What's old is new!

[domeasingold]

Thanks AH! Now if we could identify other renewable resources on this board IMO it could be enlightening for some.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

NP Dome!

This is awesome!!!

Recycling mountain equipment helps local veterans
www.newsfirst5.com/news/recycling-mountain-equipment-helps-local-veterans/

also..

Construction industry looks to improve recycling record
www.guttridge.co.uk/news/2011/01/26/construction-industry-looks-to-improve-recycling-record/

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Hey ND Domer, after you recycled the gold out of the electronics you can use the plastics to do stuff like this!

Recycled plastic ties coming to some U.S. railroads:
news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20030372-54.html

[itstippy]

Some day recycling will be so widespread we'll be mining old landfills for valuable contents. Plastics & metals especially.

Please find a use for old tires!!! The town landfill started charging $10 a tire disposal fee about 15 years ago. People roll the damned things into my woods, the road ditches, the river, the railroad tracks, everywhere. It's terrible. Mosquito-breeding baloney-skin tires all over. They should pay people a $2 per tire bounty to bring them in. At least keep the nasty things all in one place until we figure out something useful to do with them.

Recently they started charging disposal fees for TV sets and air conditioners too. Now those things are showing up in inappropriate places. Make 'em worth money and we won't have that problem any more. You sure don't see beer cans lying around like you used to.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Some day recycling will be so widespread we'll be mining old landfills for valuable contents. Plastics & metals especially.

Your right. There is already the business of buying old storage lockers for treasure.

We used to get these landscaping ties that were made out of recycled tires. I have also heard of using tires that have been ground up in top mix for roads. Thanks for the mission! I'll see what I can find. One out there idea that someone around here pulled off was building there house with old tires. No jokes. They pulled it off and apparently it is very efficient!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is the perfect model for what your talking about itstippy.

www.albertarecycling.ca/RecyclingMain.aspx?id=84

Great list of product at the bottom.

[kman]

Trash into treasure...tires..rubber driveways....this way when I fall at my advanced age , I can avoid a broken hip.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

LOL!!! Now that's what I'm talking about... I don't want to have to drive you around so we need to make things safe for you old guyz...

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This isn't recycling.. However it;s something old that is new again; and good idea..

eBay will pay $200 for old smartphones as Verizon iPhone nears:
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2014166257_ebayphonebuy09.html?syndication=rss

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Re-cycling land...

Plant fully dismantled in Tallevast:
www.bradenton.com/2011/02/09/2942183/plant-fully-dismantled-in-tallevast.html

itstipp, have you given anymore thought to writing the book you were talking about??

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

This is the story on how the Empire State was retrofitted to be a green building. Some very cool stuff.

New York's Tallest Building Is Now One of Its Greenest:
money.aol.com/rtn/press/new-york-s-tallest-building-is-now-one-of-its-greenest/rfid425196738?channel=pf

[domeasingold]

Recycle nuke waste.

[verrip1]

The French have been doing it for years. They reprocess the rods over and over again. Eventually, the non-recyclable residue from a single nuclear power plant's rods would fit in a shoebox, according to Dr. Wm. Wattenberg, nuclear scientist. In the US, rod reprocessing has been prohibited since the Carter presidency. Last year, the Obama administration removed funding for the Yucca Mountain Repository and moved to prevent it from being reconsidered in the future. IOW, the feds not only have blocked recycling of rods, but also their permanent storage. This leaves the US industry with the only option of handling spent rods in large pools essentially forever - just like reactor 4 in Japan. That hasn't worked out particularly well for them, has it?

Meanwhile, one of the biggest issues in Australia is fear that someone will try to impose a nuclear repository in their country.

The absence of US leadership on this issue is staggering. It is with great regret that I see that France is leading the way and the US is far behind, moping around, directionless.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Both parties are morons here too. That is great shit V, I didn't realize that is how they did it there. We need to find a way to push for that now. It the perfect opportunity, unfortunately.

[domeasingold]

Seeing as how Japan has raised awareness again, Isn't time the people spoke out and did something to convince those jerks what the correct order of business should be for nuke power. Is it just me or does rationality take a backseat to blow jobs in Washington. Golly jack, these are people we elected.
I mean we need nuclear energy for power but regulations are so EF'd up we are all staring down a barrel of a gun.

Frank Q - I need your opinion on this.

Thanks, V. For getting me pissed!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Give 'em hell ND!! K4U!!!

[verrip1]

Looks like I'll have to supply you guys with BP meds when I post.

[domeasingold]

Thanks A!
V, what's today? About 11 days since the quake and the disaster? It ain't even the top story on the news anymore. People are forgetting about radiation and nukes. Congress wants to slap Obama for getting them into another war without asking them first.
You think isf we told Gadaffi where to hide he would go there and then hit him with a smart bomb? Jackwagon!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

NP, ND. I hear you. Don't give up. This is an issue that needs to be addressed.

US spent-fuel storage sites are packed:
hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_JAPAN_QUAKE_US_SPENT_FUEL?SITE=RIPRJ&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

[Deleted]

Quoted:
Find permanent home for spent nuclear fuel rods
By the SVN Editorial Board


ShareJapan’s nuclear power plant crisis should light a fire under American politicians to approve a permanent national storage site for spent nuclear fuel.

Last week’s earthquake and tsunami disrupted the Fukushima Dai-ichi complex’s ability to keep spent nuclear fuel rods cool and safe. Overheated fuel rods in drained cooling pools are believed to be emitting dangerous radiation.

If Japan had had foresight to remove and store its spent nuclear fuel rods elsewhere, away from the earthquake and tsunami zone, the nation would have one less problem to deal with today.

Will U.S. leaders have the foresight to learn from Japan’s disaster and approve a permanent storage site?

We hope so.

Permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel has been a nagging problem for a half-century or more.

The nation has 104 nuclear generating stations. Eleven nuclear power reactors are in Illinois, from which the state derives about 50 percent of its electricity.

With no permanent national storage facility for spent nuclear fuel, power plants at nearby Byron, Cordova and elsewhere must store it on site. The process is safe enough, but nuclear plants are running out of storage room. Last year, the Byron Nuclear Generating Station built a storage pad to hold cylindrical concrete casks that contain radioactive spent fuel pellets because the plant’s spent fuel pool ran out of room.

A safer alternative would be to create a deep underground storage facility for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Such a facility, in a dry and remote area of the Mojave Desert, would be a lot better than having spent rods spread out in temporary storage in 39 states.

No earthquakes. No tsunamis. Just safe, stable storage for hundreds or thousands of year.

Unfortunately, politics prevented the Yucca Mountain proposal, which as been studied for decades, from winning final approval.

Perhaps Japan’s disastrous experience with on-site storage of spent nuclear fuel will be enough to get President Barack Obama and Congress to take action.

We call on U.S. Sens. Dick Durbin and Mark Kirk and U.S. Reps. Don Manzullo, Bobby Schilling and Randy Hultgren to work with fellow congressional members to create a permanent storage site for spent nuclear fuel.

Durbin, as the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, is in a key position to persuade Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, to drop his opposition to Yucca Mountain.

It should be noted that if a permanent storage site is created, an Illinois ban on construction of new nuclear plants will expire. That would assist with their eventual replacement.

U.S. leaders are rightly known for putting off difficult decisions. It would be the height of irresponsibility for them to kick this can down the road any longer.


This needs to be dealt with, sooner NOT later

[itstippy]

What's old is new! Those clever Chinese have found a new way to turn scrap metal into hard cash:
www.nytimes.com/2011/04/06/business/global/06coins.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fbusiness%2Findex.jsonp

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Now why would they want this?

Instead, officials say, the band and its accomplices painstakingly restored the coins, then fooled the Bundesbank into redeeming them for paper currency or money transfers into bank accounts.

Nice find.

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Some info on tire recycling.

Tire recycling facility a step closer:
www.saultstar.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3069365

Garb Oil & Power Corporation Will Build the Tire Recycling Plant in Reading, Pennsylvania:
www.sacbee.com/2011/04/14/3552617/garb-oil-power-corporation-will.html

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Taking care of tires.


Tires to be moved to Quebec:
www.thecharter.ca/Latest-news/2011-05-03/article-2473691/Tires-to-be-moved-to-Quebec/1

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Some nuk fuel storage news came across my desk.

Japan, U.S. plan nuclear waste storage in Mongolia -paper:
www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/09/energy-nuclear-mongolia-idUSL3E7G80HD20110509

[The Virginian]

Permanent storage of spent nuclear fuel has been a nagging problem for a half-century or more.

Why can't we just drop them into the nearest active volcano?

them into the deepest carverns of earth we can find.

Or - Send them to another planet or even send them into the Sun?

Lot's of ways to dispose of them - They were made from Earth they can be returned to Earth. They just don't want to speend the money.

[The Virginian]

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

They are now planning on using the Japan meltdown site as storage. Anyone know if this is a 1/2 decent idea? Seems a bit off to me, but I'm no nuclear physicist.

[The Virginian]

I believe they were already storing it there before the Eathquake. I also think many of the US sites do the same thing. Costs very little to throw it out in the back yard!

[Aman A.K.A. Ahamburger]

Interesting, thanks.