The industry's awareness that recycling wouldn't keep plastic out of landfills and the environment dates to the program's earliest days, we found. "There is serious doubt that [recycling plastic] can ever be made viable on an economic basis," one industry insider wrote in a 1974 speech.
Yet the industry spent millions telling people to recycle, because, as one former top industry insider told NPR, selling recycling sold plastic, even if it wasn't true.
"If the public thinks that recycling is working, then they are not going to be as concerned about the environment," Larry Thomas, former president of the Society of the Plastics Industry, known today as the Plastics Industry Association and one of the industry's most powerful trade groups in Washington, D.C., told NPR.
In response, industry representative Steve Russell, until recently the vice president of plastics for the trade group the American Chemistry Council, said the industry has never intentionally misled the public about recycling and is committed to ensuring all plastic is recycled.
The term "RMS" stands for "Root-Mean-Squared", also called the effective or heating value of alternating current, is equivalent to a DC voltage that would provide the same amount of heat generation in a resistor as the AC voltage would if applied to that same resistor.
Good morning! Today is September 11th! 🗽 🇺🇸 One generation later. Hard tobelieve that 1⃣ 9⃣ years has come and gone since that day when I was a freshman in college 🎓. Next Friday is 7 PM Sunset 🌆. And then the days only get shorter at an accelerating rate. Light drizzle and 60 degrees in Delmar, NY. 🌧️ The air smells like diesel smoke and silage. 🚜 The milk is good in the coffee ☕. Autumn is coming. There is a north breeze at 8 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 56 degrees. The skies will clear around 9 am.
It’s amazing how fast a generation comes and goes, 👨👨👧👦 how that morning with the deep blue skies in Plymouth Sundance 🚘 was a half lifetime ago, how much different it was being a freshman in college and all the freedom of being young and in the big city entailed 🎓. So many things have changed while so many other things remain the same. 🇺🇸
My cynical outlook on America hasn’t changed or my criticism of the boot lickers 👢 hasn’t changed. You can believe in America and our freedoms without worship 🛐 of jack-booted thugs. Freedom ain’t about the worship of government workers, it’s the right to be left alone from the bullies. 🐺 Two decades later I still turn to Amy Goodman and Democracy Now for a lot of my news 📰. Such good reporting on the days after September 11th. She is so short the one time I met her, and gotten a lot older and gray. But haven’t we all.
Today will be mostly cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing 🌞, with a high of 71 degrees at 4pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 18th. Maximum dew point of 56 at 7am. North wind 8 to 10 mph. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 87 degrees. The record high of 98 was set in 1931.
I have a Zoom Meeting at noon today which I’ll probably go down to the park 🏞 to do. It’s a nice change from the library when the weather is nice. I bet once the leaves change it will be really nice. 🍂 I also should
Solar noon 🌞 is at 12:53 pm with sun having an altitude of 51.7° from the due south horizon (-19.1° vs. 6/21). We’ve almost lost twenty degrees in sun altitude from the first day of summer. 📐A six foot person will cast a 4.7 foot shadow today compared to 2.2 feet on the first day of summer. The golden hour 🏅 starts at 6:36 pm with the sun in the west (270°). 📸 The sunset is in the west (277°) with the sun dropping below the horizon at 7:13 pm after setting for 2 minutes and 55 seconds with dusk around 7:40 pm, which is one minute and 46 seconds earlier than yesterday. 🌇 The best time to look at the stars is after 8:16 pm. At sunset, look for clear skies 🌄 and temperatures around 63 degrees. The dew point will be 46 degrees. There will be a north breeze at 7 mph. Today will have 12 hours and 40 minutes of daytime, a decrease of 2 minutes and 50 seconds over yesterday.
Tonight will be clear 🌃, with a low of 45 degrees at 6am. Eight degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical night around September 30th. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm in the evening. In 2019, we had mostly clear skies in the evening, which became light rain by the early hours of the morning. It was somewhat humid. It got down to 51 degrees. The record low of 36 occurred back in 1875.
Tomorrow will be sunny 🌞, with a high of 71 degrees at 3pm. Three degrees below normal, which is similar to a typical day around September 18th. Maximum dew point of 50 at 12pm. Calm wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon. A year ago, we had cloudy skies in the morning with more sun in the afternoon. It was humid. The high last year was 68 degrees. The record high of 94 was set in 1947.
Looking ahead to Sunday, showers likely, mainly after 5pm. ☔ Mostly cloudy, with a high near 73. South wind 9 to 15 mph. 🌦️Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Maximum dew point of 63 at 4pm. Typical average high for the weekend is 74 degrees.
As previously noted, there are 3 weeks until Average High is 65 🍂 when the sun will be setting at 6:34 pm with dusk at 7:02 pm. On that day in 2019, we had partly cloudy, rain showers and temperatures between 75 and 49 degrees. We hit a record high of 85 back in 1927.
It annoys me that it’s hard to get anywhere in the wilderness – and be free of one industrial noise – be stuck listening to the noise of airplanes flying overhead. ✈While motor vehicles, generators and bicycles are prohibited in wilderness areas, no such prohibition exists for airplanes flying overhead.
One of things that most sticks out in my mind after September 11th was when they grounded the planes during that two day period after the tragedy.🔕 It made the sky quiet, it eliminated the jet trails that we’ve all just gotten to assume are normal. September 11, 2011 was a particularly clear day, and without airplanes going out, it made the sky even bluer and purer.
I don’t know if it’s practical to pass a law making wilderness areas no-fly zones.🛬 Certainly, that would get a lot of opposition from the airplane industry. Another option might be banning airplanes on holidays or Sundays, but that would also get the druthers of the traveling public who has places to go, relatives to visit, business to conduct. But it would be nice to give the air a break from the constant noise and pollution from air planes.
