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Today's Haul:
- 1 name tag - garbage
- 1 plastic dinner plate - re-use
- 1 plastic cup - recycle
- 2 paper towels - worms
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Day 319 - Saturday 11/15/08
Friday, November 14, 2008
Day 318 - Friday 11/14/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 chips bag - garbage
- 1 cork from wine bottle - recycle
- 1 plastic grape juice bottle - recycle
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Day 317 - Thursday 11/13/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 sticker from fishmonger- garbage
- 2 lbs of paper from mail - worms/recycle (this has been piling up in my office over time)
- 1 plastic bag of egg noodles - recycle
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Day 316 - Wednesday 11/12/08
Todays Haul:
- 1 syrup container Number 7 other - recycle
- 1 pastic naan bag - recycle
- 1 cardboard pizza box - recycle
- 1 paper bag - worms
- 1 tape from paper bag - garbage
- 1 chinese food takeout container - garbage
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
November 15th is America Recycles Day So Bring Out Your E-Waste
Four days from now, on Nov 15th, the National Recycling Coalition will be celebrating it's 11th annual America Recycles Day, a day dedicated to moving Americans towards recycling more and buying recycled products. They have a very cool website with all sorts of resources including a Recycling 101 and a pledge that you can take to recycle more. Make sure to see what's going on in your area and join in.
There are a ton of things going on here in California, but the biggest one near me is happening in Carson and involves ASL Recycling and Nokia. We all know who Nokia is, but ASL recycling is really one of those companies that's doing pretty huge things. They were brought to my attention by a friend of mine, and are really making a difference. ASL operates hazardous waste/e-waste pickups almost every weekend here in Cali, and in an average month collects some 600 tons of e-waste, diverting it from landfills, and recycling 98% of what they collect. How amazing is that? Check out the great How We Do It function on their site, it's really fascinating and you'll notice, doesn't include shipping e-waste to Asia, which is nice. Very cool.
So come on out to a local event on the 15th, bring your e-waste, and take the pledge to recycle more!
Dave
Space Junk Falls Harmlessly In South Pacific
Hilary sent this in (thanks Hilary). I'm not to sure what's harmless about ammonia coolant falling into the ocean, but Im guessing they meant it didn't hurt any people directly. Looks like space is getting too full of stuff too!
Dave
November 3, 2008
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A refrigerator-sized piece of space junk fell harmlessly into the South Pacific Sunday night, according to NASA.
The junk was a tank full of ammonia coolant on the international space station that was no longer needed. Astronaut Clayton Anderson threw it overboard during a spacewalk in July 2007.
Space station program manager Mike Suffredini said Monday that the debris splashed down somewhere between Australia and New Zealand Sunday night. The tank had served as a reserve supply of spare coolant at the space station since 2001.
Day 315 - Tuesday 11/11/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 bunch of human hair from haircut - on lawn for birds
- 10 nail clippings from fingernails - in garden
- 1 emergen-c packet - garbage
- 2 toilet paper rolls - worms (these have been sitting in the bathroom for a while)
- 1 cardboard cereal box - recycling
- 1 plastic cereal bag - recycling
- 1 used q-tip - worms
- 1 plastic toy tag - garbage
- 1 metallic salt packet - garbage
Monday, November 10, 2008
Day 314 - Monday 11/10/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 plastic dish washing cleaner bottle PETE 1 - recycle
- 1 plastic juice bottle HDPE 2 - recycle
- 1 plastic pasta bag - recycle
- 1 bag of movie popcorn - garbage
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Website of the Month - Gettin' Around
OK, I know I'm running behind but please forgive me, things have been truly nuts. This months site of the month was supplied by a blog reader named Kathleen (thanks Kathleen!) who sent Gettin' Around my way.
I don't talk a lot about transpo on this site but anyone who knows anything about internal combustion engines knows that in the waste department, they are king! So enter Gettin' Around. Self described as "one couples personal challenge to find and use alternative transportation in the Pacific Northwest" it's a pretty cool site.
Basically, they decided to try and shun "standard" forms of transportation for transpo that was a little lighter on the ole carbon footprint-o-meter, namely biking. Every week they report how many miles they have gone on bike, bus, and walked, and then what the costs were versus driving, gas saved, etc, to really give you a full idea of what they have accomplished (or not).
I like what they are up to because, quite like me, they seem like to regular folks (well maybe not like me then) who just figured there must be a better way, and then set out to do it. Very cool if you ask me.
So head on over to Gettin'Around and see what they're up to.
Dave
Week 45 Pics
OK, I have no idea how I did this but somehow my weeks got ll messed up. I've been having a computer/pic problem and it has completely thrown my counting off. Such is life eh? I can tell you this much, the tallying is back on track and these pics are from about ten minutes ago.
Dave
Day 313 - Sunday 11/9/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 plastic pasta bag - recycle
- 2 door flyers - recycle
- 1 packet nasal saline rinse - garbage
Day 312 - Saturday 11/8/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 foil food container - recycle
- 1 parking pass - worms
- 1 emergen c packet - garbage
- 1 zycan plastic applicator - garbage
- 1 door flyer - worms
Day 311 - Friday 11/7/08
Today's Haul:
- 1 butter spread tub and top PP% - recycle
- 1 chips bag - garbage
- 1 set of film sides - worms
- 1 staple from film sides - garbage
- 1 emergen c packet - garabge
- 1 plastic carrots bag - recycle
- 1 vegetable boullion cube wrapper - garbage
- 1 vegetable boullion cube package - recycle
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