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Season 2 - Ep. 2
Sleep might be our mental garbage removal service
There are to many types of Oreo cookies.
During the recent cold spell the garbage stopped but the mail did not, that's backwards.
Let's review this article - http://www.akronlegalnews.com/editorial/21382
Coffee shops ban plastic straws and consumers bring reusable bags to supermarkets — but the Gulf Coast's booming petrochemical industry has growing concerns about plastic waste being a threat to its business.
Big price swings continue to challenge the recycling industry. The price of mixed scrap paper, for example, has plummeted from $75 a ton in 2017 to basically zero, said Joe Pickard, chief economist at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
Much of the plunge is due to China, once the world's biggest importer of recyclable materials. China has stopped accepting a variety of mixed paper and plastic scrap, citing efforts to clean up the environment.
A Houston company called FCC Environmental has sorting equipment and a $25 million facility slated to open in March. For instance, if soda cans arrive in a plastic bag — which shouldn't happen in curbside pickup, but does — the machinery will open the bag and empty its contents. In older facilities, that bag could end up in the landfill.
FCC Environmental also will have optical sorting equipment that addresses the "Amazon effect," caused by customers receiving small cardboard boxes and not flattening them before recycling. Older machines may not recognize the 3D item as cardboard, instead discarding the box as trash.
A triangle with a number on the bottom of a plastic container does not automatically mean it's recyclable. Nos. 1, 2 and 5 are widely accepted in recycling programs across the country. Garden hoses and plastic bags, which can get tangled in sorting equipment, are always prohibited. Food-stained cardboard boxes are considered contamination, too.
"The next year or so will be challenging for recycling in the United States," said David Biderman, executive director of Solid Waste Association of North America, an organization of industry professionals.
One particularly promising alternative is chemical recycling. This turns plastic back into its building-block molecules, which can be recombined into new plastics without degrading properties as melting does.
How far are you from being killed by a cold spell?
Is it ok to call female dogs bitches?
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By Season 2 - Ep. 2
Sleep might be our mental garbage removal service
There are to many types of Oreo cookies.
During the recent cold spell the garbage stopped but the mail did not, that's backwards.
Let's review this article - http://www.akronlegalnews.com/editorial/21382
Coffee shops ban plastic straws and consumers bring reusable bags to supermarkets — but the Gulf Coast's booming petrochemical industry has growing concerns about plastic waste being a threat to its business.
Big price swings continue to challenge the recycling industry. The price of mixed scrap paper, for example, has plummeted from $75 a ton in 2017 to basically zero, said Joe Pickard, chief economist at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.
Much of the plunge is due to China, once the world's biggest importer of recyclable materials. China has stopped accepting a variety of mixed paper and plastic scrap, citing efforts to clean up the environment.
A Houston company called FCC Environmental has sorting equipment and a $25 million facility slated to open in March. For instance, if soda cans arrive in a plastic bag — which shouldn't happen in curbside pickup, but does — the machinery will open the bag and empty its contents. In older facilities, that bag could end up in the landfill.
FCC Environmental also will have optical sorting equipment that addresses the "Amazon effect," caused by customers receiving small cardboard boxes and not flattening them before recycling. Older machines may not recognize the 3D item as cardboard, instead discarding the box as trash.
A triangle with a number on the bottom of a plastic container does not automatically mean it's recyclable. Nos. 1, 2 and 5 are widely accepted in recycling programs across the country. Garden hoses and plastic bags, which can get tangled in sorting equipment, are always prohibited. Food-stained cardboard boxes are considered contamination, too.
"The next year or so will be challenging for recycling in the United States," said David Biderman, executive director of Solid Waste Association of North America, an organization of industry professionals.
One particularly promising alternative is chemical recycling. This turns plastic back into its building-block molecules, which can be recombined into new plastics without degrading properties as melting does.
How far are you from being killed by a cold spell?
Is it ok to call female dogs bitches?