Day: March 5, 2025

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The shed 🦌

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I was riding home yesterday and saw a decent size buck down in Norman’s Kill hollow by the waterfalls. Still had it’s antlers. But it’s getting to that time of year I was thinking I should put on my barn boots and start wandering the woods looking for sheds, maybe this weekend. After this rain, the snow is rapidly disappearing.

I thought about camping this weekend but it looks like after the rain it’s going to turn cold again. Plus after Saturday the time changes, which makes it much easier to get away for multiple nights without taking off from work early.

Vly Creek Reservior Watershed

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The Vly Creek Reservior has been subject to some controversy lately in the news, and has had issues with late season algea blooms during the mild start to he winter. It's a pretty small watershed.

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Recyclable Plastic Sunscreen and Glass is Trash ♻

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What a crock!

That’s what I had to think about the company I heard on the podcast advertising green cleaning products in glass. Have you ever even looked into glass recycling? While glass may be technically recyclable when segregated by color and material, most of it gets pulverized in compactors and MRF when they get it at best save the glass for building landfill roads – not even ordinary highways. Or more likely landfill cover or just dumped with the rest of the garbage.

Then I put some more sunscreen on and was looking at the sunscreen bottle and it prominently has the recycle logo on the bottle and the number two with HDPE printed on it. Well at least I know when I chuck it in a fire it won’t be stinky super toxic to burn like PVC but I can’t imagine any of those bottles are ever recycled – there just is no market or practical use for HDPE plastic contaminated with beach sand, sunscreen and in a form not easily processed into things like plastic lumber or t-shirt fiber resin. It’s trash.

Pennsylvania Municipality Type

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Pennsylvania has three primary types of municipalities - primarily rural townships, village-like boroughs, and cities. There is also one town - Bloomsburg town in Columbia County, two municipalities in Allegany County (Pittsburgh-area) -- Bethel Park and Monroeville and one municipality in Westmoreland County, Murrysville.

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