11/15 is America Recycles Day, really
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And let us not forget 13.0.9.0.11 mlc (the Mayan Long Count)
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~~ Recyclable
America The USA does NOT recycle to any appreciable degree, Some locales and venues collect, facilitate, or permit the collection by some of recyclable materials from those choosing to turn them in. That is not recycling. It is trash and garbage collection. Recycling involves taking the collected recyclable materials and at least re-using or re-purposing them, though it is more broadly accepted as processing those materials int raw materials or feedstock for the manufacture of other useful materials and goods. We do astonishingly little of that.
In 2018, we actually, arguably, recycled 69.1 million tons of the 292.4 million tons of "municipal solid waste" we generated, less than 25%. However, the denominator, municipal solid waste, doesn't include a lot of thing. Building, construction and demolition waste and debris, industrial waste incinerated on site. Toxic waste and hazmat of all kinds, liquids of all kinds, the enormous amount of trash and litter scattered along roads and in empty areas, all the crap dumped in streams and rivers, sludge from municipal sewerage treatment, and much more. The numbers are from the EPA, and it isn't perfectly clear that "recycled" means recycled versus merely collected and segregated, but I will assume that it does.
Want to see just how real our recycling is? Play "Where's Waldo". How many made in US products are 100% made from recycled materials? How many can you name just sitting there. How about 50%? How would you find out?
On this day in history:
1532 – Hernando de Soto and some conquistadors met Atahualpa and and arranged for a formal meeting the next day, where they ambushed and captured him
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cuzco,
1777 – The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation.
1864 – William Tecumseh Sherman began Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889 – Brazil was declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca following a coup
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1922 – At least 300 were massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador
1926 – The NBC radio network opened with 24 stations.
1933 – Thailand held its first election.
1943 – Heinrich Himmler ordered that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1955 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro opened.
1966 – Gemini 12 completed the program's final mission
1967 – Michael J. Adams lost control of his X-15 which broke up mid-air
1969 – The Soviet sub K-19 collided with the US sub Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 – 250,000-500,000 protesters demonstrated in Washington, D.C. against the Vietnam war
1971 – Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois took power in Quebec
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed
1987 – Romanian workers rebelled against the Ceau?escu government
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1988 – The unmanned Soviet Shuttle Buran made its only space flight.
1988 – An independent State of Palestine was declared by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2016 – Hong Kong's High Court banned elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament
Born this day in:
It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
~~ Madeleine de Scudéry
1511 – Johannes Secundus, poet and author
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, author
1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, colonist and author
1738 – William Herschel, astronomer and composer
1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, surgeon, botanist, and academic
1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, journalist and author
1849 – Mary E. Byrd, astronomer and educator
1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, novelist, poet, and playwright
1868 – Emil Racovi?a, biologist, zoologist, and explorer
1873 – Sara Josephine Baker, physician and academic
1874 – August Krogh, zoologist and physiologist,
1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, journalist and author
1886 – René Guénon, philosopher and author
1887 – Marianne Moore, poet, critic, and translator
1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, painter and educator
1888 – Artie Matthews, pianist and composer
1890 – Richmal Crompton, author and educator
1905 – Mantovani, conductor and composer
1908 – Carlo Abarth, engineer and businessman who founded Abarth
1916 – Nita Barrow, nurse and politician
1928 – C. W. McCall, singer, songwriter, and politician
1928 – Seldon Powell, saxophonist and flute player
1929 – Joe Hinton, singer
1930 – J. G. Ballard, novelist, short story writer, and essayist
1932 – Petula Clark, singer, songwriter, and actress
1932 – Clyde McPhatter, singer
1934 – Peter Dickinson, pianist and composer
1936 – Wolf Biermann, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1937 – Little Willie John, singer and songwriter
1940 – Hank Wangford, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and physician
1941 – Rick Kemp, singer, songwriter, bass player, and producer
1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, singer
1953 – Alexander O'Neal, singer, songwriter, and arranger
1954 – Randy Thomas, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1954 – Tony Thompson, drummer
1955 – Joe Leeway, singer, songwriter, and percussionist
1956 – Michael Hampton, guitarist and producer
1957 – Kevin Eubanks, Auitarist and composer
1967 – Cynthia Breazeal, computer scientist, roboticist, and academic
1968 – Jennifer Charles, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1970 – Jack Ingram, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1974 – Chad Kroeger, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1980 – Ace Young, singer, songwriter, and actor
1986 – Jerry Roush, singer and songwriter
1989 – Jonalyn Viray, singer
1992 – Minami Minegishi, singer
Died this day in:
“Just as reflection disappears to the extent that thought and action take the form of automatic habits, it awakes only when accepted habits become disorganized.”
~~ Émile Durkheim
165 BCE – Mattathias, resistance leader
1280 – Albertus Magnus, bishop, theologian, and philosopher
1630 – Johannes Kepler, astronomer and mathematician
1670 – John Amos Comenius, bishop, philosopher, and educator
1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, painter
1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer (
1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, journalist and author
1917 – Émile Durkheim, sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher
1919 – Alfred Werner, chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1945 – Frank Chapman, ornithologist and photographer
1951 – Frank Weston Benson, painter and educator
1956 – Emma Richter, paleontologist
1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, physicist and meteorologist
1961 – Johanna Westerdijk, pathologist and academic
1976 – Jean Gabin, actor, singer, and producer
1978 – Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author
1983 – John Grimaldi, keyboard player and songwriter
1985 – Méret Oppenheim, painter, photographer, and poet
1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, author
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, activist
2003 – Speedy West,guitarist and producer
2008 – Grace Hartigan, painter
2012 – Frode Thingnæs, trombonist, composer, and conductor
2016 – Mose Allison, pianist and songwriter
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
America Recycles Day (United States)
Day of the Imprisoned Writer (International observance)
Little Red Wagon Day
National Bundt Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies 
Seldon Powell
Joe Hinton
Petula Clark
Clyde McPhatter
Little Willie John
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Kevin Eubanks
John Garibaldi
Speedy West
Frode Thingnæs
Mose Allison
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How interesting!
The Nazis tolerated Gypsies for that long...from what one hears of European attitudes toward Gypsies even today, you'd think they'd have been targeted before Jews.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Interesting take of the gypsies
Truth be known, I am a gypsy, at least in spirit.
When we made landfall in Portugal I met a great gal
at an outdoor concert who was a refugee from Germany.
We got to talking (in Spanish) and I asked her if she was a
gypsy. Sheepishly, she admitted she was. Just had a feeling.
She was embarrassed to admit it, but I thought hey, that's cool!
Guess they are not so well embraced in the German republic.
question everything
Good morning Moonbat. Gypsies, like homo-sexuals,
were perceived as undesirables and low-lives, but Jews were traitors who had brought down Germany and embodied many other flaws and failings as a matter of indisputable ideology.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
A VERY important lesson
EVEN TO NAZIS, some things mattered even more than ethnicity - of course, one could argue that by saying it was the particulars of the racism, but even THAT casts stark light on all that's going wrong now, because any talk of racism now makes no mention of WHY Group-XYZ is hated.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Good morning...
Composting is about as easy a recycling project as you can ask for. We used to make a lot of recycled paper mainly for art projects, but have let that habit go. May be we'll get back to that next spring. I hope they take our paper to the local manufacturer/mill to be reused. A few years back the county was caught just dumping glass in the landfill. Who knows what happens to the plastics?
We've fouled our own nest and will live with the results till the end of our time. Here's a bucket worth of good news...(8 min)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLcnJEMnlTs]
The nonprofit global cleaning crew called The Ocean Cleanup, led by founder and CEO Boyan Slat, announced recently that it had reached viability of its ocean plastic-collecting System 002 technology and plans to begin cleaning plastic pollution in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch immediately while beginning development of System 003.
The Ocean Cleanup https://theoceancleanup.com
Have a good day everyone!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
A good effort to save the seas
Coldplay adopts Interceptor 005 .. cool!
https://twitter.com/TheOceanCleanup/status/1375100761709895680?ref_src=t...
[video:https://youtu.be/d020hcWA_Wg]
question everything
Good morning LO. Thanks for the info and video.
I was aware of that project, though probably not phase 2. Seems like a win-wn, though end users of plastic feedstock may have to put some effort into adapting to slightly different feedstocks.
I have a lot of stuff made from recycled plastic made by these people: https://chicobag.com/ and have become pretty conscious of it out there in the world.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
This little town only has a transfer station
No town dump, the trash gets hauled away. People here are good about sorting the recyclables -
glass/plastic, metal and paper. The challenge for me is to leave the transfer station with less than
I brought in. People throw out so much good stuff. Just this past couple weeks, I found a decent vacuum cleaner (better than ours), just had to rewire a switch. Also a kerosene heater, good condition, replaced the wick for $8, and an oil filled electric heater - also in good shape, just rewired the thermostat and works fine for the mudroom.
Thanks for the Pet Clark. That was the first 45 I ever bought. Kid on a farm dreaming of excitement in the the big city ..
question everything
Good morning QMS. I remember well the dangers inherent in
"trips to the dump". No scavenging any more, no around here at any rate.
Glad you enjoyed P.C. She had an interesting life and career.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning, el and et al...
Our county had 4 public garbage dumps with recycle repositories for glass, paper, and aluminum cans.
Well, it was too expensive. Now, you can drop your beer cans in a small garbage can. And that is it for our grand eco-experiment.
I had to hire a private concern to dispose of my office building materials after fire destroyed it. I spent thousands having it hauled off. The contract required me to pay a penalty for every day after expiration of the one month term. The company made sure they were several days late.
Good times!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. That is what passes for progress in
this country, profit maximization and cost minimization regardless of any and all competing concerns. Sorry that you had to suffer such a direct hit.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Hi all,
Hi EL! How ya doin'? Hope everyone is well!
I have been seeing recent pieces on the astronomical amounts of 'recycled' waste that is just sent overseas. Being dumped elsewhere is not recycling. A huge portion of it seems to be greenwashing to make the consumers feel like they are the problem and have the solution. Instead of it being, oh I dunno, the MIC.
Frank Chapman was super mega big. My first Christmas Bird Counts were as a teen in the late 1960's. He started a revolution. Seein' any birds?
Yesterday our first of fall Brewer's Blackbird showed up, they are just a winter bird here. Mostly around corrals and livestock. Still a few butterflies flying, but fading fast. Dragons are over for the year for the most part. Winter is setting in but it hasn't gotten cold, no freeze yet.
Hope it is all good for all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
Good morning Dysto. We now have a resident House Wren,
which seems to be perfectly ok with our resident Bewick's Wren. Never see them together, but often enough on the same day. Same goes for our Ca Towhee and Spotted Towhee. Got a brief glimpse of a seemingly completely yellow head in the Apricot foliage yesterday. It hasn't dropped too many leaves yet, so that's all I could see. Yellow, maybe immie/female Wilson's, probably not a hermit, but slightly possible given my brief view. None of them are regulars in our yard, normally we pretty much only get butterbutts and Townsend's.
Beautiful pale morph redtail visits our zenith several times per week, generally accompanied by everybody's favorite corvids ;-).
I wonder how much we're shipping out and to whom now that China stopped taking out waste.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Put it in the right container!
Good morning and important topic. Living in the condo, we have containers for ‘glass only” and container for plastic and cardboard. We have several people here who don’t care or do not get the message and you find all kinds of recyclables in the “glass only” containers. Large cardboard was to be broken down and bundled and left beside the containers. This is not being done either. Next, I am sure they will decide to remove the containers and let us deal with it on an individual basis.
That is what happened to recycling in the small town I have my place in Texas. It had been a job for some of the other abled in town but people dumping junk etc. brought an end to the worthwhile project. When I go to Austin, I have a load of recycling to take in as well.
On the subject of gypsies, my father always introduced Divine order and myself as his gypsy children so I guess there is a bit of gypsy in my blood because staying settled has not yet happpened!
Would have to do a little bit of research but had my book group read Adam Minter’s book Secondhand, Travels in the Global Garage sale. The subject to the US waste being sent overseas was covered in depth. Part of his story was the creative uses and ways the disposal was being done. Of course, there were the very negative consequences of some of the methods being used. Doing my part to lessen my buying of certain items, recycling and composting as much as possible.
Have a good day to all. Blustery winds today so good reasons to stay inside and clean house!
Life is what you make it, so make it something worthwhile.
This ain't no dress rehearsal!
Good morning jb. Too many folks simply can't be bothered.
That statement is far, far too true of too many things in so many ways. Does it take an extra minute to seek out and find the appropriate recycle receptacle for the bottled water one drank walking thru the mall? Yeah, at least that, so in the trash it goes. It is possibly the motto of post war USA. (That's post WWII, from scrupulous saving and recycling to profligate waste within less than a decade.)
Gypsies perhaps, certainly well traveled.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Great topic el. I have a little thread in my brain, just
parked, thinking about plastic and recycling. Haven't been very encouraged lately.
That Ocean Cleanup is super. And the end product is too. Reusing plastic seems the best way to deal with our mountains of garbage waste.
We are not solving much in the packaging area, even though it was not even available until a few decades ago. We have moved fast to cover the planet with bits of plastic.
Thanks for the OT.
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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Good morning DM. Packaging has long been a
pet peeve of mine. Huge amounts of waste in products intended to be used once and disposed of. It's crazy when one stops to think about it.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --