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CFL Light Bulbs!

If half a million people recycled five plastic containers, enough energy would be saved to power a CFL light bulb for 6,849 years. That is a long time.
As Energy star says CFLs meet there "strict energy efficiency guidelines set by the US Environmental Protection Agency". ENERGY STAR deliver exceptional features, while using less energy. Saving energy helps you save money and protect the environment as well as reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the fight against climate change.

How CFLs are good

They can help save more than $4o in one bulbs life time.

Uses about 75% less energy

Last up to 10 times longer

Makes about 75% less heat, which is safer to operate

CapriSun!!!!!

Fore About a year now i have been saving all the empty Capri Suns pouch that i can! I plane to make bags to be used as gift bags for Christmas and Birthdays. The one i have in the picture i use as a purse. Its kinda cute and people are all ways saying how much they like it and how they want one. I got the idea at a craft show. The best part is the pouches are kept out of the landfills.

Capri Sun also has a option on how to recycle Capri Sun pouches, The solo gin is "Turn Used Drink Pouches into Money for your School.
Step 1) Establish a Drink Pouch Brigade at your school. Sign up at www.caprisun.com/treeacycle
Step 2) Earn $.02 per donated pouch. That equals $.20 inside each box for a school.

Chane Afect!

Not recycling is a chain affect on the earth. We throw out garbage and among the bags is many things that can be recycle, but we still send or bring them to the dump. Most of the time trash is brought to the landfills. Land fills are bad in many ways. When it rains the water goes down throw the soil and into the water table of the earth. the problem is this soil the water is going throw is landfills. The water that is in the water table is suppose to be clean, but after going throw land fills is polluted. Other times our trash gets burned. The problem with burning our trash is toxins are released into the air.

The problem with humans is we don't fix our problems till its to late!

Not Just one thing will save the world!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edkohler/

After researching for a will i relies very quickly that recycling will not save the planet let alone save us. Recycling can be bad for the environment in the fact that sometimes it takes more resources to recycle somethings than it does to make new. Also there is way many other ways humans are killing the planet. Recycling alone will not save or stop the Greenhouse Effect, the ozone layer diminishing, Hazardous waste, populations of water, the energy as well as many many more things.

What will help and save the world is REUSING, REDUCING along with RECYCLING

The Belgrade Transfer Station!!

Today I went to the Belgrade Transfer Station and meet with Bill Miller a family friend who works there. The first thing that I wanted to know was what is the difference between a dump and a transfer station. Bill explained to me that a dump is a place were people just take the trash and put it on the grown and then its barred. A transfer station is were people take trash were is sorted into various ways. From there the trash is taken to a secure land fills that are regulated by the state. Also the transfer station has a recycle center.

The recycling center at the transfer station is a place were people can recycle: All plastics, tin and Aluminum as well as Mixed paper, Magazines, News Paper, Corrugated Cardboard and Used oil. All the things recycled there are sold by the transfer station/Town. The news paper gets made into things like tissue paper, toilet paper as well as many other things. The Cardboard gets made in to news paper. The best part is these things are not being put into the land fills.

The thing I thought was most interesting today was how the transfer station is heated. The station uses the used oil that people bring in to heat the buildings. It cost them nearly nothing and the used oil is not being thrown out or going to waist.

One of the other things that I really liked was the Too good to throw away Building. People can put stuff in the building that they don't want any more but is still in good condition.

Today I learned that the transfer station has alto of good opportunities for people to recycle but, there is still alto of waist. Bill told me that around have of the trash taken to the land fills could be recycled at the recycle station but people don't take the time to recycle it. I also asked him how could we get more people to recycle. He told me that the only way he can see more people recycling is if there was a law for it.

I personally think that people just don't want to take the time to recycle and some people may recycle more if they were more informed and new how.

Change in times!

After reading the United States Recycling Statistics i have leaned that the first recycling center opened in 1896. The USRS tell how recycling has much improved since the first center was opened. But even though recycling may have improved since then, the population has grown very much since 1896.

The book im reading

I have started to read my book By Lester R. Brown called A Planet Under Stress. I am starting to see that the problem with earth is the fact that its over populated with humans, and we are using up way to much resorese and not giving anything back for what we take. We cut down trees to fast for new ones to take there places. We take fish forme the ocean, faster than they can reproduce. Nater cant absorb the amount of carbon be we reseal. With the climate change is animals and plants cant survive as Brown says in his book “Launching the first mass extinction since the one that eradicated the dinosaurs 65 million years ago”.