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| Recycling ideas | When it comes to ideas themselves and you cannot think of an idea, then why not recycle someone else's idea, particularly if they have been dead for say 70 years (free of copyright) or were patented say 20 years ago, (and patent is now lapsed). It is using the above idea recycling, that anyone can print the story of Alice in Wonderland or make generic aspirin tablets, (a derivative of acetylsalicylic acid - based on C9H8O4). |
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| The Daily Reckoning Free subscription to a range of ideas |
The world never works the way people think it does. That is not to say that every idea about how the world works is wrong, but that often particular ideas about how it works will prove to be wrong if they are held in common. Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies... & often dangerous ones. But we do not write this e-mail newsletter to carp or complain. Instead, we offer it in the spirit of constructive criticism, or at least in the spirit of benign mischief. Finally, we do not include the typical formulas or recommendations of an investment advisory. Instead, we offer only a few simple ideas that readers may well find helpful in the years ahead. |
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| Resources depletion & recycling |
What is the current state of play regarding resource depletion?
The table below is taken from a study at the University of Augsburg which estimates how long a natural resource will last if we consume at today’s rate. (Jan 2007) Source: New Scientist
To some these figures are quite alarming. The markets have already anticipated the impending scarcity of indium, which is being used for making LCDs for flat-screen TVs. In January 2003 the metal sold for around $60 per kilogram, by August 2006, the price had shot up to over $1,000 per kilogram. The mere instance of indium’s price going up so precipitously will prolong the time span before supplies are exhausted. At sky high prices there is more incentive to extract the metal more efficiently, to search for more supplies and to find alternative cheaper substitutes. The ancient world was worried about running out of zinc and copper and nothing has changed. |
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| Don't get depressed maybe plant a tree! |
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The Bassendean Preservation Group inc like many others are planting trees, lots of them, to do our bit towards a better environment. While not really a recycling project, it does make you feel better. Groups like the Men of the Trees are also planting trees, usually more than half a million every year! |
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| Why recycle? | The benefits of recycling - kerbside pickups There are also great amounts of energy and water that go into producing a range of materials, not to mention the production of greenhouse gases. By saving materials from landfills, there can be massive environmental savings: |
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| Processing input per kg |
mJoules/kg |
Hours of a 100 watt light globe |
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| Recycled aluminium | 15 | 42 hours | ||
| Copper | 100 | 280 hours | ||
| Galv steel | 38 | 100 hours | ||
| Glass | 13 | 36 hours | ||
From the above, recycling about 85 aluminium cans (1kg) there are 155 mJoules of energy savings, That's ... 20 weeks of that 100 watt light globe on every night for 3 hours just from recycling a kilo of empty drink cans. |
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| More info ... including tap repairs! |
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A Unesco report of 2006 on water and our need to share it, worldwide. The world's population is tipped to top out in 2050 at 9.1 billion people, from today's 6.5 billion. In 2030, India is tipped to have more people than China. |
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