Recycing
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No one recycles like the Japanese. On this day alone, one of three or four regular recycling days, there are the following categories
1) clear class bottles
2) brown glass bottles
3) green glass bottles
4) bottles of indeterminate colour
5) cans
The gentleman standing in the foreground listening to a walkman, is one of the local residents who is acting as the supervisor to advise the unwashed on how to seperate their rubbish and to make sure that people do it properly. Residents police themselves.
The city includes the regulation that all cans and bottles be washed before they are put out for recycling. I think that the energy required to pull the water up from our well to wash the aluminium can may invalidate the recycling. Already recycling is subsidised. But I think that the act of seperating and recycling ones rubbish encourages an awareness of the waste inherent in consumption that has an impact beyond the value of the can or bottle being put into the seperate crates.
Please see the others in the series.
L.A. County passes sweeping ban on plastic bags
The ordinance, which by 2012 will cover 1,000 stores in unincorporated areas, also will require supermarkets and pharmacies to levy a 10-cent surcharge per paper bag. Proponents see it as a model for California. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban plastic grocery bags in areas of the county under its jurisdiction, endorsing a broadly worded measure that proponents …
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Eco-clubs make the grade with Green
PORT COLBORNE — Geoff Green lives true to his name. The Canadian environmentalist paid a visit to Lakeshore Catholic High School on Wednesday where he spoke to eco-club members from each of Niagara Catholic District School Board’s 60 schools.[…]
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The long, strange and sometimes scary journey of old electronics
Coloradans send the majority of their electronic waste to community landfills, such as the Denver Arapahoe Disposal Site landfill operated by Waste Management of Colorado Inc. east of Aurora, rather than recycling the devices.
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