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Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Originally Posted by rkb0305
I thought California required curb side recycling now (is that what La la land means? If not, sorry).
When we lived in California were required to separate our green waste, recycling, and garbage. We had 3 big cans. Here in Colorado we pay a few extra dollars/month for curb-side recycling, and always have more in that can than the garbage can.
Not all rental complexes have the curbside recycling as our trash is handled by a private waste management company. No containers for recycles are located anywhere on the premises. Don't have a car and the nearest facility is located two buses away so my stuff does not get recycled. If the manager decides to have recycling containers on the property, I will gladly place the appropriate stuff in them. Yes, I live in Los Angeles County, CA.
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Originally Posted by cowboyxjon
I don't recycle. It's not offered at my apartment complex even though residential homes in the city have curbside recycling. I did take my recyclables to a bin at my local grocery store for awhile but the bin was removed and I haven't bothered to find another.
We had a recycling facility behind our grocery store that was walking distance and I once carted my bags there. It has since been removed so the recycles will just have to be tossed out with the regular trash.
The thign that is upsetting is that the majoity of recycling is a frud once colected. Its like so much of the computer recycling programs. in the end it ends up as toxic waste in china and vietnam or another country.Left to some peasant to burn off and smell the toxic fumes to recover the precious metals.
I dont recycle, not because i dont want to, but because the garbage removal service does it for everyone in town when the trucks get to the recycle place/dump. I guess it provides some people with jobs which is fine by me.
Well I have curbside recycling so it really isn't a issue for me. What I found amazing is how the rest of my family has fallen in behind me to recycle.
When you start to analyze your garbage as recycling forces you to do, we are a very wastefull society!
I thought California required curb side recycling now (is that what La la land means? If not, sorry).
Not sure, but it was a nice 76 degrees here in my part of La la land (81 degrees at downtown L.A.). Went for a bike ride; no jacket, just a thin T-shirt. A nice, blue sky and gentle winds.
As for recycling, I put maybe 80% of my discards in the blue (recycle) trash can- newspapers, plastic containers, etc.
This Is What 426,000 Discarded Cellphones Looks Like
In addition to cellphones, this current exhibition includes light bulbs, oil drums, disposable batteries, prison uniforms, and much, much more. The gallery below contains a few examples, but check out his site for the full show, it's really astounding stuff (and often very clever). And for clarification, YES, OF COURSE THIS IS PHOTOSHOPPED. Nobody has 426,000 cellphones lying around for a photoshoot. This Is What 426,000 Discarded Cellphones Looks Like - Photography - Gizmodo
We live in a consumption society. The numbers are staggering, whether it’s how many cellphones and plastic bottles we discard, cigarettes we smoke, paper and plastic bags we use at the supermarket, or painkillers we pop. How can we imagine the quantities involved?
If you’re Seattle artist Chris Jordan, you pick a number, such as the number of cell phones that are retired in the United States every day, and figure out a way to show all 426 000 of them. Here, each speck of grey represents a phone, clearly visible in the original 150 cm x 275 cm picture. http://spectrum.ieee.org/telecom/wir...ded-cellphones
Location: The Chatterdome in La La Land, CaliFUNia
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Not sure, but it was a nice 76 degrees here in my part of La la land (81 degrees at downtown L.A.). Went for a bike ride; no jacket, just a thin T-shirt. A nice, blue sky and gentle winds.
Ah yeah ... It was a nice sunny day in the LA area! Nice change from all that rain we got so far this year.
Let's standardize reusable packaging and tax the heck out of the fancy throw away stuff. I buy wine directly from the winemaker in refilled 5 liter glass bottles and repour into 750ml bottles. Eliminates the 750ml bottles, manufacturing, transport and labelling. We can do this for anything from cereal to shampoo. We just don't.
We are trained to take a very wasteful process, pay through the nose for it and then spend our time trying to minimize the impact and pointing our fingers at each other for not being as good at sorting bottles as the next guy.
We need to dummy proof the entire process.
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A nice, blue sky and gentle winds.
