Posted on 03/09/2019 7:18:11 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
“The oceans remain the most effective means of disposing waste.”
Agreed!
I grew up and still live in Wisconsin. People that live along the bluffs of Lake Michigan pay others to dispose of their evergreen Christmas Trees and other lumber off the edge of the bluffs as it helps stop erosion and makes great fish habitat.
As a hobbyist fisherwoman, I can’t remember when I’ve caught a big old Bass that WASN’T hanging out in downed trees along the shoreline. ;)
If these Enviros are so much SMARTER than the REST of us, why aren’t they looking to Mother Earth for information and advice and EXAMPLES? Yeesh!
Green on the outside, Commie RED on the inside, that’s why!
I know of those ladies! Such a smart, compassionate ‘recycling’ project.
Maybe you should send that video on to AOC? Nah. She already knows everything about everything, so you’d just be wasting her time. *SNORT*
When in Canada, I lived in an apartment tower.
At a designated hour a few days after Christmas,
we’d take the dried out Christmas tree onto the
balcony and toss it over, watching the tree fall
many stories. It was neat, and sure beat hauling
a needle-shedding mess through the hall to the elevators
and down to ground level.
And then when the snow melted and the water rose you caught a lot of Bass right off your balcony? Sweet! ;)
What? Snow melts?
I have always thrown all the trash into the dumpster. Did not matter if it said Recycle only as only one garbage truck showed up and dumped both dumpsters trash/recycle items into the back of the truck.
My sister was able to get a free stove from 1952 in Dec 2017 that someone giving away. They wanted to upgrade their kitchen. The stove still works.
GE stove model jbt28g 1952
http://davidswebsite.com/stove/ge_stove_model_jbt28g_1952.jpg
67 years old.
WOW!
That is in EXCELLENT condition!!!!!
My sister said the only thing that did not work was the clock. GE still has spare parts for this stove.
My son was just telling me that it takes more energy to recycle glass than to turn sand into glass. Maybe if we go back to the days of just washing and reusing the soda bottles it would be worth it - but melting them down isn’t.
My mom (died a few years ago at 95) recalls the “cheany” man - the rag man. (I think the “cheany man” (sp?) had to do with them typically being Jewish?)
He was the favorite as he had the horses. Although I think the ice-man had horses too?
My mom tells the story that she collected tin foil for a long time. Would go to the neighbors, etc. Finally she had a ball the size of a basketball iirc. She was so proud, and couldn’t wait to see how much the rag man (junk man really) would give her for it.
“I’ll give you two pennies.”
“Humfph - I’ll just keep it myself then!”
After she died we were cleaning out her fancy home. There must have been 20 sheets of tin foil in the drawer under the oven. All washed and pressed out flat!
She was a child of the Depression for sure.
Funny - I still feel guilty when I place tin foil over a tray of food and throw it away a few days later.
It was sort of near our little country town. The grand opening they had a tour and free hot dogs and soda. My fiance thought it was okay.
The following year, now wife, she enjoyed the opening of the new reservoir better.
They had free hamburgers!
I miss living in the country! Although I still love my wife. (”Hey honey - ya wanna go to the grand opening of the new bridge!?”)
Since it seems only America gets the climate change and pollution and whatnot lectures.....
Why not stop importing millions of people?
In fact, let’s export people to the third world that uses so much less resources. All greenies first in line out the door.
- only using lib logic
We could add a plaque "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Meh, the clock. A small thing that doesn’t affect the stove.
Our microwave has a keypad display that’s shot, you can’t read it, but it still works just fine.
The new display would cost over $100 dollars so we just punch in what we want and it does what it’s supposed to.
It simply costs more to repair an item than to manufacture the latest item, with all the upgrades, off the automated assembly line.
Human labor is simply too expensive to spend on repairs.
Cars last much longer than they used to. Most things last longer.
I can buy an excellent shovel for $10. A handle to replace a broken one costs nearly that much, leaving only a dollar to pay for the half an hour or more it costs to repair it.
Our technology has simply moved to a place, where a great many repairs are inefficient and a waste of human time and energy.
The time and energy it costs to place a heaver bottle back into the system, costs more than simply making and using a new, lighter bottle.
Yes, cars do. But I have not noticed the same for appliances.
Even the sales people, when buttonholed, will admit the same.
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