in plastic bottles hadn't we already been to the Moon and used an Atomic Bomb?

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: dahunan
How hard was it to figure out that plastics can be re-used? AND even if it wasn't YET economically resonsible that someone could have realized that it would become Necessary.. even if not at a economic profit?

By the time we had drinks in plastic bottles hadn't we already been to the Moon and used an Atomic Bomb?

There really are no technical problems with the physical process of recycling plastic. The problem lies in the sorting of plastics. SOrting has been labor intensive, which has kept plastic a more expensive than creating new plastics.

 

[dahunan]

You are correct.. I just think if we would have spent more time trying to figure out a sorting process that we would have found one earlier.. now the landfills and ocean are filled with plastics that will almost never breakdown

I wish I would have thought of it a long time ago and kept all the plastic to myself

 

[dahunan]

BTW, is there much in your life that does not evolve around economics

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: dahunan
BTW, is there much in your life that does not evolve around economics

Everything does, even if you dont like it.

 

[Shangrila]

i recycle, but only because I have to

 

[dahunan]

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dahunan
BTW, is there much in your life that does not evolve around economics

Everything does, even if you dont like it.

I don't think it has to..

But I meant you seem like you are possibly more connected to economics/finances/currency/accounting than anything else .. not that that is a bad thing.. just hoping that there is some balance for you

 

[charrison]

Originally posted by: dahunan

Originally posted by: charrison

Originally posted by: dahunan
BTW, is there much in your life that does not evolve around economics

Everything does, even if you dont like it.

I don't think it has to..

But I meant you seem like you are possibly more connected to economics/finances/currency/accounting than anything else .. not that that is a bad thing.. just hoping that there is some balance for you

I know a little about alot of things!