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By scrapping? How much space are we freeing up by keeping all these items out of the landfills? I was thinking about this the the other day because I remember reading an article about how fewer people buying newspapers makes less to recycle. how I got from point A to point B on that one I don't know lol.
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I don't know if anyone (the experts) could come close to guesstimating how much is kept out of there.
Just on our forum we have a few big players in this game, then there is all of them we don't even know about,,,
Mindboggling.
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Well, I'm shooting for 16 tons total weight at my yard this year. Not to say that a whole lot of the stuff I'm diverting wouldn't have been scrapped by someone else, but some wouldn't have.
My understanding is there's a coupla folks on this forum that handle 16 tons before breakfast!
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I love all the folks out there that put their bin of wine bottles out every other week and are taking the credit for saving the world.
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welllllll judging by all the schstuff taking up SPACE in my basement, sheds, carport, and garage...waiting to be sold, torn down, or turned in...IT's LOTZ
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since were on this mind trip do you think you have recycled the same metal more than once? It is a giant circle and the landfill is the only break in the circle. Landfills are old and useless almost everything can be recycled nowadays and we need to stop wasting our resources.
The only number i could find was 74 million metric tons but that number seems awfully low
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ummmmm bawahahahahahahahhaha imma tapin my feetOriginally Posted by hobo finds
I know I KNOW...it's sad
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Honestly Not as much as you would want to beleive the problem isN't metal in landfills or even ewaste it"s platics glass and other products that just don"T
decompose
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Plastic. That's the nasty one. I'm sure combined we keep millions of pounds out. Most metal breaks down, Most glass breaks down. I don't feel bad about burying stuff that's somewhat natural. Plastic is used and tossed way too much.
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Exactly and it all can be recycled
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By me the city will take #1 - #7 plastic and glass in there recycling program. ABS and ridged plastic as well. The good thing is now several yards are buying some of these items. Glass bottles / jars.04 lb, #1 plastic bottles .30-.40 lb, #2 plastic jugs / bottles .02 -.10
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Seems it merely went from smaller operations to mega conglomerate(likely a large part of which is government/aka-taxpayer subsidized/funded) industrial mode, much as our farming community has done. Recycling has also increased dramatically in the same time, much of it going back to China(undoubtedly at greatly reduced shipping rates) in what would otherwise be empty ships
http://postcom.org/eco/facts.about.landfills.htm
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There are some guys/gals I have seen on this forum that have kept a yearly tally of all the material they have run over the scale in a year. I have no idea of my own personally.
But when I heard a simple fact a few months back that "One aluminum can recycled can power a table lamp for 3 hours" I know that with literally TONS of materials yearly by all of us here- we are making a huge impact on mother earth!
I'm so into scrapping.. When my Steel Toe Boots Wear out, I cut the Steel out of them and recycle the Toe!
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I was surprised toward the end of last year when I asked for a YTD, they handed me a book a few minutes later detailing every last item I turned in.
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My understanding is that not only does an aluminum can power a table lamp for 3 hours that same aluminum can has the ability to be recycled an infinite number of times and it is approximately 60 days from its arrival at the scrap yard until that can is back on a store shelf.
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Its something like, "It takes the same amount of energy to make a glass bottle (200gms) as it does a Ali can (15grams). But, the Ali can can be recycled 12 times for the same amount of energy it took to make it in the first place.
But a glass bottle, well its rubbish, its not recycled & theres a everlasting legacy of scars & cuts from broken glass bottles"
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well on the crts the only thing that makes the landfill is the tube, so im probably saving them better than 50% by volume / weight
i recycle 50% of our household trash, so that helps alot also. I put out a 50gal trash can and a 50gal recycling can and both are full every week
I do escrap mostly so i only run about 5 tons of shred a year.
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What we sell to the yard is mostly going to go back in to the earth where it came from. About 4 years ago the yards around here took plastic at about 25% now 1% . The only true way to say we save the land fill is to fess up with what we also don't want - plastic - ECT - ECT - till then we are still part of the problem.
If scrappers were to recycle all the fluff we deal with then we can live the statement " keeping all these items out of the landfills "
Sure the few batteries found in a dumpster thats real.
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