Recycling in the 2000s

creedo299

Epochal Historian
Recycling is a resource, if you so realize that it is one.

From what is recycled today, if you had to, you could make resources in a microcommunity, from what you recycle.

Glass is sorted into clear, green and brown glass.

One needs an oven, that operate from gas, that operates at very high temperature, in order to melt and re-pour glass.

Paper is sorted into newspaper, utility papers such as office general paper and tag-board, which is light cardboard and corrugated cardboard.

Paper can be shredded, boiled and repoured, to a new consistency of use, in varied molds and treatments.

Plastic is sorted by numbers, One and twos being the most common.
In other states, recyclers are forced, to use all or near all of the numbers appointed for recycled plastics.

Plastic can be cleaned with water and soap, then shredded with an industrial shredder and then either blown, or reinvested into heated die shapes.

Aluminum cans and light gauge non-other metals intoned aluminum, can be cleaned, placed in a lower temperature metals furnace and repoured into many shaped and even worked.

Tin cans can be crushed with their paper labels removed, or left on.

They can be placed in a higher temperature furnace and pourered into many differing shaped.

Steel cans, can be remelted, if recycled, however the temperature of the furnace, must be exceedingly high in temperature.

The Masi Warriors, in Africa, use a clay mound, double constant draft air push furnace, fed by a bellows pump, in order to achieve the metals that they used to make spears from.

In any culture, recycling or effective use of disposable resources, is a very, very important task and some communities do not do well, without efficient management of their resources.

*If an alien ship were to have experienced trouble and have to land on post world war three Earth, the best place to look for resources, would be in abandoned either recycle centers, or community dumps.

Robots could gather the rough resources from the dump and recondition of these materials could be accomplished, in order for that ship to have made repairs.
 
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