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Title: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: mg1942 on August 04, 2008, 06:07:40 PM
amirite?
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: Pei on August 04, 2008, 06:10:16 PM
Well you are recycling Brett Favre.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: Slamfire on August 04, 2008, 06:12:36 PM
amirite?

I honestly believe so.  I've noticed that in the last year I've been a lot more careful not to waste _anything_.  My electric bill has actually dropped about 50% from 2 years ago - just by setting the AC a little higher, keeping the heater off in winter, and turning off lights whenever I leave a room.  I also eat leftover more often, and have been saving more money in general.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: Mustaine on August 04, 2008, 06:17:31 PM
Well you are recycling Brett Favre.

Lifelong Packer fan and Brett fan...


and that is DAMN funny !!! :rofl  :cry :lol :aok :rofl
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: sluggish on August 04, 2008, 06:21:40 PM
Well if you're talking about fuel I'd say no.  I still see a lake full of boats aimlessly running around in circles all day and I still see SUVs barreling down the road with one woman in the drivers seat peering out from between the steering wheel and the dash.  $4 a gallon apparently isn't enough to really curb anyone's habits just yet - although everyone sure does like to beoch about it...
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: crockett on August 04, 2008, 06:33:26 PM
Am I Right? (sorry I had to make English out of this)

Well I would disagree..

Here at my building in Daytona there are little trash bins from back in the 50's. They are actually in the ground with little metal lids that popped up when you stepped on a lever. Inside them is about a 25 gallon trash can one for each apartment. So back then it seems the average amount of trash produced by a single home apparently fit in one of these 25 gal trash bins.

Now this same building requires a full size trash dumpster that has to be emptied twice a week.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: Meatwad on August 04, 2008, 07:36:58 PM
Around here, some are less wasteful while others just dont care. They will waste anything just because they can.

Then wonder why they have problems
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 04, 2008, 07:47:07 PM
A few weeks ago my brother in law got $90 for bringing in all his aluminum cans himself (Seems the price of aluminum is up)

A weeklater I heard a report on the radio that towns are upset because people are going around "stealing" aluminum cans out of the garbage (betcha someone is loosing money or they wouldnt complain about someone "stealing" garbage)

Since then. and bewcause Im in a partial war withthe company that claims to collect garbage in my town (Some weeks I see evidence of this. some weeks I dont)

I went out and bought one of these

(http://www.idealgadget.com/wp-content/images/200605292207.jpg)

Have dedicated one of my large trashcans (that the garbage men near destroyed) to aluminum cans
And am now following in my brother in laws footsteps.

Didnt realise how fast those buggers add up in the summertime.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: 007Rusty on August 04, 2008, 07:51:06 PM
We get 5 cents a can here in MA. --- no need to crush em.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: Mustaine on August 04, 2008, 07:55:59 PM
We get 5 cents a can here in MA. --- no need to crush em.

you also pay a 5¢ depost per can on the purchase, government trying to force recycling.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: 007Rusty on August 04, 2008, 07:57:14 PM
   lol yup but i dont have to crush em  :salute


you also pay a 5¢ depost per can on the purchase, government trying to force recycling.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: sluggish on August 04, 2008, 07:57:52 PM
you also pay a 5¢ depost per can on the purchase, government trying to force recycling.

Trudat.  It's a dime here in Michigan.  Ever heard of the "Kramer Law?"
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: DREDIOCK on August 04, 2008, 08:04:31 PM
We get 5 cents a can here in MA. --- no need to crush em.

No need to crush em here either.
but you can fit..::wait lemme check::
6 crushed cans in the same space as it takes to hold 1.

We also dont have a deposit on cans and bottles.
you cant just bring em to the store.

Here you bring them in for scrap and they weigh it and buy it by the pound (Easier then counting)
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: FrodeMk3 on August 04, 2008, 11:00:49 PM
No need to crush em here either.
but you can fit..::wait lemme check::
6 crushed cans in the same space as it takes to hold 1.

We also dont have a deposit on cans and bottles.
you cant just bring em to the store.

Here you bring them in for scrap and they weigh it and buy it by the pound (Easier then counting)

Yeah, but watch their scales-I've seen as much as a -5 (they always weigh light around here) pound difference in their scales and mine.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: CAP1 on August 05, 2008, 12:21:32 AM
Well if you're talking about fuel I'd say no.  I still see a lake full of boats aimlessly running around in circles all day and I still see SUVs barreling down the road with one woman in the drivers seat peering out from between the steering wheel and the dash.  $4 a gallon apparently isn't enough to really curb anyone's habits just yet - although everyone sure does like to beoch about it...

well, the suv drivers are trying really hard to keep em. they accelerate agonizingly slow now. it sucks. if they can't afford to drive them normally, then they should sell em.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: Chalenge on August 05, 2008, 12:27:10 AM
Talking about recycling they are now talking about banning plastic. My nephews buried about $5 in change in a plastic coke jug last summer at my place in Ft Myers. I moved from their and they asked me to retrieve their treasure before I left (cute huh?). Okay so I finally figure out where it is with a metal detector and dig it up. Plastic is supposed to be forever right?

No plastic bottle only coins and the lid with a little of the bottle inside the cap.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: AKIron on August 05, 2008, 12:34:18 AM
Waste is relative. Al Gore uses a helluva lot more resources than I do. Is that waste?
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: Chalenge on August 05, 2008, 12:36:17 AM
Al Gore is the definition of waste.
Title: Re: Americans are less wasteful these days...
Post by: Ripsnort on August 05, 2008, 07:44:41 AM
amirite?
I think you are right.  Recycling in most urban or outlying urban areas (where the larger population centers are) is mandatory I believe.
Hell, we Amurricans even cost energy waste down by not typing out full sentences on the internet...amirite?