Can i know about recycled products ( Archived) (10)

Hi,

I think the best book ever writen about that is "cradle to cradle" by michael Braungart & William mcDonough

ISBN 978 90 5594 577 1

Bey

Try car boot sales or garage sales, they recycle loads of rubbish

In the UK they have a different view, recycling plants are designed to make money for those that work there rather than help the environment.
For example, my local council dump has an area for old gardning equipment, I happened to be there and saw a petrol mower, I asked if I could take it and rebuild it as it would have been ideal for my garden, but was told it was against council regulations to give or sell anything from the dump, two weeks later at a local car boot sale there was the same guy with the lawn mower selling it. when I questioned him he became aggressive and very threatening.
I now have no time for recycling

Yep, thats the best way to recycle in my book, now in the UK I understand that if you accidentally put the wrong item in a recycling bin at your home you will be fined.
My guess its just another way to tax people, you pay tax when you buy and now tax when you throw it away

America gets criticized for being wasteful and we are in a lot of ways but in most parts of the US recycling is practiced at a very high rate. You can bring bags of leaves to the dump and they get piled up in rows 30 feet high and it all turns to compost and in the spring you can go back to the dump and load up on this compost for your garden and not a penny changes hands. Here in Virginia the land fills accept garbage by the truckload from New York City because NYC has no land left for a landfill. VA charges NYC for this and we use this garbage to generate methane gas which is used to generate electricity for human consumption. It's a win win for us. Everything is recycled from drain oil to old antifreeze.