recycling

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County is taking on Pepsi and Coke for their role in plastic pollution. In a lawsuit filed Wednesday, the county alleged PepsiCo and Coca-Cola companies have misled the public about the recyclability of their plastic bottles and downplayed the negative...

The urine revolution: how recycling pee could help to save the world Your one-stop, pee shop: Drink beer, pee here and save the planet. Now, if we could just figure out a way to turn pee into something that can run things like cars and your refrigerator, we'd really be oil independent...

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I'll start the topic with a link dump: Circular Economy (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_economy E-Waste Offers an Economic Opportunity as Well as Toxicity (NYT): https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/05/magazine/e-waste-offers-an-economic-opportunity-as-well-as-toxicity.html...

San Francisco OKs toughest recycling law in the U.S. I throw out coffee grounds with the regular trash just about every day. I guess it's a matter of time before my antisocial, carbon dioxide emitting ways are also criminalized in Berkeley.

I just learnt via BoingBoing that Mazda recently turned $100m of new cars into metal shavings. The cars had been stored on a listing car-transporting ship for a few weeks, and no-one was sure whether the cars, though not obviously damaged, would be safe for the road. In our litigious society, I...

Thought you'd all like this. An article on the front page on my local free paper, the Stafford Post, entitled "Use your new bin or commit a sin": http://www.cryptpad.com/recycle.jpg "Local environmentalists have backed the Vatican after it confirmed 'polluting the environment' would result in...

Recently my faithful(non-denominational) dryer quit working for me. I bought it along with a washing machine back in 2000. Rather than call a repairman to fix it or replace it with a new unit, (replacement would most likely be cheaper), I decided to fix it myself. I troubleshot the problem down...

http://web.archive.org/web/20030704031804/http://www.americanrecycler.com/11wtc.html I post the archive.org link to the 2003 version because some of the images are broken in this pages current incarnation at http://www.americanrecycler.com/11wtc.html Read up, Truthers. Assuming you want some...

I hope this is in the right section of the forum - if not, any mod is welcome to please move it to the correct section. So I watched the episode of Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t where they talked about Recycling. I didn't buy it entirely, but it did raise some questions in my mind. As far as I can...

According to Wikipedia {the free encyclopedia} "recycling is the reprocessing of materials into new products. Recycling generally prevents the waste of potentially useful materials, reduces the consumption of raw materials and reduces energy usage, and hence greenhouse gas emissions, compared...

I haven't recycled one plastic bottle or piece of paper ever since I saw that P&T Bullsh!t episode debunking recycling. The thing is, that episode aired a few years ago and I was wondering if any new info has emerged refutting P&T's claims, like what happened with the second hand-smoking...

Searching through the archives here isn't bringing up quite what I'm looking for. I need information on the general environmental impact of Post-Consumer Waste recycling vs. virgin products for things like paper, glass, and plastics. Specifically, something that gives statistics and...

I've been catching up on Penn & Tellers Showtime series BS - and just saw their Recycling episode last night. I might have to watch the show again, but I think they were claiming that recycling paper is actually worse for the environment than simply throwing the paper away. The crux of...

Sorry if this is a repeat thread, but I didn't see it... I don't get Showtime, and haven't seen the episode, but my school newspaper ran an article to counter-attack a recent episode of BS: http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/topics.do?topic=r Whaaaaat?? Can somebody please summarize exactly how...

A newspaper article I read recently raised a few points on the commonly presumed benefits of recycling. Does recycling actually deliver real and tangible benefits for the environment, or can it be, as the article claimed, in fact harmful? Take recycling of paper products for instance. What's...

Enviros admit they were wrong. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/3/4/120527