365 Days Of Trash: Week 46 Pics

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Monday, November 17, 2008

Week 46 Pics

6 comments:

Ron Strelecki said...: I bet you could get a manpowered chopper/shredder/grinder somewheres. It looks to me like the majority of what you are storing is air.; November 17, 2008 at 10:01 AM
Dave said...: No doubt. It would be funny to shred everything at the end f the year.

Dave; November 17, 2008 at 10:08 AM
Ron Strelecki said...: The first thing they do with plastic when they recycle it (assuming it gets recycled, I imagine it mostly gets land-filled even when you put it in the magic blue bin) is chop it up into small pieces. I really think a shredder/chopper/grinder would help. Assuming you aren't going to reuse the bit, that is...; November 17, 2008 at 11:39 AM
Dave said...: My only concern is that, not knowing which plastic is whihc, they may not take it. I'm meeting with the recyclers in December and will bring it up though.

Dave; November 17, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Anonymous said...: Aren't you a bit worried about the toxins in paper, not that it will kill the worms but that they will wind up in your vegetables?; November 17, 2008 at 3:59 PM
Dave said...: The worms actually digest pretty much everything and poop out good stuff. I read a piece a while back about an experiment in India where they had worms break down toxic waste. They were able to digest 70% of it and the compost was releatively clean.

Who knew?

dave; November 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM

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