Posts Tagged ‘plastics’

I am doing whatever I can do to go green. In fact, my girl scout troop did a badge for this. We collected a bunch of plastics and we turn them in to some random company to make a toy that they were going to going to give to charity! I just want to see some new ideas. So post an answer about what you do to go green and what you think about global warming!

If you are going to post something negative, don’t post anything at all.

Here in Ireland we have 3 bins for refuse collection: Green bin for food, organic waste etc. Blue bin for recyling (papers, plastics, cardboard etc) Red bin for glass. Trying to figure out whether you put lightbulbs in the red bin? A lightbulb isn’t all glass though. And if not where do we put them?!!! We’re not so green that we use candles : P Thanks.
If you don’t put bulbs in a glass recycling bin then where do you put them?

I am doing a science fair project and need to find a website that can help with researching plastics. I need to find one that tells me how much each plastic (spoon,forks,knives,etc.) affect the environment.

I am doing a science fair project and need to find a website that can help with researching plastics. I need to find one that tells me how much each plastic (spoon,forks,knives,etc.) affect the environment.

And to those who say recycling can be more expensive, I say if the prices go up enough as they will inevitably do, then recycling will actualy become much cheaper when compared to starting from stratch.
My point is, nobody can deny the Earths resources will run out even if global warming is proved wrong.

Obviously one can argue we should not have to cut Carbon levels but think for a minute? Fossil fuels are generally rising in price because they are getting harder to find. Also the prices of some metals where getting rather high before the financial crises and I think the are beginning to pick up again. I’ve heard stories of buglers going to great lengths and taking the copper from the wires of the High Speed Rail and the lead from old church roofs. Plus if the price of petrol goes up enough people will attempt yo steal it from your car.

Plus many (if not all) plastics are made form oil and if we run out of oil then we cannot make new plastic. And I’m sure many of you know how much fun Lego bricks and such are for children, besides the fact that we can’t live without it because think how many things use plastics. The very keyboard I used to type this question or the speakers connected to my computer. Also think about the effects plastic has on the environment. We can cleary see how it damages ecosystems. Plastic isn’t technically bio degradable in most cases since it can take hundreds of years apparently simply because Mother Nature can’t cope with it. If we recycled it then it would save us from making more. If we put it in a landfill it goes to waste and we could make much better use of it by recycling.

It’s all very logical really. Even a society that doesn’t cut Carbon should be reusing and thus recycling. The benefits are undeniable.
Instead of constantly clamouring about Carbon I think the new buzz word should be recylce. If we can sell that properly Carbon emissions will be reduced anyway.

lately i noticed i have lot of plastic material that i throw away….is it even worth recyling the fact that it cost more to recylce than to produce new plastics?

Assuming that we are not realistically going to give up our high-tech, consumer societies any time soon, would it be better to have some of the most heavily-polluting processes out in space? This would seem to be a major savings to the earth’s environment. Mining and manufacturing, along with the heavy energy usage that goes with them, are a major cause of environmental destruction on earth. Raw materials could be mined and processed in space, then the processed materials sent back to earth (gliding to the earth’s surface like space shuttles do). The sun could provide the energy, and the moon and asteroids would be the major sources of materials. Except for oil (for plastics) virtually every other raw material can be found throughout the solar system. What would be some other arguments for and against doing this?

I live in Connecticut. I know you can make money with scrap metal and soda cans. What about papers? Other plastics besides soda bottles? I know I can recycle them but can I make some money by doing it? Say I bring in 500 pounds of paper will I get anything for it? What about 300 pounds of #1 & #2 plastic? Thanks in advance for any information.

I am currently doing a research report on the science of e-waste. What kind of a textbook would help me out best – environmental science or ecology? I am looking for a book that explains HOW chemicals like mercury, lead, cadmium, along with plastics, affect the environment.