Pagan Centered Podcast – Episode 148 – Recycling, PCP Style

2010
04.20

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02:21 Why aren’t the faces of our pagan community making a lot of headway in recycling and protecting mother earth? Why aren’t they leading the way in the new green revolution?
04:07 It’s very expensive to be eco-friendly for companies
04:30 Eco-responsiblity is more than just having recycled paper
04:53 Cost and quality of recycled paper vs. normal dead tree paper
05:53 Large cities have easier access to recycling, as well facilities to recycle more materials; such as batteries.
06:21 Some recycling complexes give you money for the metal you bring, but many housing and apartment complexes have a community dumpster. You don’t see the immediate gratification.
06:54 Most recycling programs have to fund themselves.
07:49 Community drop-off for recycling is great, but you have to make sure it’s staffed well to clean and pick up what people drop off.
08:44 A lot of the expenses from starting eco-friendly. There’s a big financial gap with common processed products as compared to recylced.
09:42 Americans don’t want to give anything up, but still want to consume less.
09:59 A lot of recycling costs also comes from taking out impurities.
10:14 Not all pagans are Gaia worshipers. Don’t dry to guilt-trip pagans into trying to recycling. Some of us just don’t care.
10:48 Recycling has gotten so much cooler! Make it better, make it cheaper!
11:15 Not just recycling, but the process of everyday materials (like soap) that has a lot of chemical drain off in production as well as in the product itself.
11:49 New drainage basin system for farming that holds the chemicals so they can reuse their fertilizer water.
12:17 It took ages to do the damage to the earth, our generation can only do so much, even if everyone got involved now.
13:16 So much damage comes from Americans being germophobes! So many disposible products that we don’t need. We’d do a lot of good going back to recycling glass bottles.
14:20 Until a person DOES recycle, the impact of how much good they can do doesn’t really hit them.
14:58 Making recycling easier on the consumers, gives people more of an incentive to recycle.
15:33 While larger cities have a lot of advances, smaller towns or cities still have to sort, clean and be anal retentive when sorting their recycled materials for pick up.
16:30 The Disney movie Wall-E making a good point not only for children, but for adults.
17:55 Our generation trying to fix what’s wrong with the earth, is like a child trying to fix their parents bad relationship. We don’t know what we’re doing.
18:32 My neighbors aren’t doing it, why should I?
18:52 Gary hates the phrase “Think Globally” People have a hard enough time with their own lives let alone thinking about people in Zimbabwe.
19:39 A lot of recycling programs end up bring in a good cash flow once they get started.
19:59 Seventh Generation is a really hardcore hippy movement based company that do a lot of good in regards to recycled products.
20:17 Be careful of companies that rely on legality to make some claims that aren’t authentic.
20:57 A lot of this may have come from the hippies, but watch out for the mindset. Not everything that claims eco-friendly is good for the earth. Look at hybrid cars!
22:23 Subaru is the only plant in the US that is carbon neutral.
22:33 Planting trees to balance out factory emissions is better than using carbon credits.
23:11 If you break a CFL lightbulb…you have to have a hazmat team come in to remove due to the content. How’s that for eco-friendly?
24:30 New LED lightbulbs! They’re awesome!
24:49 Light your house in Christmas lights…not any Christmas lights…LED Christmas lights!
25:28 Everyone panic about CFL’s…GO
26:15 If you put your computer on sleep…there’s still power going to it so you’re not saving energy. Your computer is an energy vampire.
27:12 Dave saved a few dollars on his power bill on one month for changing just one lightbulb to an LED.
27:50 Another piece of hippy advice not to listen to, as touched on in Episode 99…planting your own herb garden. It’s not as easy as they’d have you belive.
28:10 Drive by minting.
28:24 Earth911.org is a practical website on where to drop off recycling, even engine oil!
29:10 If you go way out of your way to recycle, you’re spending gas and money. Just petition for a recycling center!
29:37 Dave has a lot to say about how curbside pickup sucks.
30:30 Using a tupperware drawer to organize recycling materials make things easier.
30:58 Beware of Green Electricity. They lie to you. They’re selling you the same crap, for a higher price.
32:55 Electricity is kind of messed up when you start looking at it.
32:59 Green electricity tells you they use renewable fuels. Keep in mind…garbage…which is a heavy pollutant…is a renewable fuel as well.
34:01 Just look at the ethanol fiasco in the US…
34:07 The human body is a renewable fuel
34:30 Web hosting companies will tell you they’re green or self sustaning…but all they do is check the box for green electricity with their electric company.
34:54 There are some data centers around the world that can pull it off…solar, hydro, all kind of weird stuff. Too bad there’s only 3 so far…..
35:26 Lets take all the overweight Wiccans…and make them run on a hamster wheel!!! Instant renewable energy!
36:29 If you’re into the whole recycling…think about reducing and reusing too.
36:36 Reducing…translation? By crap that lasts longer!
37:36 Hippies make non-chemical detergent. But Dave and Ashlee needs a biohazard material to clean their bathroom. If you’re not ready to pass out from the fumes…it’s not clean!
38:15 Amber tried an all purpose Shampoo…that will also do laundry and kitchen cleaning! Kinda scary…..but it works well.
39:07 Dave…learn to set the box on fire. It’s not even made of recycled cardboard.
39:21 People throw out a lot of useful stuff…but we’re so germophobic…we have to throw everything away instead of cleaning and reusing.
40:06 Ashlee’s going to make her tea bottles and make armor out of it.
40:24 Also consider reusing stuff. Go to flea markets and the Salvation Army!
40:42 Oh, the treasures we’ve found
41:33 Large trash pick up day with new stuff just sitting there on the side of the road. Go pick it up! Don’t let it go to waste.
42:50 There’s nothing wrong with dumpster diving…unless you’re from Canada.
43:19 Scrappers are coming back! And they make money from your thrown away metal!
44:32 We buy new stuff, and throw the old stuff (and old being under a year now) out when it’s perfectly good. Too much small penis compensation.
45:13 If you do the dumpster diving thing…you have to be creative!
46:34 Nobody wants to listen when people talk about global warming because they don’t understand the concept.
47:44 We know we want to fix things, but we’re doing this blind. We don’t know how to fix this as a society.
48:47 People are inherently stupid. If you want people to understand, you have to simplify like you’re talking to a child.
49:25 A lot of these people may have not passed sixth grade…keep that in mind.
49:47 Whoever a group belives is their leader, most people will follow without question.
50:05 Look at our spokespeople too! Flying in your private jet to tell people not to drive their cars to save the enviroment is not the smartest move guys….
51:26 People are still having disagreements over small topics. We can’t expect people to unify together on large topics to make a difference if we’re still bickering over small things.
52:05 Europe didn’t seem to be as indepth as it is in the United States.
52:56 Maybe Europe has progressed beyone recycling!!! Universal consciousness is the solution!
53:24 Is it hard to do something for yourself by yourself?
53:51 People don’t like to go against the grain. Girls don’t even like to go the bathroom by themselves let alone do something like recycling all on their own. Even if it will more than likely never be known to their peers, if there’s a chance…they’ll avoid it just to belong.
55:06 More and more you’ll start to see recycled materials in everyday life, it’s becoming mainstream.
55:24 Dare County, NC has instituted biodegradable or paper bags for businesses over a given square footage.
56:09 Walmart in Texas have boxes where you can drop off bags to be recycled.