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Is it almost curtains for America
With the government gangsters and the alphabet agencies along with a (so called)president that is Soo corrupt and in bed with China and a weak military. Trump was trying to build back up the military then ole uncle Joe comes right in and leaves all of our expensive military equipment for our enemies,hmm, now tell me is this for America or for our enemy. And then time and time again letting our enemies beat us and give them $$ to do it. Smells like COMMUNIST, SOCIALIST, MARXIST'S, FASCISM to me.Whoever can't see this or add up what the joe regime is cooking, don't want to or are themselves what I said in capital letters,PERIOD !
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Plastic Recycling Is a Disaster and a ‘Myth,’ Report Says
Greenpeace warns in a new report that we've wasted decades and billions of dollars pretending single-use plastic recycling is feasible or desirable.
A new report from Greenpeace USA paints a dire picture for recycling efforts in the United States: They’ve fundamentally failed.
"The plastics and products industries have been promoting plastic recycling as the solution to plastic waste since the early 1990s. Some 30 years later, the vast majority of U.S. plastic waste is still not recyclable,” the report reads. “The U.S. plastic recycling rate was estimated to have declined to about 5-6% in 2021, down from a high of 9.5% in 2014 and 8.7% in 2018, when the U.S. exported millions of tons of plastic waste to China and counted it as recycled even though much of it was burned or dumped."
In 2020, Greenpeace USA published a survey of plastic recycling in America that looked at about 370 material recovery facilities (MRFs) as part of a larger survey of America's capacity for domestic plastic waste reprocessing. One key result was that only some types of plastic containers could actually be recycled—specifically PET#1 and HDPE#2—but that MRFs regularly accepted other types of plastics, then disposed of them because there was no "end-market buyer." But it gets worse: PET#1 and HDPE#2 are hardly recyclable themselves, falling well below a 30 percent threshold established by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastics Economy initiative.
Recycling plastic waste fails for a variety of reasons that Greenpeace boils down to: the impossibility of collection and sorting, the environmental toxicity, synthetic compositions and contamination, and a lack of economic feasibility.
There are thousands of different types of plastics with different compositions that cannot be recycled together, let alone sorted. Plastic recycling facilities are likely to catch on fire because plastic is flammable, and living near one poses a huge health risk—take Turkey, which became a new plastic waste export destination after China banned imports and saw an influx of EU waste expose workers and communities to new health risks. Plastics can also absorb toxic chemicals, further complicating recycling efforts and increasing their toxicity. On top of all this, recycled plastic costs more than new plastic because of the aforementioned factors encouraging companies to simply make more instead of pursuing alternatives.
Greenpeace points to a 2022 interview with Craig Cookson, senior director of plastics sustainability at the American Chemistry Council, where Cookson insists it "is a little bit more in its infancy compared to paper and aluminum and steel.” That’s an interesting way to talk about an industry that has existed for about three decades. But this sort of rhetoric, which Greenpeace dismisses as a delaying tactic, tracks with what recent investigations have found.
In 2020, NPR and PBS Frontline spent months looking into the recycling industry and found that "the industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't work—that the majority of plastic could be, and would be, recycled—all while making billions of dollars selling the world new plastic." In 2022, The Atlantic ran an essay titled “Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work” which argued the industry was lying to the public about fundamental roadblocks to plastic waste recycling in part because of how profitable keeping up the facade was.
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A new report from Greenpeace USA paints a dire picture for recycling efforts in the United States: They’ve fundamentally failed.
"The plastics and products industries have been promoting plastic recycling as the solution to plastic waste since the early 1990s. Some 30 years later, the vast majority of U.S. plastic waste is still not recyclable,” the report reads. “The U.S. plastic recycling rate was estimated to have declined to about 5-6% in 2021, down from a high of 9.5% in 2014 and 8.7% in 2018, when the U.S. exported millions of tons of plastic waste to China and counted it as recycled even though much of it was burned or dumped."
In 2020, Greenpeace USA published a survey of plastic recycling in America that looked at about 370 material recovery facilities (MRFs) as part of a larger survey of America's capacity for domestic plastic waste reprocessing. One key result was that only some types of plastic containers could actually be recycled—specifically PET#1 and HDPE#2—but that MRFs regularly accepted other types of plastics, then disposed of them because there was no "end-market buyer." But it gets worse: PET#1 and HDPE#2 are hardly recyclable themselves, falling well below a 30 percent threshold established by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation's New Plastics Economy initiative.
Recycling plastic waste fails for a variety of reasons that Greenpeace boils down to: the impossibility of collection and sorting, the environmental toxicity, synthetic compositions and contamination, and a lack of economic feasibility.
There are thousands of different types of plastics with different compositions that cannot be recycled together, let alone sorted. Plastic recycling facilities are likely to catch on fire because plastic is flammable, and living near one poses a huge health risk—take Turkey, which became a new plastic waste export destination after China banned imports and saw an influx of EU waste expose workers and communities to new health risks. Plastics can also absorb toxic chemicals, further complicating recycling efforts and increasing their toxicity. On top of all this, recycled plastic costs more than new plastic because of the aforementioned factors encouraging companies to simply make more instead of pursuing alternatives.
Greenpeace points to a 2022 interview with Craig Cookson, senior director of plastics sustainability at the American Chemistry Council, where Cookson insists it "is a little bit more in its infancy compared to paper and aluminum and steel.” That’s an interesting way to talk about an industry that has existed for about three decades. But this sort of rhetoric, which Greenpeace dismisses as a delaying tactic, tracks with what recent investigations have found.
In 2020, NPR and PBS Frontline spent months looking into the recycling industry and found that "the industry sold the public on an idea it knew wouldn't work—that the majority of plastic could be, and would be, recycled—all while making billions of dollars selling the world new plastic." In 2022, The Atlantic ran an essay titled “Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work” which argued the industry was lying to the public about fundamental roadblocks to plastic waste recycling in part because of how profitable keeping up the facade was.
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The Edmund Fitzgerald sunk in Lake Superior 47 years ago today
Gordon Lightfoot immortalized the wreck in a song that attributes it to the gales of November come early.
What are the gales of November? And did they come early that night in '75?
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.
For 17 years, Edmund Fitzgerald carried taconite iron ore from mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Toledo, and other Great Lakes ports. As a workhorse, she set seasonal haul records six times, often breaking her own record. Captain Peter Pulcer was known for piping music day or night over the ship's intercom while passing through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers (between lakes Huron and Erie), and entertaining spectators at the Soo Locks (between Lakes Superior and Huron) with a running commentary about the ship. Her size, record-breaking performance, and "DJ captain" endeared Edmund Fitzgerald to boat watchers.
Carrying a full cargo of ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. McSorley in command, she embarked on her ill-fated voyage from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth, on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. En route to a steel mill near Detroit, Edmund Fitzgerald joined a second taconite freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson. By the next day, the two ships were caught in a severe storm on Lake Superior, with near hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet (11 m) high. Shortly after 7:10 p.m., Edmund Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Canadian (Ontario) waters 530 feet (88 fathoms; 160 m) deep, about 17 miles (15 nautical miles; 27 kilometers) from Whitefish Bay near the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—a distance Edmund Fitzgerald could have covered in just over an hour at her top speed.
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What are the gales of November? And did they come early that night in '75?
SS Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in Lake Superior during a storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29 men. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. She was located in deep water on November 14, 1975, by a U.S. Navy aircraft detecting magnetic anomalies, and found soon afterwards to be in two large pieces.
For 17 years, Edmund Fitzgerald carried taconite iron ore from mines near Duluth, Minnesota, to iron works in Detroit, Toledo, and other Great Lakes ports. As a workhorse, she set seasonal haul records six times, often breaking her own record. Captain Peter Pulcer was known for piping music day or night over the ship's intercom while passing through the St. Clair and Detroit rivers (between lakes Huron and Erie), and entertaining spectators at the Soo Locks (between Lakes Superior and Huron) with a running commentary about the ship. Her size, record-breaking performance, and "DJ captain" endeared Edmund Fitzgerald to boat watchers.
Carrying a full cargo of ore pellets with Captain Ernest M. McSorley in command, she embarked on her ill-fated voyage from Superior, Wisconsin, near Duluth, on the afternoon of November 9, 1975. En route to a steel mill near Detroit, Edmund Fitzgerald joined a second taconite freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson. By the next day, the two ships were caught in a severe storm on Lake Superior, with near hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet (11 m) high. Shortly after 7:10 p.m., Edmund Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Canadian (Ontario) waters 530 feet (88 fathoms; 160 m) deep, about 17 miles (15 nautical miles; 27 kilometers) from Whitefish Bay near the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—a distance Edmund Fitzgerald could have covered in just over an hour at her top speed.
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Thinking like a man….?
There are many dating and relationship books on the market, but not all of them explain things logically. "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" may have its audience but it didn't do anything for me at the time that I read it.
I’m a fan of Steve Harvey and his many perspectives on the male-female dating dynamic. His book “Act like a Lady, Think like a Man” was very popular and spawned at least 2 movies from it. He used his past television show to promote his theories about the Dating/Marriage dynamic, and successfully hosted segments that explored the dating process, and guided women through love-relationships and marriage, as well as other family-oriented interactions.
Thinking like a man is something that I only learned to appreciate within the last 10 years or so, as I had more time then to really focus on trying to understand the male perspective/s. Steve Harvey explained how men viewed money/finances, women, relationships, sex and so much more, and the way that he explained them seemed very logical, to me. I may not have agreed with his perspectives on everything, but I did learn a lot, which broadened my understanding considerably (at least, I think so).
But I have questions. Does ‘thinking like a man’ cause conflict with ‘acting like a lady’? If I thought like a man, wouldn’t I be tempted to act like a man? Would a man think that I was competing with him, or that I was more masculine (than feminine) and so ‘friend-zone’ me? Should men learn to “Act like a gentleman, Think like a Woman”, in order to balance out the equation?
If thinking like a man is helpful to women, then thinking like a woman should be helpful to men.
Isn’t that a logical deduction, men?
I’m a fan of Steve Harvey and his many perspectives on the male-female dating dynamic. His book “Act like a Lady, Think like a Man” was very popular and spawned at least 2 movies from it. He used his past television show to promote his theories about the Dating/Marriage dynamic, and successfully hosted segments that explored the dating process, and guided women through love-relationships and marriage, as well as other family-oriented interactions.
Thinking like a man is something that I only learned to appreciate within the last 10 years or so, as I had more time then to really focus on trying to understand the male perspective/s. Steve Harvey explained how men viewed money/finances, women, relationships, sex and so much more, and the way that he explained them seemed very logical, to me. I may not have agreed with his perspectives on everything, but I did learn a lot, which broadened my understanding considerably (at least, I think so).
But I have questions. Does ‘thinking like a man’ cause conflict with ‘acting like a lady’? If I thought like a man, wouldn’t I be tempted to act like a man? Would a man think that I was competing with him, or that I was more masculine (than feminine) and so ‘friend-zone’ me? Should men learn to “Act like a gentleman, Think like a Woman”, in order to balance out the equation?
If thinking like a man is helpful to women, then thinking like a woman should be helpful to men.
Isn’t that a logical deduction, men?
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CS Blogs
During the short period of time that I have been a member of cs, the blogs have never been at such a low point.
Mainly faceless wankers blurting out all sorts of insanities and the worst part is that it's one or two that have many different profiles that are giving this site a bad name.
I have always promoted CS and my reward was meeting a number of excellent well mannered ladies and gents. What is the goal of these wankers I ask myself cos making friends isn't one of them.
If you don't like what you read here by all means keep going.
Have a great weekend.
Mainly faceless wankers blurting out all sorts of insanities and the worst part is that it's one or two that have many different profiles that are giving this site a bad name.
I have always promoted CS and my reward was meeting a number of excellent well mannered ladies and gents. What is the goal of these wankers I ask myself cos making friends isn't one of them.
If you don't like what you read here by all means keep going.
Have a great weekend.
Oval Office
Has anyone ever seen President Biden in the Oval Office? Past Presidents have always given speeches from there.
Just asking for a friend.
Just asking for a friend.
Stopping the count...
Top story this morning states that Trump supporters have gathered around vote counting centers in Michigan and Arizona in an attempt to stop counting of mail-in votes.
This is beginning to read like the royal family in a third world country attempting to block democracy so they could remain in power.
"We've counted enough votes... I win!"
This is beginning to read like the royal family in a third world country attempting to block democracy so they could remain in power.
"We've counted enough votes... I win!"
Trump sez...
I actually did some work last night until the power failure. More later on that. Maybe...
I see during the night, Trump claimed victory, but he's trailing in the popular vote and electoral vote, wants all voting to stop, praised those who went to the polls to intimidate others and states this is an embarrassment to our country.
Where you expecting any less than that from the president of the United States?
A friend said "It's all over except for the voting"
I see during the night, Trump claimed victory, but he's trailing in the popular vote and electoral vote, wants all voting to stop, praised those who went to the polls to intimidate others and states this is an embarrassment to our country.
Where you expecting any less than that from the president of the United States?
A friend said "It's all over except for the voting"
Jordon peterson discussions
Jordon peterson is really on form in this interview...the interview is regarding the dutch farmers protests and other protests...the disruption to the supply chain....the wef cult attacking meat production and wanting all the great unwashed/the majority...to eat bugs or starve
the wef unelected cult...want all of us to own nothing and them to own everything..the megalomaniac control freaks in the 1%...really do think billions will let this happen..but i say support the farmers and make a stand
imagine a nightmare reality...of worldwide communist dictatorship and any freedom...a long distant memory...imagine not having freedom of choice...freedom to eat the foods you enjoy...freedom to travel where you want too...freedom of expression...freedom of speech...freedom of creativity....owning nothing of your own....living each day....just surviving and having nothing to look forward too
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