Reply to: Recycling pollution

[d000hg]

Really? Where's that then?

Um, when I talked about adding iron to aluminium? I didn't use the word because anyone who knows chemistry to 12yo level would understand what I meant.

[WTFH]

Our raised beds (and the chicken houses) came from Solway Recycling. Yes, they had a bad fire a few years ago. At least it's an attempt to do something, rather than hide behind the Wail complaining about any attempts to do any good.

[DoctorStrangelove]

you missed that I'd mentioned thermite in my post.

Really? Where's that then?

I well remember the joy of attempting to gas weld or braze aluminium. Great fun.

The brazed piece held for years & years until the damp in the shed finally encouraged the flux to eat through & it broke.

That reminds me, must get rid of all that welding kit, it's now surplus to requirements.

A bit like some of those windmills.

[vetran]

It's a shame that in your attempt to be a smartarse you missed that I'd mentioned thermite in my post. I'm imaging you've never done it because it is not that easy, you have to have your materials in powdered form in the right ratio and then ignite using a very high temperature like magnesium (which is also not super flammable). You can't just burn lumps of aluminium.

you can melt it which was great fun at college.

[d000hg]

Yes, very hard.

It's a shame that in your attempt to be a smartarse you missed that I'd mentioned thermite in my post. I'm imaging you've never done it because it is not that easy, you have to have your materials in powdered form in the right ratio and then ignite using a very high temperature like magnesium (which is also not super flammable). You can't just burn lumps of aluminium.

[DoctorStrangelove]

Pretty hard to burn aluminium (suppose you could add some iron) and copper.

Yes, very hard.

[d000hg]

Pretty hard to burn aluminium (suppose you could add some iron) and copper.

[vetran]

What happens to the Aluminium, Copper etc?

sent to India to be burnt on a beach like our techno waste?

[Zigenare]

When German wind turbines reach end of life, they're burned. For electricity.

What happens to the Aluminium, Copper etc?

[NotAllThere]

When German wind turbines reach end of life, they're burned. For electricity.

[dsc]

Problem is that they shove it with other households recycling and if it "contaminated" e.g. something is mixed in the container it shouldn't be then the entire stuff is disposed off.

Also Norway and some other EU countries import our waste to incinerate for energy.

Big problem is that a lot of place simply get incentives to burn the lot, rather than recycle.

This whole household waste recycling scheme is basically a scam, around 10-15% of what you sort and "recycle" actually gets recycled, the rest just burns and creates more CO2 than burning coal. It's all in place to make people feel good about all the tulipe they throw away and how much of it actually gets produced.

Best of luck to planet Earth...

[SueEllen]

Don't have to look far, majority of your recycling bin goes in the incinerator anyway. So all that sorting malarkey, washing yogurt pots etc. is absolutely pointless.

Problem is that they shove it with other households recycling and if it "contaminated" e.g. something is mixed in the container it shouldn't be then the entire stuff is disposed off.

Also Norway and some other EU countries import our waste to incinerate for energy.

[dsc]

Don't have to look far, majority of your recycling bin goes in the incinerator anyway. So all that sorting malarkey, washing yogurt pots etc. is absolutely pointless.

[SueEllen]

I thought Turkey had changed its name to Türkiye?

[ladymuck]

Nah we just ship it abroad its not like we share the Earth!

https://committees.parliament.uk/com...alth%20impacts.

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