Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[notabitail]

They look so pretty jumping for berries! Getting to look at everyone's chicken pictures is a great birthday present

Happy birthday!

 

[BDutch]

They don't recycle glass here and my Mom hates how they don't do that (el Paso Texas)

Here either anymore.
I investigated why and the answer was it costs less money for new glass and plastic is even cheaper.
By the time they collect, ship a couple times, disinfectant, inspect and use it's apparently a lot more. Depending on how far the recycling is from the bottling plant.
Used to be all local, now everything is own by one company with a couple plants.

Here lots of glass is recycled but only standardised glass beer bottles are reused after cleaning. All the jars, wine bottles and other bottles are collected in glass containers in 3 colors. White, green and brown. Every supermarket has one on the parking lot and there are more in small recycle stations spread over town.

The recycle factory checks the glass, takes out the wrong glass melts it and makes new bottles/jars.

 

[BDutch]

They look so pretty jumping for berries! Getting to look at everyone's chicken pictures is a great birthday present

Happy birthday.

 

[ChaosMom]

Here lots of glass is recycled but only standardised glass beer bottles are reused after cleaning. All the jars, wine bottles and other bottles are collected in glass containers in 3 colors. White, green and brown. Every supermarket has one on the parking lot and there are more in small recycle stations spread over town.

The recycle factory checks the glass, takes out the wrong glass melts it and makes new bottles/jars.

The recycling at each location, at least in the US, depends on the economics of transport to the facility that uses the separated recycled products. So if your town is relatively close to a glass recycling facility, glass gets collected. If your town is relatively distant from a facility that recycles specialized plastics, for instance, there may be limited opportunities to recycle - it would cost our local recycling collector more to separate plastics and ship that they would get paid.

This is the explanation for all those comments of "But where I used to live, they accepted X and Y!"

(It also explains why glass isn't accepted in some places as in the original post.)

 

[ChaosMom]

tax - our tiny backyard recycling site for nitrogenous avian waste (one day I'll plant my garden!!! ) If you squint until you're cross-eyed, you can maybe see the green Premier1 non-electric chicken fencing:

 

[Vulpes vulpes]

Thank you for the birthday wishes everyone! I don't have any tax to pay right now, but I'll try to get some pics of the in-laws chickens this weekend

 

[BDutch]

The recycling at each location, at least in the US, depends on the economics of transport to the facility that uses the separated recycled products. So if your town is relatively close to a glass recycling facility, glass gets collected. If your town is relatively distant from a facility that recycles specialized plastics, for instance, there may be limited opportunities to recycle - it would cost our local recycling collector more to separate plastics and ship that they would get paid.

This is the explanation for all those comments of "But where I used to live, they accepted X and Y!"

(It also explains why glass isn't accepted in some places as in the original post.)

Its not all economic decisions. Its also rules and regulation. The Paris agreement to protect our environment had influence on rules and regulations in the EU about greenhouse gasses, and doing something against the pollution.

 

[ChaosMom]

Its not all economic decisions. Its also rules and regulation. The Paris agreement to protect our environment had influence on rules and regulations in the EU about greenhouse gasses, and doing something against the pollution.

Yes, for signatories to the Paris agreement...

 

[Molpet]

but what about the cost of disposal of the new / old glass and plastic? Are they ignoring that because with single use it's not their problem? (it becomes someone else's, wherever the single use item ends up, and usually the bill is footed by the public purse, so taxpayers, there)

exactly!! they just look at how they can maximize the companies profits. They don't worry about it unless someone sues and laws are changed

 

[Molpet]

They look so pretty jumping for berries! Getting to look at everyone's chicken pictures is a great birthday present

happy birthday