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Yates County residents encourage DEC to modify, revoke Greenidge permits over plan to expand bitcoin mining – Fingerlakes1.com

Andy | September 23, 2020

Yates County residents encourage DEC to modify, revoke Greenidge permits over plan to expand bitcoin mining – Fingerlakes1.com

A group of Yates County residents has asked state environmental regulators to modify, suspend or revoke Greenidge Generation’s operating permits to reflect the power plant’s rapidly developing role as an off-the-grid data center that “mines”�Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency.

The company won the air and water permits in 2017 on the basis of its stated plan to operate as a peaker plant providing backup power to the electric grid.

Those numbered symbols on single-use plastics do not mean ‘you can recycle me’ | Oceana

Andy | September 23, 2020

Recycling Myth of the Month: Those numbered symbols on single-use plastics do not mean ‘you can recycle me’ | Oceana

Three arrows chasing each other in a triangular loop: For decades, the consuming public has recognized this symbol as a promise that “this package can and will be recycled.” However, the perceived promise of those interlocking arrows is a hollow one, as most plastic products – save for those with the numbers one and two on the bottom – are not recycled in any significant amount.

The arrows with numbers that you find on your soda bottle (usually a No. 1 plastic made with PET, or polyethylene terephthalate), your yogurt tub (often a No. 5 made with polypropylene), and other everyday products are part of the Resin Identification Code (RIC) system that was created by and for the plastics industry in 1988. Each number signifies a different category of plastics – of which there are seven in total – and this system was designed to tell recycling facilities what type of resin can be found in any given object. As it turns out, they were never a guarantee that the item in question would be recycled.