Carbon Footprint

mr b asked:


Hi I have about 5 old computer systems, 5 monitors, keyboards, mice and cords. I’ve heard it is not good to throw them in the trash and would like to know how I can dispose of them. I’ve heard there are recyclers. I live in Illinois in a Chicago suburb of DuPage County. I would like to drop this stuff off somewhere, and get rid of it for FREE or as cheaply as possible. Any advice? Thanks all
These computers are complete garbage, half the stuff is missing or not working, some of the monitors work some don’t. I just want to unload them quick, I don’t have time to sell or ship etc..

vabostrom asked:


From experience, if you don’t wash that can out, get ready for lots of ants!!!!!!!!!

Peace! asked:


I feel bad throwing it in the garbage when I am finished with my restaurant leftovers, but I have been told you can not recycle it. It has the #6 on the bottom inside the recycle triangle. I recycle almost everything that crosses my path in my life. I have very little garbage to take out.
So, can I give the containers a rinse & throw it in my recycle bin? or shall I just throw it in the trash?
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judy bo-booty asked:


I ask because I recycle newspaper. I have 2 children & I don’t have the time to be driving an hour to recycle plastic. I’d love to, but it’s too far. I’ve searched online, there’s nothing closer. So, my question is……if you don’t recycle, does the recycleling centers distance have anything to do w/ that? Would you recycle if it were closer?

redcar_racer asked:


If we plant a load of trees to remain carbon neutral, will we not eventually have the problem of lack of water. All these extra trees will surely suck up the already dwindling supplies. Just a thought, let me know if I am wrong/ right or maybe.

David Filo asked:


Yahoo! has announced it’s going carbon neutral in 2007. We want to do our part to combat climate change. We’re investing in greenhouse gas reduction projects around the world that will make our impact on the environment essentially neutral. To read more about what this means, visit Yahoo! for Good (link below). We want your ideas on how we can reach our goal. In what innovative or creative offset projects do you think we should invest?

Yahoo! for Good: http://brand.yahoo.com/forgood/environment/carbon_neutral.html

Icefire asked:


How does this work exactly, I have been wondering, I don’t want to pollute more than I have to to live.

Kevin S asked:


As I learned in my resources geology class: biomass fuel is carbon neutral because burning it is only releasing carbon that was in the air before the plant converted it into other compounds.

Really? So are fossil fuels carbon neutral because they are merely releasing carbon that was in the atmosphere at an earlier point in time as well?

The facts appear to me that the carbon in biomass is essentially locked, and that loss will be deposited in the Ocean, where it would be locked in sedimentary rock or part of the natural carbon flux of the ocean., NOT directly deposited back into the troposphere.

Am I incorrect?
Forgot to say therefore it is not carbon neutral to sum things up.
Fermatsim, if the photosynthesis balances outgassing in CO2, then burning biomass would disrupt the balance….
Basically my problem is this: if the carbon cycle is naturally balanced through outgassing from volcanoes, photosynthesis, acid rain, oceanic diffusion, etc. Than how does burning back the carbon made in photosynthesis keep the balance?

Explain to me how that makes sense.
Also, it has been presented to me that the carbon cycle takes thousands of years to re-balance (hence ages of “snowball” and “hothouse” Earth). How would the burning have no effect (I realize that in the percentage of total carbon it may be a negligible effect on small scales, but that is not my question)?

I <3 My Hamster Smokey! asked:


I read in a question the yahoo had annouced it was going carbon neutral. How do think Yahoo! will do it?

Stan S asked:


Would this be a good example for other areas of society? Could it then be extended to the playoffs for baseball, football, basketball, soccor and hockey?Would this help get this idea into the mainstream? Could they’re entire seasons eventually become carbon nuetral after a few years? I think it would be a great example and would help make going carbon nuetral mainstream and just another part of what society does and I think that with so many events in so many sports carbon nuetral it would really make a big diffrence.