Archive for December, 2009

Recycled Products

Recycled products are items manufactured from materials that have been used before. The pre-consumer material gets to the recycling facility either in the form of scrap or waste or as unsold items that can be reconditioned. Products receive a new life and a different purpose thanks to these new technologies. The advantages of using recycled products are manifold.

recycled paper products

Water, oil, electricity, trees and other resources are saved thanks to the use of the recycled products. The natural beauty in the environment can thus be saved from destruction with every effort we make to reuse or recycle. Moreover, pollution decreases, and here we have the biggest advantage of all.

The truth is that most of the items available on the market are not recycled, because the consume is a lot higher than the recycling capacity available at present. Using recycled products comes with a certain level of consumer awareness and education. This explains why recycled products make the essence of every promotional campaign.

recycled wood products

The average user can invest in recycled products such as paper, because it is cheaper and within reach. Considerable savings are thus possible not only with trees and water but with electricity as well. Statistics indicate that between 7 and 24 trees are saved for every ton of recycled paper. You can read about more savings in the special reports available online.

People earn their living worldwide by working in recycled products manufacturing facilities. The recycling effort is complete if the recycled products get in us. Estimates are very somber for the future of the natural resources if the recycling market does not receive firm and strong support.

recycled products

Therefore, it is not enough to recycle the waste, but also to buy the new recycled products in order to close the loop. Otherwise, only half the job is done. Let's show the same interest for the finite recycled product as we show for the recycling process. Reused material can often provide the same quality standards if it is recycled well. Therefore, let's double our efforts and support the complete recycling process!

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Recycle My Oil

As of 2009 the United Sates produces over a 100000000 gallons a year of waste vegetable oil. Filtered Waste Vegetable Oil (WVO) can be used straight in diesel vehicles with conversion kits, or can be refined into bio-diesel – also usable in vehicles. Bio-diesel refining involves some toxic substances – methanol for example – and reduces the cost differential between conventional and recycled fuel. Nerveless there is still a use for the waste product as an alternative to gasoline consumption. One wvo recycling company in Colorado EPR inc. has an oil gathering service that will collect restaurant or food service WVO on a regular basis for free. Many companys make arrangements with restaurants/food service to collect and re-use WVO (with or without further refinement) in their converted cars. I would seen that many greenhouse gases are produced every year from the burning of diesel fuel in trucks. The recent fuel prices are cause for inventive ways to act responsible environmentally speaking and one way, is to use waste vegetable oil as a renewable supply of fuel for vehicles. There are so many benefits of using this well to replace fossil fuels and some of these include abridged air pollution, reduced greenhouse gas emissions, and conservation of limited fossil fuels. There are two different ways that you can use vegetable oil as a fuel in engines. The first way is that you can use straight vegetable oil either waste frying oil or fresh- pressed oil, however you will need an extra fuel tank and a system for heating and filtering the oil before it reaches the engine. The reason why you will need this is because pure vegetable oil is too thick to work in the engine unless the oil is heated up. If your goal is to go modification free on your diesel your best bet is to use not just WVO but Bio-Diesel. Bio-diesel is a fuel source that can be made from waste vegetable oil when a chemical reaction is induced between methanol and lye. You can create it from waste vegetable oil that can be collected from most restaurants, or you can use fresh pressed oil but that can be costly. World wide this is being produced today to be sold on the commercial market, due to the fact that anyone can get the right equipment it can even be made in your home. Some of the toxic air pollutants that are condensed include soot, particulates, carbon monoxide, and sulphur oxides, however nitrous oxide emissions may increase slightly.

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Are We Running Out of Safe Water?

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Water is a unique and fascinating substance! We are confident that life as we know it cannot exist without the presence of clean water. People are able to live weeks without food but merely days without water. Recent moon explosions were planned for the purpose of, hopefully, detecting the presence of water through analyzing the dust, for moon colonization is virtually impossible without it.

It is certain that earth is not short of water. It contains 326 million trillion gallons of water, meaning we could each have our own 56 billion gallons. The average person in the world has a daily requirement of water for sanitation, bathing, and cooking needs of about 13.2 gallons. That means the world contains enough water to last each of us over 11 million years (not counting population growth)! That doesn’t take into consideration the free recycling system provided for us called evaporation and condensation.

Of course, this is a little misleading for not all (or even most) of this water on earth is in a useable form. Ninety-eight percent of the water on earth is in the oceans, and is, therefore, too salty for use. Of the 2% of the planet's fresh water, 1.6% is unusable in the polar ice caps and glaciers. Another 0.36% is found underground in aquifers and wells. A mere .036% of the earth’s water is found in lakes and rivers. That still provides 392 million gallons for each of us. The sobering fact is that only about 0.007% of all water on earth (and less than 1% of the world’s fresh water) is accessible for direct human use.

The problem is bad also because useable water is not evenly available to the world population. For example, the average American uses more water in one shower than most third world people use in a whole day. Nearly one billion people of the world do not have access to safe water. Nearly one billion people of the world lack access to safe water. Further, two and a half billion do not have improved sanitation, that is, a means to separate drinking water from waste water.

The lack of sanitary drinking water results in major health issues throughout the world. As many as half of all people in hospital beds at any given time are there because of a water related disease. This results in one child dying from a water-related disease, usually from diarrhea, every 15-20 seconds. That totals a staggering 1.4 million children each year. Children in poor environments often carry 1,000 parasitic worms in their bodies at any time. We are told that 88% of cases of diarrhea worldwide are attributable to unsafe water, inadequate sanitation, or insufficient hygiene.

Polluted water brings death, but also an increase in disease, crime, birth defects, and decreased ability to concentrate in school. In other words, it results in major economic decline. An investment in pure water for a people, or in desalination of the sea, is an investment with big returns. It is estimated that on average, every US dollar invested in water and sanitation provides an economic return of eight US dollars.

Some want us to live like they do, not watering our lawns or taking a shower as often. This is fallacious thinking. Lowering our living standard in use of water only borrows their problems. The main reason America has sufficient good, clean water is that we have learned where to get it and how to preserve it. Our response to criticism should not be guilt but better stewardship and an increased willingness to share our knowledge with others. When we are frugal and generous with our water, we will set a higher standard for other nations to follow.

But what if you are on well water or city water that has bad taste or odors. You would be benefited by an activated charcoal water filter. The Berkey Filter are the best line of activated charcoal filter we are aware of. Check out the Berkey Light or another model. One amazing feature is that each set of filters they ship with can be re-cleaned to purify up to 6,000 gallons of drinking water.

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