Dumpster Dipping (for a small planet or just for fun)

Step 9 Offsetting Your Carbon Footprint by recycling instead of landfilling.

Material and pounds of CO2 emission prevented by recycling each pound of material*
Aluminum : 15.0 (pounds of CO2 / pound of material)
Steel Cans: 2.0
Copper : 5.5
Mixed Metals: 5.8
Glass: 0.4
PETE Plastic: 1.7
Corrugated Box Cardboard: 3.2
Magazines: 2.8
Newspaper: 1.9
Office Paper: 4.1
Mixed Paper Board: 3.7
Mixed Residential Paper: 3.6
Mixed Office Paper: 3.7
Information distilled from US EPA's website and their WARM spreadsheet EPA's solid waste models

• Compared to burying it in a landfill that captures its methane and burns it in a green power generator to displace other powerplants. If your landfill ain't that green, your recycling is even more beneficial.

Comments

[stonewar]

Who the hell is throwing away money!!!

[Woodenbikes]

My daughter has a very nice foreign coin collection from the reject bin at the local coinstar machine. We have found freshly laundered clothing with a load of pocket change. Also, the old "dump the entire desk drawer in the trash" technique gives you a bag of office supplies and spare change.

[hitachi8]

once i found 200$ in a pair of jean .

[Ghost Wolf]

doubt it mirror your money 200$ and you get $002 hhhmmmmm

[hitachi8]

don't care .
no one cares about your opinion anyway .
you are on the internet DUDE >!

[Ghost Wolf]

hm good point never thought of it like that

[lynks]

I once found a pc that didn't work because someone stuffed about ten dollars in change into it

[djr6789]

LOL that is so kl so you got a pc and some money!