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Tom Francis - SWSports

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:16:14 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:27:15 -0400, H the K
wrote:

Ft Myers is burning their trash for electricity. I think that is an
excellent use. It is certainly a reliable fuel source.
I think they should be burning the paper and plastic "recycle" too.
Nobody has even convinced me trucking this stuff 500-1500 miles was
good for the environment or economically viable.
My neighbor, VP of Raymond Lumber, thought it might be a valuable
marketing tool to be able to say those recycled bottles you throw in
the blue tubs come back as the Trex he sells and add some gee whiz
info about the process.. In that little quest for knowledge he found
out we were trucking the plastic to a plant in New York.
The paper was being processed in Georgia.

I hope the fort is doing better than military bases usually do in
pollution control.

This fort has not been a military base since the war of northern
aggression.
Hey it is (Robert E) Lee County. ;-)

The waste to energy incinerator has been blessed by the
environmentalists as being as clean as the new gas powered plant.
(both a whole lot better than the bunker oil plant they displaced.)
The trash plant doesn't even contribute to the thermal water pollution
that makes the Caloosahatchee River a manatee hangout.

Speaking of recycling, the new "Dirty Jobs" episode (last week's) had
an interesting one on mattress recycling.

Among the interesting facts - almost all of the mattress and/or box
springs are 100% recyled into other stuff including the fabric.

Best fact of all - the overall weight of a mattress increases by about
10% over the years with the addition of such things as dead skin
cells, residue from various fluids and atmospheric dust.