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[screamingdonkey]

Im not sure our TV has a standby on it. I just use the remote to turn the power off to it.

That is standby. If you don't turn the pwoer off manually (either at the wall, or a push button on the TV) then it is using very nearly the same amount of power as when it is on.

Indeed, not many people realise that only about 15% of the power an appliance, such as a TV, uses is consumed during it's operation - meaning 85% power is used when it's on standby.
In June 2005, the (then) environment minister Eliot Morley revealed that studies showed electrical equipment in sleep mode in the UK 'used roughly 7TWh of energy and emitted around 800,000 tonnes of carbon'.
He added, 'To put it another way, the entire population of Glasgow could fly to New York and back again and the resulting emissions would still be less than that from devices left in sleep mode.'

Quite a shocking statistic and when you think about DVD/Video players, the average 'use' of these (i.e. when actually playing a DVD/video) in the UK is estimated at 5%, you realise just how much energy we waste by leaving these on standby for over 8,000 hours a year!

 

[SuperColey1]

Here in Lincoln we've had kerbside recycling for about 10 years and greenwaste bins nearly as long.

Last year they moved onto brown wheelie bins for recycling (to go with the black refuse one and the green garden waste on)

I can enlighten you on the garden waste issue quite easily. I work for William Sinclair (J Arthur Bowers Composts). The garden waste you recycle is composted for up to 13 weeks and then goes through processing to make sure it is all a nominal size. Then we buy it and add a certain percentage of it into composts that you in turn buy from the garden centre.

In theory a percentage of the compost you buy used to be in your garden and the council took it for free, then sold it to the processors who then sold it to us who then sold it back to you. lol

It will depend who the council is selling the greenwaste to and what purpose they use it for as to what they let you put in it, therefore some will let you put veg peel and some won't

Here in Lincoln they promise to fine people who regularly put recyclable plastic, tin and paper into their refuse, but I have heard cases of some councils dumping the recycles into landfill if they haven't got time or budget to do the recycling which defeats the object and wastes our time.

Lincoln does not let you recycle glass as they don't have glass recycling plant, It has to be taken to the supermarket glass dumps, whereas over the Lincoln border in the adjoining North Hykeham (different district) they can put their glass into their recycle bins because they have a glass recycling plant!!!! the supermarket I go to up the road is in North Hykeham ridiculously enough.

As to the China debate, I think people have toremember that in a world where the rich countries sell to the poor countries and charge their own monetry value, thus making the poor country gets poorer and in debt, thus hindering the development of the poor country, that the majority of their population are not educated about recycling whereas there is no excuse for anyone in UK or USA or Germnay etc as not one of our population could ever say they had never heard about recycling or environmentally sound alternatives.

Andy

 

[-germ-]

You've probably all googled this already, but for those who haven't;
Link...
Not sure how accurate this is and there'll be loopholes all over the place but found it interesting...

 

[SuperColey1]

Thats quite an interesting picture. I see that Holland's steel industry is heading the European problem areas (unless the red parts indicate red light areas)

Strange how the italian swiss border is such a polluter though.

andy

 

[Tolak]

Well it looks like the feds have stepped in, and won't let them increase dumping; http/www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/c...1,2065258.story