Tag: recycling
The “Next” Industrial Revolution?
If you missed today, we discussed the “next” industrial revolution. Did you know it was underway? The last industrial revolution gave us the linear material flow economy we diagrammed this week. While recycling programs do reduce some waste disposal and some extraction, they focus on the “downstream” end of that flow. Today, we learned of [...]
Posted: February 4th, 2011 under Mr. W, Scribe Post, Unit 9-Waste Management.
Tags: demographics, economy, recycling, solid waste
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Recycling wrap up
So, today we tried to debate the pros/cons of recycling. If you found it interesting, here are some more resources: 1. Here is a follow up to the 1996 John Tierney article. How have things changed in the last 15 years? Is recycling NOW worth it? 2. If you have 30 minutes: Laugh out loud [...]
Posted: February 3rd, 2011 under Mr. W, On My Mind Post, Unit 9-Waste Management.
Tags: recycling, solid waste
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MSW Presentation plus landfills and MRFs
Here is the slide deck from today’s (2/1/11) lesson: Examining MSWView more presentations from Derrick Willard. And, since we touched on modern sanitary landfills and recycling, here are two great resources: 1. Visit HowStuffWorks.com to see a modern sanitary landfill being built. Gotta know the basic design for the AP Exam. 2. Since we can’t [...]
Posted: February 1st, 2011 under Mr. W, Scribe Post, Unit 9-Waste Management.
Tags: landfills, MSW, recycling, solid waste
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