Materials and Waste
The Remarkable Evolution Of Trash and All Its Dirty Secrets – Trash Cans Unlimited
Water Heater Trash Incinerator – HomemadeTools.net
Cool project and with a stack like that probably has a lot of good draft. Might want to add a copper coil to the top and recover some of the heat energy from the trash for heating water - free trash disposal and hot water would be sweet - or maybe a blower to better break down some of the plastics with less smoke. But at least with that unit your not likely to smell much yucky smoldering plastic trash.
10 products you may not realise are threatened by the CO2 shortage
In total, the world consumes about 80m tonnes of CO₂ per year. Annual CO₂ emissions are currently around 32 billion tonnes, but we have experienced the worst CO₂ supply shortage in decades in the UK. Most of the UK's CO₂ demand is met as a byproduct from the fertiliser industry that generally closes operations during the summer months. We do produce CO₂ from many other sources, but despite the development of CO₂ capture technologies, these are not deployed at the commercial pace needed to actually be able to use it.
Most people think of carbon dioxide as a waste product that is causing global warming but it turns out the world uses it for a wide variety of foods and industries. Often waste products are actually valuable products if can be processed and moved to an appropriate location.
What Really Happens When You Donate Your Clothes—And Why It’s Bad
What actually happens to your donated clothes is a very involved process with a lot of complicated layers, each worth taking the time to understand. Let’s start here: Contrary to popular (naive) belief, less than 20 percent of clothing donations sent to charities are actually resold at those charities. Generally, the other 80 percent is sent to textile recyclers who then determine the next cycle of the garment's life. Almost half of the donations will be exported and sold in developing countries, while the other half will be recycled into rags and household insulation. These actions are taken, primarily, because, as Elizabeth Cline, author of Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost Of Fast Fashion, explains, “There are just far more unwanted clothes in the United States than there is demand.” She goes on to outline: “Charities receive far, far more unwanted clothing donation than they could ever possibly sell in their thrift stores, so they have relationships with other textile sorting and exporting companies who can find a place to sell those clothes and find another market for them to go.”
Reusable containers safe during Covid-19 pandemic, say experts | Environment | The Guardian
But what do the plastic lobbyists say? Don't you think that their opinion is more important than the scientists?