Materials and Waste 📍
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I really hate washing out containers for recycling ♻
Mayonnaise jars, peanut butter jars, pasta jars.
They all come in plastic these days. Increasingly thin plastic too as material science evolves. When they get used up, what is left is just a sticky residue that is difficult to remove before tossing in the recycling bin, requiring and wasting a lot of soap and water. They are just so much easier to chuck in a hot fire, let them turn into carbon dioxide that will become plant food. Especially when you know so much of urban recycling is a feel good scam. I can’t wait to own my own land out in the country.
Toilets of the World — The Toilet Guru
One of my fascinations of late has been with toilets and waste water treatment works. This website is a vault of knowledge about all things toilet and how people dispose and recapture the value in all poop and pee of the world!
NY 8 and the true cost of litter 🚮
I was walking a remote section of NY 8 the other day, noticing the various pieces of litter along the road side. Some of it is intentional garbage dumping – the worn out television and recliner, the lamp shade – but a lot of it is packing from go food – plastic water bottles, beer cans, burrito and burger wrappers, french fries holders like you get from many a fast food chain.
Probably very few people litter but many pass by this road, and the occasional burger wrapper and beer can out the window adds up. Probably far more toss the wrapper in their car’s backseat and then put it into a designated garbage can, emptied and hauled to the outskirts of the city to be added to the ever growing mountains of garbage.
Go food might make people happy but it’s a temporary high one quickly consumed and discarded. Often the prices at gas stations and grease pits are far marked up from a sandwich made at home or reusable water or juice container. Money wasted that could be invested towards improving your life and future. Money spent on fatty foods and intoxicating beverages and more generally garbage now littering our roadsides.
