Recycle Answered

Its great when you find devices, untouched, I love to take them apart and salvage electronic parts from them, like capacitors, resistors, transistors, chips and everything else I can find that still work properly! Unfortunately in my country there aren't junk yards like in America or so that only have some old electronic or engendering equipment. It is a real shock what people can trow out just because it is old or in your situation whit the computers, because of lack of knowledge.

hey, check out what velacreations did at https://www.instructables.com/member/velacreations

because of him I finally found out what to do wid those bottles lying around in our house

we've got tons of it in a pile at the back of our house ( we keep the plastic containers )

We also use it for storing water in our store in a busy road to supply our employees wid water, don't worry they dont mind

and we also use those med sized 5 liter water containers all over again in the
second floor of our house.

That is not a bad thing to use the bottles for....

In my country there aren't many recycling bins, just for the newspapers, but people have started to trough in everything in them, so the government abandoned the project.

in the cities here, we get smaller plastic (o_O) bins to place recyclables in temporarily, until pick up once a week.

Prety much the same here but we finally got big square bins to use.

Still, not much is done to help people recycle... :P

true here in israel we have widely available recycling for PET and HDPE plastics and for paper most glass bottles and metal drink cans are returnable (with small refund). few plastic bottles too but most not some metal factories accept scrap but you need to know manually the people (they are not widely known to the folks) also batteries are collected but i think they are just getting concentrated in a special landfill and not getting recycled fluorescent lamps and gas from old refrigerators are not collected and not recycled what hurts the most is the absolute ignorance from the average folks. they just keep buying a lot and trashing a lot and wasting as much as possible. and yet they think hey are so uber green cause they changed the lightbulb in the garden to 3X higher wattage cfl that illuminates up to the other side of the road most bottles / paper / batteries still end in the trash. in the paper recycle bin more than half is A4 pages printed on less than 1 full side (without even a bent corner. you can successfully feed them to the laser printer). in the battery bins you can find lots of rechargeables after single use and sometimes new alkalines (how ????) i never bought a page of paper or a battery in like 5 years

Oh yah! Israel! I wasn't born there, but one of my parents was :)

About the batteries, on each one, there is a drawing of a trash can and it is crossed, meaning not to trough them in the regular trash bin, but in my country, there is no option. We don't have any other kind of trash cans for batteries, none, so people trough the battery in regular trash. Also cardboard boxes, I live in a flat, and near me is a big supermarket, when I go to school, I pass their storage facility, and see tons and tons of cardboard boxes at the closest trash can to them.... And what happens is that one half ends up in regular trash and gets burned, NOT recycled and the other half gets recycled, but in a strange way... What do I mean by strange..well, there are no people that are payed to collect them and take them to recycling plants, homeless people, mostly gypsies, collect them and take them to recycling plants to earn some money... Whit out them all the cardboard would end up burned.... All these things just make me sick, I try to help the environment...I will be honest, I am not trying my best, but I am trying...And being an inventor, that's the status I would like to have...I feel an obligation to do something.....

thats more or less what happened here up to about 8 years back today most corporate and business places recycle their paper and boxes (instead of reusing or reducing though !). at home the folks still trash everything - they are simply lasy to go 20 meters more to put the bottles in the bangomat whats sad is that some guys steal metal stuff to send it to recycling. about 4 - 5 years back there were waves of traffic signs and electrical poles and cables disappearing overnight all across the country. today workers of the factories inspect what they get and dont accept stuff that looks suspicious

Yea, about the stealing part...People used to steal optical internet cables and we wont have internet for like a week until they fix that...and people started stealing metal caps that were covering the holes that lead to pipes...this happened about an year ago....

Same thing happened in Canada and I'll tell you it's annoying and disgusting as hell. People had power outages for days, and where my family goes on vacation they'd even stolen the plaques on the benches (Like they were paid to be dedicated to someone)

That is true people are to lazy to do stuff.

That's another thing that is unfortunately true...

Ya atleast we know we are not lazy.

*cough* :D

That is one suspicious cough there.

What? Just your average cough. *cough* *cough*

A average cough is just plain yours is just suspicious thats all.

hmm, in what way suspicious? *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough* *cough**cough* *cough*

Your actting really suspicious for all that coughing espeically with the double one_{^{I'm watching you}}

Are you? Or is it in reverse, am I watching you?

*cough* ****COUGH********* Uhhh, that was a big one!

Reverse on you i'm watching you which means your watching me and that means someone is watching both of us.

Is it, or are we watching him?

Hmm are we?

Maybe.

i am abit unsure. they dont seem lazy at all when they are inside the shopmart

Ya that is true I guess shopping is a exception then.

In my city, I think there are like only 2 or 3 cans for recycling plastic, and the city where I live is big, well for my countries standards big... a population of over 500 000....

That is my friend and, you may not see me but I am in one of those cans... Just Kidding... I thought the picture was awsome...so I found a reason to put it up xD

Cool, please send me a PM when you publish you Instructables... Thanks!

recycling reduces waste - not eliminates it. it pollutes as well (energy + sometimes the process itself) totally agree with dont need dont buy

https://www.instructables.com/id/How_to_Make_paper_1/

:D now you CAN subscribe to the newspaper.

My method is better and removes the ink, so the paper is white as snow... :P

A mold that I made from wood, and covered it whit aluminium... It is exactly 6X A4 paper, so i cut in in six pieces to get 6 A4 papers... But you need to know the proses of removing the ink from the paper or it will be very gray....

Ah, you make new paper. Don't they normally use screens for that?

screens? No, I use something else. Let me give you a hint, It is a machine, not a chemical, and It aint really machine, more like a pot that contains the mass and gets altered...Don't know how to tell you this whit out telling you exactly....Well, I hope I will have time to make an Instructables soon... :)

I meant that they usually use screens to make paper, not molds.

Yea, or more likely presses, like two rollers, but in my recycling paper plant I use molds because I don't have $$ for big rollers and presses!

That second picture looks a bit what I used to imagine Wburg looked like.
=]

Wburg?

It's a short way of saying my name