This is so awful!

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He used a fancy raw cow's milk blue cheese from Tasmania; and Serra de Estrela, a sheep's milk cheese from Portugal, as the bait too. Of course, the cheese disappeared ...but...
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Hee, hee! Man, those mice have gourmet taste in your neck of the woods! What, is Remy up there or something??? You'd better watch out, pretty soon, they're going to be asking for a little Syrah to go with it . . . .

Perle
 
Perle said:
Hee, hee! Man, those mice have gourmet taste in your neck of the woods! What, is Remy up there or something??? You'd better watch out, pretty soon, they're going to be asking for a little Syrah to go with it . . . .
Perle
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Hi Perle,

Unfortunately, it was my husband who needed the booze. Just picture a guy who's lost all control of civilized language. He even made some words up. Reminded me a bit of Yo Samity Sam after the rabbit gets the better of him.

Slraep
 
In the Philippines, we still have bottled cokes and pepsiss. The soda companies have a bottling facility and the bottles are cleaned and re-used. However, the 1.5L PET bottles are starting to be much saleable because it's cheaper.

The supermarkets are starting to sell shopping bags made of canvas to avoid plastic. We do not have paperbags here in grocery stores. It's either you pay USD2.5 per canvas bag or they us plasticv bags.

Poverty here makes the people collect the bottles, plastics, and PET bottles in th dump and sells them per kilo so these things get's recycled.

But it still doesn't look clean around here, at least not Manila.

There is a treaty on the works between the Philippines and Japan. Japan will give more jobs to the Filipinos and do more investments and aid. In return, the Philippines should give a spot in it's territory to be Japan garbage dump. Yikes! :eek:
 
It's everywhere!! Here in Puget Sound we have a huge number of lost and abandoned gill nets that continue catching and killing bottom fish, crabs and anything else that gets into them--If I remember right there is about one for every five acres, though it could be more. It's a wonder we have any crab or lincod left!!! A few years ago the Puget Sound Gillnetters signed an agreement to search for and retrieve lost nets. Over the next year, only one of them went out--once. It's so sad.

J. Marcus
http://www.flyrodjewelry.com.html
 
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Over the next year, only one of them went out--once. It's so sad.
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Sadly for nearly all sectors of commercial fishing it is cheaper to pay the fines associated with unethical behaviour then it is to "do the right thing".
 
... which really doesn't apply just to environmental fine in the fishing industry at all... I hate to think how those bits of regulation (fine levels) were negotiated in the first place. Phew!
 
I just read back over this thread--I skipped over a lot of it earlier. The screwy thing about this is that all that garbage is very valuable and has become much more so since crude oil went sky high. I have known of about three or four companies that were involved in technologies to convert anything organic (carbon based) into oil or similar hydrocarbon fuels. One of them, Changing World Technologies, has a plant currently operating in Missouri that recycles and converts all the waste from some turkey slaughtering operations into oil. Their venture became profitable when oil hit somewhere between $35.00 to $40.00 per barrel. I'm sure they're smiling now. Their process can utilize almost everything in the trash stream except metals and glass. However, the other day I came across "The Energy Blog" and found that there are more companies working on different approaches to this than I could have possibly imagined. Some of the others are up and running as well. To see what's happening in this area look up:

http://thefraserdomain.typepad.com/energy/biofuels/index.html

There are pages of information here. After reading through this part, then go back and look under the categories: Biodiesel, Biogas, and Bio-oil. It'll boogle the mind! . . . and all that trash is just going to waste!! Hopefully this will catch up with the problem before things go much farther. Now--go lobby your local municipality, county, state or other governmental body to work with your garbage collection/disposal companies to bring one of these facilities to your area and recycle all that nasty stuff!--at a profit!--beyond what they're already receiving for their services!!!! This sort of thing would seem to be especially attractive to third world, impoverished areas because it proposes to solve a problem while resulting in a net gain in revenue.

Hmmm. . . For many years now I've had the thought that someday we would be mining our old garbage dumps. . .

J. Marcus
http://flyrodjewelry.com/home.html
 
Slraep: Please be careful--deer mice are known to sometimes harbor the very deadly Hanta virus. Also, wild animals that don't flee from you sometimes do this because they are sick. Rabies comes to mind. . .

J. Marcus
 
I look forward to the day where people are actively cleaning up the environment looking for anything that can be converted to fuel. I'm trying hard to cut down on plastic use, but everything is wrapped in the darn thing these days. The other thing is, unless it's hugely profitable, businesses don't care and by the time it gets profitable the damage may be irreparable. It's not hard to separate metal and glass from my own trash, but noone bloody collects it. We used to have recycling bins at work, but they scrapped it because everyone was throwing anything and everything into the wrong bins.
 
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recycle

I try my best to be as green as possible. We have recycle bin in the neighborhood for plastics only. For some reasons, they discontinued collecting glass bottles. I don't use plastic water bottles anymore except when the family goes on long hiking trip. I have a water bladder backpack that I also use. For exercising, I buy a reusable aluminum bottle made by Sigg and just fill my bottle with water.
 
Happily the UK is rabies free, and, thanks to European legislation, plastics, paper, cardboard, glass, newsprint are re-cycled and most vegetative materials are composted or chipped for mulch by the local council, if you do not do it yourself
at my supermarket we get loyalty rewards for not using plastic carriers but bringing our own.
I think Europe is far ahead on generation of energy by clean methods - wind - tide - water - and I picked up research on using the power of pedestrian footfall to generate.
 
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recycle

When I visited San Francisco last year and went to the farmer's market by the pier, I was very impress at the amount of people who do not use plastic bags. Most shoppers there brought their own canvas bags to purchase vegetable, etc. If only more people are like that where I live, sigh...
 
I'm still guilty of not using my own bags when I shop. Must make it a habit to bring the canvas bags when I go out, whether or not I'm intending to buy something.
 
My local council provides every household with recycle bins; on my property I have a bin for compostable waste; another bin for plastics; a third bin for paper waste. These are emptied once a week by the council refuse workers.
And just across the road are three bottle banks.
My dustbin now takes 3 weeks to fill, and that rubbish is incinerated by the council and provides power for the borough.
I never use plastic bags when shopping - the supermarket fruit and veg. I just bung loose in the trolley and pack it carefully in one of my shopping bags. If I don't have enough bags, then it goes loose in the trolley and again loose into the car boot.
And where possible I refuse to buy any goods that are pre-packed in plastic.
I'm lucky enough to have a local market and small independant food shops where I can get the fresh fruit and veg. and meat etc. without it being pre-packed.
 
pearlescence said:
Happily the UK is rabies free, and, thanks to European legislation, plastics, paper, cardboard, glass, newsprint are re-cycled and most vegetative materials are composted or chipped for mulch by the local council, if you do not do it yourself
at my supermarket we get loyalty rewards for not using plastic carriers but bringing our own.
I think Europe is far ahead on generation of energy by clean methods - wind - tide - water - and I picked up research on using the power of pedestrian footfall to generate.
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We are using many types of plastic containers but as we have first to pay some extra money and later by giving back these containers at the shops, getting back our extra money, that is allright!

This way no plastic lies around everywhere, hurting animals as well as human beings!
 
and all that trash is just going to waste!!
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I have said in more than one one post, that we should treat plastic as though it is very valuable and only buy it if you can't get the object (ie cd-dvd disks) in any other material.

I hope people will start mining the plastic in the ocean- and help small and struggling countries to recycle all thei glass, metals and plastics.

Arizona is not very enlightened at the moment. It was hauling separated trash away and putting it in the local dump:mad: So then they quit the recycling program!!!
 
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