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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: ericire12 on December 26, 2008, 11:05:24 AM
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http://earth911.com/blog/2008/11/11/treecycle-this-holiday-season/
Treecycle This Holiday Season
Method #1: Chipping
Most community recycling programs rely on chipping, as this method tends to be simple, cost-efficient and the chips can be used in a variety of ways. For example, raw chips can be used as:
* Landscaping and path cover for parks, school campuses and private residences
* Ground cover in orchards and Christmas tree farms
* Weed control around the bases of utility poles
* Cover for playground areas
* Landfill daily cover
* Partial composting into mulch
Method #2: Using the Whole Tree
Whole Christmas trees can also be a valuable contribution to environmental programs that restore habitats such as:
* Dune & Coastal Restoration
* Rebuilding Wetlands
* Wildlife Habitats
* Fishing Spots
By comparison, the only benefit to trashing your tree is that you’ll give a temporary pine fresh smell to a landfill.
To find the nearest Christmas tree recycling program in your area, use Earth911’s recycling location search.
Do these enviro-nut-jobs not understand that it probably does more harm to the earth to take your tree to have it recycled then to not have it recycled? Think of all the fossil fuels that are used and all the carbon that is emitted!
Here is an idea..... do what I did and recycle your tree the way the good Lord intended -- throw it into the woods!
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Mrs. T recycled our tree back into the same box it's been living in for the past 5 years, then tucked it away in the attic to await next Christmas (or until we move, if the damned house ever sells!!)
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In northern Michigan people use their discarded Christmas trees to mark the path of a 4 mile ice bridge from St. Ignace to Mackinac Island. The ice "highway" usually opens in February and may last anywhere from a few days to a couple of months. When the ice melts the trees fall to the bottom and disappear. They become homes for fish.
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Not reusing things is one of the problems of today's "throw away society". For an example Flour and grain bags were the source of much clothing material in the old days.
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I take all the trees I can get my hands on. We bring them home and throw them in the pen where the goats are. The love to eat the needles. Once they are done, we cut them up and burn them in the wood stove, and use the small branches as kindling.
Now that is recycling.. :)
-Bidah
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(http://i417.photobucket.com/albums/pp251/runstowin/colorpotato.jpg)
Marilyn Monroe was an early tree hugger.
She really knew how to recycle.
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thats a photoshop
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Actually I first saw this photo or another from the same shoot in a biography of MM back in the eighties.
You can reference this website, 3 photos down on the left side, and there she is all dressed up in a fancy potato sack.
http://www.reelclassics.com/Actresses/Marilyn/marilyn-gallery3.htm
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The B&W one looks more authentic.... I guess the colorized one just threw me off
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I just got done with a bullet casting session. You know, turning old bullets picked up off the backstop into new bullets that can be assembled into reloaded ammunition.
Does bullet-casting count as recycling? For that matter, does reloading count as recycling? After all, aren’t we recycling used brass?
Maybe next time I find myself talking with a hippie, I'll mention I'm an avid recycler and hope he asks how I recycle.
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I just got done with a bullet casting session. You know, turning old bullets picked up off the backstop into new bullets that can be assembled into reloaded ammunition.
Does bullet-casting count as recycling? For that matter, does reloading count as recycling? After all, aren’t we recycling used brass?
Maybe next time I find myself talking with a hippie, I'll mention I'm an avid recycler and hope he asks how I recycle.
Hehe :)
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The B&W one looks more authentic.... I guess the colorized one just threw me off
It was back and white, this one was probably from a negative that was hand painted, in any event I did my part to save the planet, I recycled an old photo.
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Pickin' up brass, scrounging for hulls, collecting lead for bullets, and everything else that goes along with reloading is the finest form of recycling there is! If you don't believe it, ask Mr. Gore and his buddies about keeping brass, lead and plastic out of the landfills ;)
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I've been recycling my garbage for years. I end up with wonderful sweet-smelling black compost. Flowers and garden plants love it and I don't need to buy chemical fertilizer. I don't recycle my trash but still have less than a bagful most weeks.
The 3 R's are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.
Reduce the amount of crap you buy.
Reuse what you can, like your brass.
Recycle what you don't reuse.
Or put it all out to the curb and it magically disappears. Good or bad, I do a little of everything.
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Hippies would hate me. 'Recycle' for anything not metal, plastic or glass = burn barrel. I'll be effed if I'm spending two hours of time off breaking down boxes, cutting them to 'approved' size, and bundling paper (also to approved size) and then PAYING to have it taken away. As it is, the time to separate the other stuff and wait in line at the recycling center was another hour with drive. Too much. Stopped that also. I guess the part that really tweaked me was when the manager at the recycle plant told me how profitable it was for the company.
That's when it hit me... of course it's profitable for him. Slave labor and free raw materials by unfunded local government mandate. It would take an idiot like me to not make a profit. I went to the town meeting and told them if I wasn't getting properly reimbursed for my time and materials, I QUIT. Had my labor rate, hours, value of the glass, aluminum, steel, paper per cwt and the amounts I contributed and submitted my bill to the lawyer.
After review, I am exempted from the law. ;D
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I would recycle my trash (cans, paper, plastic, etc) but it is not offered as a service by my garbage collector unless I pay extra for it. I'll be damned if I am gonna do that, or drive to the dump every week to do it. If it were convenient/free, I would be all for it.
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For an example Flour and grain bags were the source of much clothing material in the old days.
I can't remember the last time I saw any product in a cloth sack? Yes, I remember when they did. My dad was a wholesale grocer and I unloaded tons of flour and grain in cloth sacks. But that was a few years ago. Are the larger containers still cloth?
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I can't remember the last time I saw any product in a cloth sack? Yes, I remember when they did. My dad was a wholesale grocer and I unloaded tons of flour and grain in cloth sacks. But that was a few years ago. Are the larger containers still cloth?
I doubt it, I was thinking more about depression era calico and other print bags.
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Speaking of old flour sacks, I have my Grandmother's old steamer trunk with things in it that she kept over the years. I have one of my dad's old baby gowns that she made from a flour sack. There are also some needle-point work in there she sewed on flour sack sides. She also had a large collection of stainless steel silverware that came piece-by-piece in 20 pound flour sacks as a promotional type thing way back. The fork or knife or spoon would be at the bottom of the sack after it was emptied. She had a LOT of those things too.
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I can't remember the last time I saw any product in a cloth sack? Yes, I remember when they did. My dad was a wholesale grocer and I unloaded tons of flour and grain in cloth sacks. But that was a few years ago. Are the larger containers still cloth?
NO they are not. I buy my bread flour and my regular flour in 50# sacks and they are in a heavy paper( like feed sacks)
Wish they were in cloth. But afraid that everything bulk is either in a weird reinforced plastic meshy kind of stuff or the heavy feed sack paper.
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There are cloth sacks used in factories for flour and other things but they usually hold from 250 pounds up to a ton. Anything consumer-size is paper or plastic. I think my mom still has dish towels made from flour sacks.
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My great grandmother recycled neck ties, she made quilts out of them, I have one she made for me when I was an infant.
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My great grandmother recycled neck ties, she made quilts out of them, I have one she made for me when I was an infant.
"Patch work" quilts are considered "folk art" and can bring surprising prices.
Something I learned watching Antiques Roadshow ;D
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I can't remember the last time I saw any product in a cloth sack? Yes, I remember when they did. My dad was a wholesale grocer and I unloaded tons of flour and grain in cloth sacks. But that was a few years ago. Are the larger containers still cloth?
The only thing left I am aware of is burlap for 100# bags of bran. Never knew how many uses I could find for burlap until I had it.
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The only thing left I am aware of is burlap for 100# bags of bran. Never knew how many uses I could find for burlap until I had it.
You buy bran 100 pounds at a time ? :o DUDE, Your problem may not be lack of fiber
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I'm trying to figure out how many lifetimes 100 pounds of bran would last.
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I don't know how many lifetimes but you'd probably wear out 2 or 3 a$$holes.
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I'm trying to figure out how many lifetimes 100 pounds of bran would last.
In a previous life we farmed and had a farrow to finish operation. Feed for the farrowing barn had 200 pounds of bran in a ton of feed. Works on sows just like old men ... and you ain't seen nothing until you've seen, or worked with, a 400 pound constipated sow!
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In a previous life we farmed and had a farrow to finish operation. Feed for the farrowing barn had 200 pounds of bran in a ton of feed. Works on sows just like old men ... and you ain't seen nothing until you've seen, or worked with, a 400 pound constipated sow!
I want to continue 'ain't seen nothing'.
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In a previous life we farmed and had a farrow to finish operation. Feed for the farrowing barn had 200 pounds of bran in a ton of feed. Works on sows just like old men ... and you ain't seen nothing until you've seen, or worked with, a 400 pound constipated sow!
And sow's ain't something to be around even when they're not constipated! Always fed mine with veggies from the local market - all I had to do was ask and they put aside all of their "bad" produce and I picked it up and fed it to the pigs.
One season, couldn't face pigs 2 years in a row, lost my shirt on 'em too.
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I don't know how many lifetimes but you'd probably wear out 2 or 3 a$$holes.
ROTFLMAO. :)
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The only thing left I am aware of is burlap for 100# bags of bran. Never knew how many uses I could find for burlap until I had it.
There are still a few items at warehouse stores like sams and cosco
(http://graphics.samsclub.com/images/products/0074504214151_LG.jpg)
http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=195183&pCatg=4696
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That could be reused as a book bag, purse, grocery bag, or lots of other things. I believe in reusing stuff when I can even if it's just as a container for something else. I'm not like my mom though. She has a hundred bowls from butter and cool whip and cottage cheese, and the lids from a hundred other bowls that don't fit. I just put my trash out to the curb in a 50 pound rock salt bag that I emptied last week. I use dog food bags to put trash in too. I put all my pizza boxes and furnace flters in a big box and throw the whole thing out when it's full. A box of 50 trash bags lasts me all year so I save a little bit of money. The less I spend on other stuff the more money I have for ammo.
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That could be reused as a book bag, purse, grocery bag, or lots of other things. I believe in reusing stuff when I can even if it's just as a container for something else. I'm not like my mom though. She has a hundred bowls from butter and cool whip and cottage cheese, and the lids from a hundred other bowls that don't fit. I just put my trash out to the curb in a 50 pound rock salt bag that I emptied last week. I use dog food bags to put trash in too. I put all my pizza boxes and furnace flters in a big box and throw the whole thing out when it's full. A box of 50 trash bags lasts me all year so I save a little bit of money. The less I spend on other stuff the more money I have for ammo.
Funny, I remember my Grandmother did the same thing with containers.
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"Patch work" quilts are considered "folk art" and can bring surprising prices.
Something I learned watching Antiques Roadshow ;D
Maybe it's a good thing I held onto it.
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It seems that hippies or what we call ferals are the same the world over, they just have NFI.
They object to cutting down trees yet live in wood framed houses, they object to hunting yet they eat meat from styrofoam packets and KFC, they wear clothes made from animal byproducts. They object to big industry yet never fail to pick up or collect their social security from multinational banks, with proceeds of our taxes from wages derived from working for such companies.
Perhaps we should stop contributing to the benefit of their welfare ???
Better still dump them in the middle of the artic with an axe, rifle and fishing rod and see if they can survive a winter, if they can then they can come back and whinge some more, if not then ? (I really cant see a downside) at least we get some peace and quiet ;D
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It seems that hippies or what we call ferals are the same the world over, they just have NFI.
They object to cutting down trees yet live in wood framed houses, they object to hunting yet they eat meat from styrofoam packets and KFC, they wear clothes made from animal byproducts. They object to big industry yet never fail to pick up or collect their social security from multinational banks, with proceeds of our taxes from wages derived from working for such companies.
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And now they've multiplied to the point where they put in their own president. Just great.
I'm with you Jumbo on keeping that spare change for the really important stuff.
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If you reduce consumption,reuse things, and CASH IN your recyclables, (ask DD Mack about the beer cans ) You will have MORE ammo money.
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It seems that hippies or what we call ferals are the same the world over, they just have NFI.
They object to cutting down trees yet live in wood framed houses, they object to hunting yet they eat meat from styrofoam packets and KFC, they wear clothes made from animal byproducts. They object to big industry yet never fail to pick up or collect their social security from multinational banks, with proceeds of our taxes from wages derived from working for such companies.
Perhaps we should stop contributing to the benefit of their welfare ???
Better still dump them in the middle of the artic with an axe, rifle and fishing rod and see if they can survive a winter, if they can then they can come back and whinge some more, if not then ? (I really cant see a downside) at least we get some peace and quiet ;D
They couldn't survive a winter if you dropped them in Ft. Lauderdale without a credit card.
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They couldn't survive a winter if you dropped them in Ft. Lauderdale without a credit card.
Sure I've run into these fine folks, I call them candyasses.
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They couldn't survive a winter if you dropped them in Ft. Lauderdale without a credit card.
Sure I've run into these fine folks, I call them candyasses.
lol ;D
I see dead people. ;)
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They couldn't survive a winter if you dropped them in Ft. Lauderdale without a credit card.
Sure I've run into these fine folks, I call them candyasses.
Or my dad's favorite term for folks like that..."pie-asses".
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Ok, dead pie-asses.
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When in NC, the tree farms up there are a tight run outfit, albeit by a loose bunch of good ol boys. ::)
But they were collected and sunk in the local lakes for crappie beds, or chipped, or the bonfire method with some homemade peach moonshine, er, uh,.. beer. 8)
Where's the previous thread that showed the tree hippies crying hysterically? That was more scary. :o
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When in NC, the tree farms up there are a tight run outfit, albeit by a loose bunch of good ol boys. ::)
But they were collected and sunk in the local lakes for crappie beds, or chipped, or the bonfire method with some homemade peach moonshine, er, uh,.. beer. 8)
Where's the previous thread that showed the tree hippies crying hysterically? That was more scary. :o
Now THAT is more to my liking..........especially the part about the peach 'youknowwhat' beverage. ;)
I AM from Georgia....and we love our peaches.
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