"Recycling can waste more resources"

[oil pan 4]

For some reason hippie chicks seem to love military guys. Opposites attract or maybe because we work out, take showers and get hair cuts, have a job, maybe a little of everything.

I'm always going to the scrap yard, taking stuff there or looking for stuff to reuse. upcycle or resell.

If something costs more to recycle into a new product than making that new from raw materials that additional money is likely just buying more energy and more water, both of which industry use in abundance.

[Xist]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

For some reason hippie chicks seem to love military guys. Opposites attract or maybe because we work out, take showers and get hair cuts, have a job, maybe a little of everything.

You know, when you have a profile picture of yourself in your dress uniform and only get spammers, you wonder about people saying women love men in uniform.

[freebeard]

I love hippies; just don't care for their stupidity.

How are you on non-hippy stupidity?

They volunteered to perform the experiments that established that communes don't work (at least not in the belly of Babylon). The Farm in Tennessee being the exception that proves the rule.

Now 40 years later, everyone has forgotten and misguided youth are rioting in the streets because communism.

...it's pointless to recycle items that are cheaper to just make new. If it costs more to recycle something than make it from scratch, then it takes more energy. Consuming more energy is not environmentally friendly.

It's energy vs materials in an environment of subsidies and regulation. Paper should be made from hemp.

Military men do love them some hippy chicks.

[jamesqf]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

If it costs more to recycle something than make it from scratch, then it takes more energy.

You have to look at both sides, though. The cost of making something new, plus the cost of disposing of the old thing that would otherwise be recycled. It does seem that quite a few things can be recycled profitably - enough so that the local trash/recycling company often knocks a few bucks off annual bills because it's required to return a portion of recycling profits to the customers.

[Xist]

He tells us to stay tuned to see what they do with recycled glass as if that is the plot twist that is supposed to make everything worthwhile.

In this case recycled glass becomes blow-in insulation.

I have seen recycling centers with separate glass containers, but this doesn't get sorted until after the glass is rushed and a computer identifies each color and blows them into a different container.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR9FtWVjk2c

In the end you see a HMMWV, which he calls "An electric Hummer."

No, Hummers are the silly civilian version. I never heard a servicemember call an M998 "A Hummer."

I am kind of paying attention to a video about him electrifying his HMMWV and every single time he says "Military HMMWV."

Once again, just HMMWV.

Well, Mom hasn't yelled at me in a while. Time to see if she requires medical attention!

[freebeard]

In this case recycled glass becomes blow-in insulation.

Thanx. You saved me 12:42. Here --this is 2:15

Yellowstone Supervolcano Simulation

[redpoint5]

Entropy cannot be subverted. Creating order necessarily involves a process that creates more disorder. You want to take a functional bottle, move it, crush it, sort it, and form it into something else useful you must pay the entropy price.

[Xist]

He kept saying that recycling glass used 40% les energy than processing new materials.

Someone elsewhere insisted that you don't process quartz, you shovel it from the beach, despite me sharing a source stating that most quartz was mined.

[oil pan 4]

Best way to recycle glass, porcelain, ceramics is bust it up and put it in concrete.

[freebeard]

Best use of busted up porcelain was by Antoni Gaudi. Here's Park Guell: