https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v en-us 2017-04-10 16:19:24 UTC 2017-04-24 01:59:50 UTC hello@padlet.com emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165717327 http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/ovic/ViewpointsDetailsPage/ViewpointsDetailsWindow?disableHighlighting=false&displayGroupName=Viewpoints&currPage=&scanId=&query=&source=&prodId=OVIC&search_within_results=&p=OVIC&mode=view&catId=&u=j243905&limiter=&display-query=&displayGroups=&contentModules=&action=e&sortBy=&documentId=GALE%7CEJ3010301232&windowstate=normal&activityType=&failOverType=&commentary=

]]> 2017-04-10 16:24:25 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165717327 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165717963 Feeling Not Facts: "Recycling is a good thing." "It makes me feel like a better person." "It makes the environment better." "We get a warm and fuzzy feeling when we recycle."]]> 2017-04-10 16:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165717963 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165719533 "Every community recycling program in America today costs more than the revenue it generates," says Dr. Jay Lehr of the Heartland Institute."]]> 2017-04-10 16:32:43 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165719533 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165719894 Used to have 400 trucks, now have 800. "That means extra wear and tear on city streets, double the exhaust emissions into the atmosphere, double the man-hours required for someone to drive and man those trucks, and double the costs of maintenance and upkeep of the trucks."]]> 2017-04-10 16:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165719894 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165720557 Waste of Time: "The city contains 260,000 households, which means each week Seattleites spend almost 8,500 work days recycling."]]> 2017-04-10 16:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165720557 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165720817 "Clemson professor Daniel K. Benjamin adds that the total land area required to contain every scrap of this country's garbage for the next 100 years would be only 10 miles square. The Nevada Policy Research Institute's numbers are even more dramatic: An area 44 miles square and 120 feet deep would handle all of America's garbage for the next millennium."]]> 2017-04-10 16:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165720817 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165721203 Over the next 300 years, landfills are expected to cause less that 5.7 cancer related deaths compared to 560,000 cancer deaths ]]> 2017-04-10 16:39:10 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165721203 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165721303 "According to Jerry Taylor, we are growing 22 million acres of new forest each year, and we harvest 15 million acres, for a net annual gain of 7 million acres. ]]> 2017-04-10 16:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165721303 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165721306 "The United States has almost four times more forested land today than it did 80 years ago."]]> 2017-04-10 16:39:33 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165721306 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165723922 Sand, the most abundant source on Earth, is what makes glass and people are worried about recycling glass even though it pollutes the earth to recycle it.]]> 2017-04-10 16:49:28 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165723922 emkuhrt19 https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165726326 When the community or city is in crisis or hurting, the first plan is to take out the recycling programs to provide more more for the city management. ]]> 2017-04-10 16:58:53 UTC https://padlet.com/emkuhrt19/7d3vic9opn7v/wish/165726326