Walking to shopdrop Pocket Survival Guides by Packard Jennings – Southern Exposure
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The numbers are all the years Southern Exposure has existed
Packard Jennings – The Pocket Survival Guide
Participants are invited to meet at SoEx for a 20-minute workshop to fold instructional pamphlets on how to devise an emergency raft out of recycled product packaging in case of a catastrophic flood- a consequence of consumer waste and mass production that contributes to pollution, and global warming.
Once the Pocket Survival Guides are folded, participants will enter various stores and install them on consumer products to replicate “instant savings coupons.” Future customers will be happy to find their household purchases subverted by public art!
Pocket Survival Guide is also in NYC through Dec 19th, 2009
His website
centennialsociety.com/durham.html
Oil Recycling Why We Should Do It
Oil is made from crude oil, a valuable natural resource that is highly sought after. Oil is also a very serious pollutant so it is absolutely essential that any waste oil from the likes of car or boat engines or oil fired central heating systems for example, is disposed of in the proper manner. Despite awareness campaigns and legislation, many irresponsible people are still pouring waste oil down drains or dumping it on the roadside, which is not only illegal, it will contaminate the earth and water it comes into contact with.
Nearly all oil that is poured down a drain will find its way into rivers, streams and ultimately the sea and have a devastating effect on the environment and wildlife. Similarly if it is poured onto the ground it can find its way into the groundwater beneath.
Why recycle your waste engine oil?
Oil can be recycled and reused which helps preserve the earths natural resources for future generations
Recycling waste oil saves energy and money
Recycling oil helps protect the ground from pollution. If waste oil enters into the ground it contaminates the soil and kills off bacteria, micro organisms and earthworms, basically everything that is required to regenerate the soil
Even a tiny amount of oil is harmful to water, for example only 1 litre of oil can pollute literally millions of litres of water and kills fish, birds and other creatures. It is also an extremely costly exercise to clean up
Burning the oil is not the solution either as burning oil causes air pollution and is of course illegal too without the proper facilities and authorisations
When you have waste oil, store the oil in sealed containers and dont mix it with any other substances like paint or solvents as this can cause problems and make it very difficult to recycle. Storing it in containers also helps prevent accidental spillage. If you do accidentally spill oil, absorb smaller spillages with sand or another absorbent material like sawdust and dispose of the solid waste in an oil bank. Do not hose spilled oil away with water. For larger spills, contact the environmental agency or your local environmental health department immediately.
Where can you recycle your waste oil?
The Environmental Agency has established an oil care campaign to promote environmentally friendly disposal of waste oil, which basically means recycling it. Waste engine oil can be recycled in any of the oil banks situated across the country.
What happens to recycled oil?
When waste oil is taken for recycling, it is emptied into tanks and processed to filter out any unwanted elements or particles. The oil can then be reused in power stations, furnaces, boilers, cement and lime kilns and heaters as an alternative source of fuel. It might also be laundered, which means it is cleaned up and sent back to the supplier for reusing, or it can be refined to produce new oil.
What about cooking oil?
Oil banks are not for used cooking oil. Large amounts of used cooking oil from factories, restaurants and food outlets can be recycled so contact your local authority for details on what facilities are available for disposing of waste cooking oil in your area. Recycled cooking oil can be refined and used to make detergents or converted into bio fuels and some organisations will collect the waste free of charge or will buy it from you.
At home, small amounts of cooking oil can be disposed of along with household rubbish but make sure it is cooled first. It is important not to dispose of used cooking oil down the sink as it can cause problems and blockages when it solidifies. Some local authorities have facilities for collecting and recycling used cooking oil from domestic sources, contact your local authority to find out if this applies in your area.
Our duty
Under The Environmental Protection Act 1990, there is a Duty of Care placed on all industry producers of waste oil to ensure that all reasonable steps are taken to look after any waste generated and prevent its illegal disposal by others. On an individual basis, we all have a moral as well as a legal obligation to protect the earth and our environment from unnecessary contamination of any kind and as such, it is vital that we dispose of our oil in an environmentally friendly way.
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Portable A/C without the windows exhaust installation, cheap AC alternative for your house in the hot season. In Canada, Bought mine on sale at CT for less than 500, I also found a cheaper version without the heating element (read about the heating options below) at the RCS and I think both well worth the money. With my installation, I went well beyond the manufacturer recommendations when I tested this Danby unit. Nonetheless, it’s a 5-in-one AC+heater+dehumidifier+air purifier+fan, hence you can use it all year round, you can also find it rebranded and more expensive at some bigger stores in Canada. The challenge in this video is to try if this unit can work in a unusual set up without involving my windows and if I can recycle the hot air waste to save energy. The unit proved to be working with no problem in both scenarios: plugged into the laundry drier’s exhaust pipe and blowing hot air in my basement. For heating and dehumidifieing the unit is not required to be vented outside (it is not a heating pump, just has a heating element). The demo in this video, the outlet hot air duct is plugged into a Y connector I bought at at the closest hardware store and merged the laundry dryer exhaust tube and the unit duct to the same air exhaust duct that blows the air out on the roof. Testing went fine, the unit does not fail because of exhaust superheat. Nor did it fail when I tested the basement installation. To actually use the dryer with the hot air waste AC set up on …
Video Rating: 4 / 5
