Posts Tagged ‘landfill’

Reuse, reduce, recycle. For my family it’s become *the* mantra. This certainly applies to plastic shopping bags. Purchasing pre-made reusable shopping bags is super, but why throw away money when you can make your own with materials you’ve probably already got on hand? Yup, those plastic shopping bags!

The URL below gives just one example of how these can be recycled.

http://www.marloscrochetcorner.com/round%20plastic%20bag%20tote.html

A friend turned me onto that page a few months ago. It was just the inspiration needed to get me exploring other possibilities for turning this type of landfill fodder into practical items. Since then I’ve made huge storage bags for my kids’ Legos, pouches for plastic lid storage (tacked inside cabinet doors- no more lid-palooza!), and other neat items. Maybe a laundry bag next? Who knows?

There are many ways to recycle plastic shopping bags besides crocheting. Tell us yours, thanks!

I have a bunch of old VHS tapes I don’t want to end up in the landfill but every place I’ve checked costs a fortune to recycle.

I can recycle everything else but seems like such a waste to throw these in the landfill.

I believe it should be my choice if I want to recycle or not. Why don’t we just make a landfill out of the grand canyon that should hold trash for many years.

Which do you feel is more important? Conserving water during a drought and foregoing recycling items that must be washed or rinsed out prior to recycling, or, using scarce water resources to prevent potential recyclables from taking space in a landfill?

Which is most important?

I have random scraps of titanium in my garage amounting to about 5 pounds. Since it is such a strategic resource, I can’t bear to throw it in the landfill. Can I recycle it anywhere in Maryland without spending lots of money?

There are proposals to green London’s hi rise flat roofs. The fungi that convert the paper shreddings which are sent to landfill would make an ideal lightweight substrate for converting to soil. What is the best variety?

I am told that this is the first year that the Green Bay Packers have recycled the tons and tons of plastic bottles from after each football game. It is about time in my opinion! But, I heard that they are now saying it is "too hard" and will not be doing it for playoff games. Any ideas for what I should do? I live in GB and to question the Packers is not allowed since they are GOD, and the media is afraid to ask them hard questions. Or is it no big deal to dump the plastic from a few games into the landfill?

I just saw an article that gives a bunch of reasons NOT to use corn-based Ethanol. Especially since it’s one of our base grain foods. Why aren’t they going with Biodiesel – the veggie van, that was a great example. Plus in Texas, there’s a ton that runs all of their garbage trucks off greenenergy made from their landfill. Which they’ve in turn made into a fuel processing area. If you watch YouTube there are tons of alternative energy choices we could be making in the US. How do we get more people to discover what we have the ability to do now; then while we set it up and use it, continue to try improving it.
Why is it that things that make sense are so hard to get acted upon?
The largest problem with Ethanol is that it uses up fossil fuel to produce it. It isn’t efficient in production or in use. It doesn’t equal out production cost/energy to consumption/usage. So besides taking away a food source (read labels – corn, corn syrup, etc ) it also is more costly to produce it. Especially since they’re using old energy to create it. While biodiesel has been used for decades on farms and is cheaper to produce. So political seems to be the key to backing it would seem. How about a grassroots movement to choose biodiesel? Just as many states have chosen to honor the Kyoto plan dispite the gov’t not signing it. If they won’t do what we want, we enforce it state by state. If the gov’t has stopped working for the people – then the people need to start working for themselves.

A stray cat peed on some old rags and I can’t get the smell out after washing them. Any ideas on where I can recycle these? I don’t want to fill up a landfill if I don’t have to.