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[todd]

^ I assume VV is on solar

[Nparker]

^ I assume VV is on solar

I think this forum mostly runs off hot air.

[todd]

I think this forum mostly runs off hot air.

I think that’s just the VV top secret astrological sub data centre balloon

[todd]

I’m disappointed in you all:

“Nearly half the waste going to landfill could be recycled, CRD report says”: https://www.timescol...rt-says-6677966

[Victoria Watcher]

Nothing to stop them instituting a sort at the dump. Turn the wood waste into toothpicks and wooden cutlery for takeout.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 March 2023 - 10:00 AM.

[todd]

I just buy my own helium tank, wait for a windy day

[UDeMan]

They should burn the wood to generate electricty.

 

It's done all over the world and can be very efficient and clean if done properly.

[Nparker]

They should burn the wood to generate electricty....

Back in the 1970s, in the small town in which I was born (Powell River), they used an incinerator to burn much of the town's combustible garbage. It burned very hot and produced little pollution. The energy from the incinerator was then used to heat the water for the swimming pool at the nearby recreation centre.

[Mike K.]

They should burn the wood to generate electricty.

It's done all over the world and can be very efficient and clean if done properly.

Biofuel! You have to call it biofuel. Then you can burn it.

[Matt R.]

The GVRD still burns about a third of their solid waste. Why not here?

Our CRD recycling depot is open 10-5 and closed on weekends. I guess people with “normal” jobs are SOL on this green, environmental paradise. No recycling for you.

[Mike K.]

Don’t they dump stuff into the ocean on weekends?

[Matt R.]

Lots of folks just burn garbage here.

[Mike K.]

I’m sure the recyclables are included in that?

[Matt R.]

Oh for sure. Backyard burns galore.

[Mike K.]

Crazy, eh.

[Matt R.]

I joke and say it’s the annual tire fire, but the first week in the fall when the fire ban is lifted there is always a garbage smelling haze around for a week or two as people get rid of their collected garbage from over the summer. Our neighbours burnt an entire desk one year, a big old press board boardroom style desk. Middle of their lawn.

Why can’t we harvest this green biofuel for electricity?

[Mike K.]

The joys of being unincorporated.

[Victoria Watcher]

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 March 2023 - 11:23 AM.

[Mike K.]

Compostable food packaging may be very not good for you:

If you bought a salad bowl for lunch in a compostable cardboard container, that greener choice may have come with a dash of "forever chemicals" called PFAS — and so do other kinds of paper food packaging in Canada, a new study suggests.

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PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are a group of more than 9,000 human-made chemicals that contain fluorine bonded to carbon, a strong chemical bond that makes them hard to break down. That means they accumulate over time in the human body and the environment.

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The highest levels of fluorine and PFAS were found in:

Some paper bags for greasy items such as burgers, pastries and donuts.

Compostable paper bowls. The researchers suggested that was because the raw pulp needs to be mixed with a lot of PFAS to make it strong enough and prevent disintegration when it comes in contact with liquids.

The bag and bowl samples each contained five to 14 different PFAS. The most common were 6:2 FTOH, which is known to be toxic to rodents and can be produced by the breakdown of the bigger, heavier PFAS that packaging manufacturers are now using.

- https://www.cbc.ca/n...aging-1.6794550

[Victoria Watcher]

With its landfill stressed by construction products that continue to drive waste in the wrong direction, the Capital Regional District aims to ban some recyclable items from the dump.

 

The CRD wants to reduce the region’s disposal rate to 250 kilograms per capita by 2030, but that figure was still rising in 2022 – largely due to wood and construction waste being landfilled.

 

To reverse that trend, the CRD is proposing banning clean, treated and salvageable wood, plus asphalt roofing and shingles and carpet from Hartland landfill as of next January. Those items were chosen after a consultant identified how robust reuse and recycling markets are already available for them.

 

 

https://www.vicnews....8ca11b97212fd9a

 

 

 

I think perhaps most of the wood can find a home.   I'm not as sure about asphalt shingles.  There might be some paving applications:

 

 

 

In several ways, shingles make an ideal additive to an HMA mix. They add asphalt, fine granules and mineral fillers. They are composed of asphalt, sand and fiber. Shingles are 30-35 percent asphalt, 5-15 percent mineral fiber and 30-50 percent mineral granules. Fiberglass shingles are 15-20 percent asphalt, 5-15 percent felt, 15-20 percent mineral filler and 30-50 percent mineral granules.

 

 

http://asphaltmagazi...gles-as-binder/

 

 

 

 

 

Carpet might be a problem.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 03 May 2023 - 06:23 AM.