A million plastic bottles a minute

Ras

Honorable
Is recycling not done in the Americas at all ?

What about Asia and Australia..

Well. I have very good tap water here. I Never
buy any PET bottles anymore, anyways...

In Malaysia they do recycle. Here I have to separate the plastic bottles, glass bottles, tin can and rubbish in different plastic bags for the rubbish man to collect. The tap water here is also good, been drinking it since young.
 

Toroid

Founding Member
We have a California Redemption Value (CRV). You have to pay an additional 5 cents per container of plastic or aluminum. You actually get less than you paid in if you recycle them yourself.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
We in Australia have mountains of glass and plastic just sitting around after being recycled they are not getting the money for it these days they say and are just burying it at refuse dumps. What a waste. Watch this video it gives you the goss for recycling in Australia for 2017 its an eye opener.


Where I am from we recycle everything. But much of it I suspect goes to the county incinerator, where it is recycled into carbon dioxide and water.

My county has a co-generation facility (it generates ash and electricity).

This is the real key - high temperature incineration. We barely need a land fill.

Rather than creating high tech coal seams for future generations we free that carbon dioxide to go back into the air where it belongs.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
Is recycling not done in the Americas at all ?

What about Asia and Australia..

Well. I have very good tap water here. I Never
buy any PET bottles anymore, anyways...

I have never had a pet bottle or a pet rock.

Why were you buying pet bottles to begin with?
 

nivek

As Above So Below
My water comes from a well 50 feet from my house and 30 feet down, it hasn't killed me yet...
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
The images in the link were taken off Roatan an island off the coast of Honduras.
Caribbean oceans are choked by plastic bottles and rubbish | Daily Mail Online
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I never understood why countries with problem areas like this don't use a skimmer to pick the debris out of the water.
 

Toroid

Founding Member
They would have to load it onto barges, tow it to land and it would fill an entire landfill which cost millions to construct.
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
They would have to load it onto barges, tow it to land and it would fill an entire landfill which cost millions to construct.

Yup, they would have to load it on to barges. That is a basic transportation concept.

Are you anti-barge???

The barges could be self-propelled, they wouldn't necessarily have to be towed, but that is just a quibble.

Why??? in heaven's name would you put it in a landfill???

High Temperature Incineration is the ticket.

It recycles plastic into CO2 and H2O. Plus you can generate electricity.
 

Ras

Honorable
Yup, they would have to load it on to barges. That is a basic transportation concept.

Are you anti-barge???

The barges could be self-propelled, they wouldn't necessarily have to be towed, but that is just a quibble.

Why??? in heaven's name would you put it in a landfill???

High Temperature Incineration is the ticket.

It recycles plastic into CO2 and H2O. Plus you can generate electricity.

How do you generate electricity with plastic?
 

CasualBystander

Celestial
How do you generate electricity with plastic?

My county gets rid of most of its refuse at a high temperature incineration facility that uses the heat to spin turbines (a standard thermal power plant concept).

Plastics burn very well with forced air.

A high temperature incineration facility uses a little bit of natural gas and a lot of garbage in place of coal.

The Dickerson Plant produces 56 MW of power.
 
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3FEL9

Islander
I have never had a pet bottle or a pet rock.

Why were you buying pet bottles to begin with?

Cuz I was americanized at an young age like everyone else and drank gallons of Coca Cola..

Thats insane,, a multi billion $ sugar industry bringing poor health world wide
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Cuz I was americanized at an young age like everyone else and drank gallons of Coca Cola..

Thats insane,, a multi billion $ sugar industry bringing poor health world wide

Fake news...

I'm American and never drank gallons of soda, I rarely have drank the stuff...
 

3FEL9

Islander
Fake news...

I'm American and never drank gallons of soda, I rarely have drank the stuff...

Its not fake news. It 100 % true.. Coca Cola is US right ? Spending $$$$ on pushing their sugar abroad ?

You must have had good parents.. or been born smart :)
 

nivek

As Above So Below
Its not fake news. It 100 % true.. Coca Cola is US right ? Spending $$$$ on pushing their sugar abroad ?

You must have had good parents.. or been born smart :)

I meant the bit about Americans drinking gallons of the stuff, I'm sure some do but it's not an American thing even though it's a US company...

They don't even put sugar in their soda anymore, it's high fructose corn syrup they us as a sweetener...
 
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