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Come and take a walk with me thru this green and growing landWalk thru the meadows and the mountains and the sandWalk thru the valleys and the rivers and the plainsWalk thru the sun and walk thru the rain
Here is a land full of power and gloryBeauty that words cannot recallOh her power shall rest on the strength of her freedomHer glory shall rest on us all (on us all)
From Colorado, Kansas, and the Carolinas tooVirginia and Alaska, from the old to the newTexas and Ohio and the California shoreTell me, who could ask for more?
Yet she’s only as rich as the poorest of her poorOnly as free as the padlocked prison doorOnly as strong as our love for this landOnly as tall as we stand
But our land is still troubled by men who have to hateThey twist away our freedom & they twist away our fateFear is their weapon and treason is their cryWe can stop them if we try
~ Phil Ochs, the Power and the Glory
Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic
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.
Peak vs. Average vs. RMS Voltage
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.
Bird Flies Overhead
