Do you all think we are getting a little carried away?
Recycle plastics, but not 1 or 6 and wash B4 using energy (but most plastic packaging is 1 or 6)
We can recycle those.
Recycle batteries, yeah, I need to drive 20 kms to the special battery bin
What battery bin? Mine go in the trash because there is no bin.
Recycle paper, but they put in dump anyway because costs more to ship than the net value
Our recycle paper gets used.
Recycle cans, but they only want aluminum and wash them first
We can recycle all cans.
Gasaholll but it takes away from the food chain
Don't idle vehicles more than 15 mins (subject to fine) but gov't exempted: LEO's idle for hour while at dunking donuts, we get fined)
Recycle bottles (5 cent deposit but not on wine or booze as wine consumers are more ecological , Hah!)
Nope, they have better lobbyists. Wine bottles are 15 cents here.
Save electricity, use timers and compact florescent bulbs, Yeah gov't buildings are all lit up 24/24
Compact florescent- but don't recycle as they contain mercury ???
I return those to the store, but I think they get dumpstered.
Anti freeze, there is no $$ in it for them, so you figure out where to dump.
Apparently.
We have 2 recycle bins here, one for trash the second for recycle and now they want a third for 'compostable' (food stuffs) but nobody wants the compostable dump site in their neighborhood.
Who can blame them?
Why go after the little guy, the consumer, why not the source as in ban all plastic packaging, mandate renewable materials only!
This works, and stops waste at the source. See "Better Lobbyists" above, and shoplifters get fingers cut off.
CAFE regs sounds like a cool solution to fuel savings, OK helps but while I can't figure out how to calculate it I am willing to bet that the bulk of crude oil actually goes to producing all our fancy plastics and other synthetic materials.
Our 2006 Honda Civic, 2-dr, manual gets 40 mpg. So, seven model years later it is still more than competitive on mileage.