{"id":616,"date":"2011-10-11T20:21:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T20:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collab.scrapyardchallenge.com\/?p=616"},"modified":"2011-10-11T21:32:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T21:32:53","slug":"neil-seldman-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.collab.scrapyardchallenge.com\/?p=616","title":{"rendered":"Neil Seldman Lecture!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are my notes from Neil Seldman<\/a>‘s Talk about Recycling in the US to our class on Tuesday, October 11, 2011<\/p>\n

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Neil Seldman<\/a> Talk<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sustainability, decentralization, democracy, development, solid waste
\nNew Rules – laws needed for sustainable economy<\/p>\n

Economic development in rural areas.
\nGarbage, solid waste<\/p>\n

Municipal Solid Waste – throw out 250 million tons a year
\nConstruction and demolition waste – 250 tons a year
\n500 million tons a year of valuable raw materials<\/p>\n

US wastes 12 billions tons of materials a year – waste from extracting raw materials from objects we consume
\nGarbage – controlled at citizen level
\nLast 7 mayors of NYC have tried to build incinerators and failed<\/p>\n

Recycling:<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Environmental benefits – less waste<\/p>\n

Economic Perspective – cheaper to use recycled materials<\/p>\n

Landfill vs Incinerators<\/p>\n

US is limitless when it comes to landfills
\n500 million to build an incinerator = 1 billion over 20 years
\nRecycling is much cheaper – costs the same to pick them up as garbage<\/p>\n

NYC – understand how garbage is collected to match the cityscape with technology
\nNYC = too hard to have bins for recycled materials because of density<\/p>\n

1 job from 10 million pounds of garbage
\nmany jobs for recycling centerss
\ngrey matter – used will create jobs
\ndeconstruction = ex offender credit
\nPredicts that recycling will win out over incineration and landfills<\/p>\n

Plastic made from plant matter is the new wave of recycling<\/p>\n

Recycling is Propaganda
\n2 companies control 16% of the total garbage hauling market in the US
\nThey make more money from landfills than recycling<\/p>\n

Wall Street hates Recycling – because it costs so much to build a landfill
\nRight Wing Intellectuals
\nRecycling is a communist plot – Governments think this
\nSince Obama was elected, the right wing anti recycling groups have been joined by the liberals<\/p>\n

Entitlements – for people – social security, etc…
\nfor corporations
\neconomics and local control<\/p>\n

Focus on 3 Technologies:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anarobic Digestion<\/strong> – food waste keep it segregated, don’t mix it, shred it and let it rot to get Methane gas which can be used<\/p>\n

Building Deconstruction<\/strong> – made to think about how they can be taken apart – Mercedes Benz builds it cars to be reused – the same applies to buildings<\/p>\n

Repair and Reuse<\/strong> – take 5% of the waste stream and its worth more than it would be as trash
\nBest Example: St. Vincent DePaul in Eugene, Oregon<\/p>\n

Design for Reuse
\nActivists who organize for recycling<\/p>\n

Intellectual History Behind recycling – comes from the era in the US where industrialization was making an impact<\/p>\n

Thorsten Veblen – Conspicuous Consumption<\/p>\n

Captains of Consciousness: Advertising and the Social Roots of the Consumer Culture<\/p>\n

Paul Goodman<\/p>\n

Electronic Waste – goes to China
\nStudy garbage you will never be unemployed<\/p>\n

Documentary:<\/strong>\u00a0“Exporting Harm”<\/p>\n

Book:<\/strong> Plastic Ocean<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are my notes from Neil Seldman‘s Talk about Recycling in the US to our class on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 Neil Seldman Talk Sustainability, decentralization, democracy, development, solid waste New Rules – laws needed for sustainable economy Economic development in rural areas. Garbage, solid waste Municipal Solid Waste – throw out 250 million tons … <\/p>\n

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