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Old 11-19-2010, 11:17 PM   #13 (permalink)
Fremen
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I also re-use plastic grocery bags as small trash bags.
I love holding onto boxes of all sizes. You never know when you need that size box.

I'll keep around interesting shaped jars, too, to put my collection of interesting shaped rocks in.

We'll keep old newspapers around in case we need them to use as protection from paint, Easter Egg dye, shirt dye, or to absorb grease from cookies or other food. Also good for started the charcoal chimney for the grill.

I recently watched a program on one of the learning channels about recycling and the misconceptions about it.

They have a course in one of the big colleges/universities that study landfills and the rate at which trash broke down over the years.

They excavated down a few yards and found intact newspapers from circa 1900 that weren't degrading as much as they thought they should have.

If I recall correctly, the professor said the trash needed air to help break it down faster, and with the trash so compacted, it took it longer than normal to degrade. They're setting out to redesign certain landfills to be more anaerobic.
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