I'm nostalgic for the good old days when we actually had recycling here!!

These days in New Orleans we're just glad that our trash gets picked up at all- recycling hasn't quite come back yet unfortunately.

it used to be that people would pay 5 cents per gallon for used oil. now it costs $1 per gallon to get rid of used oil.on top ofthat you pay an "environmental fee" on new oil purchases.where i work has a customer that takes the used oil (for free) and filters it, and burns it in his diesel truck.


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14% of people know that.

never attribute to conspiracy that which can amply be attributed to the actions of a bunch of greedy stupid self serving men in power

Here in my part of Scotland the local company called Barrs have always had the bottle deposit/refund scheme. We call/ed them Glass Cheques .

Hey I remember Barrs, they used to deliver bottles of pop to my Nanna's house, Irn Brw and the like, I think they tasted a lot better in glass bottles than the current cans or plastic bottles.

Batty


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Good show,fellow BoTonian's!

So far "good" seems to be the line of thinking.To which I am in agreement.Thank you all for grounding me with your honesty,it is the one thing that I appreciate most.

This entire idea of mine was conceived back in the 80's when I was foreman of a framing crew that was rebuilding home's and business's after the hurricane Andrew disaster in the Greater Miami area.A dozer would push the entire neighborhood into a pile,it would then be loaded onto truck's and away it went.

The truth is,that if we had been allowed to reclaim some of the building material's we probably would have save the insurance company's a pile of cash.(Now I am getting into the personal injury and workmans compensation area of business which was in the main reason why we were not allowed to do so)A good part of what was needed to build a structure was sitting right in front of us."Go fight with the insurance outfit's"is what my super told me when I brought it up.My last name is not Bush so I don't tackle the absurd.I know when conflict is pointless.

Now back to the point.I have 12 acre's that is what we call "scrub".Up until a couple of week's ago I had no use for it.Until a neighbor asked if he could use the spot to temporarily keep all his building supply's for an arched ribbed quonset, while his yard site was being prepared for constuction.After his material's were delivered the bell's went off.DING!

So now we have his quonset built and I am going to fence off part of my 12 acre's for the storage of any reclaimed building material's.I am going to start off with only local stuff.(no need to burn gas and time if it is found locally and used locally)I intend to seek,acquire and store these material's over the winter and perhap go full bore come spring.

I have already found customer's that are willing to part with entire building's or have a pile of this and that just sitting around."Come and get it out of the way,and it's your's for free" So that is exactly what I will do.

Then there is the other side of the situation,folk who have suffered a loss of their home's or a part of it,and simply can not afford to rebuild at the price of new material.

I have many friend's in the construction field that I rely on as my consultant's in this,and they all support the idea and have even offered to call me when there is some way that they can contribute to the inventory.

Still going through all the legalese of the matter with my lawyer sister.(the most blunt and direct person I've ever had the pleasure to know)So it is still in the womb ,so to speak.

Tiger,I sure do like your shredded plastic pit idea.Not a complicated process,geothermal element's would have the product juiced in no time.This is a seriously excellent,and simplistic waste saving method.Do you think we could get the EPA to see this as clearly as we do?That is another adventure,maybe next year.

I am pleased to know that I am not the only one that is concerned about the state of our wastefulness,but I already sort of had that impression about our member's here at BoT.

Now off to the plastic bag issue.There are a few community's that have outlawed the use of plastic shopping bag's and I stand and applaud any such action taken by any community at every level.To much effort is never enough.There is a bunch of hemp wearing,granola muncher's that I consort with,that macrame shopping bag's into hammock's,mat's,car cover's and what not's.They twisted and knotted a cozy for a 67 VW Beatle.Very crazy bunch that keep me grounded and human.

Keep up the recycling all,my kid's thank you for it.

From the composter,Daddio.


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That which lives
Is coming,and makes a noise

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