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Readit NewsI've yet to see any recycling guidelines with anywhere near the amount of required precision. They cover a few obvious things (food scraps, junk mail) and miss 99% of the stuff I actually have to throw out.
At university there was an introductory talk about recycling, where they threatened that a single wrongly discarded piece of trash (uncleaned bottles or food containers IIRC) would prevent the whole batch from being recycled. The obvious conclusion being that if there's even a small amount of doubt about whether something can be recycled, it'd be better not to put it in the recycling bin (and risk the rest of the properly recyclable trash).
I reached out for clarification on various policies - what about bonded plastic + paper, how clean, mixed plastics in bottle assemblies, unlabeled products, etc and they weren't able to answer.
So I'm not at all surprised consumers aren't effectual.
That said, while I want to believe machines are doing a much better, do you have any sources on the recycling statistics? San Jose claims to be an outlier at 74% recycling (diversion rate?) https://www.epa.gov/transforming-waste-tool/zero-waste-case-... - nationwide municipal solid waste looks like only about 1/3 recycled https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-... . If these machines haven't been rolled out, are they very new, or are there some barriers to using them?
You pay enoug for trash in the Bay Area to pay a person to sort the trash by hand
College my dear friend. I apologize, but I meant post secondary.
We have community college + low cost state colleges. CC is almost free, cheap state colleges probably will cause a little debt. Some part time job will probably offset most of this.
Completely free will be abused probably, let’s be honest
There is a clear problem, and a good idea here. (i.e. Right to Try) What needs to happen to make this move forward?
I am getting so mentally exhausted learning about a specific problem, and then experiencing the helplessness of not knowing how to push on driving towards some mutually agreeable resolution.
Add in the fact that there is no way to seemingly coordinate the push towards a resolution. Individuals taking action without coordination feels just the same as taking no action at all. Are there any tools to coordinate the push and keep track of progress?
What about the right to refuse? I don’t think there actually is a problem here, there’s no reason for this Pharma company to provide an expensive untested drug- only potential negatives
This plan seems to have excellent incentive alignment and basically mirrors the system in place, but without the need to be approved for clinical trials.
Experimental treatments being available to people with no options (there must be no applicable option with a proven probability of success or this becomes very questionable) could save drug companies millions-billions in the off chance that it proves to be incompatible with human testing or fails to produce the expected effects in humans.
I would take this up a notch or two for patients in a short-range situation that is certainly fatal, opening the door for them to try treatments that have just barely crossed en-vidrio and seem to have acceptable toxicity in mouse models. This would essentially be donating one’s body to science but in a much more useful form, with the side benefit of a slim chance of life extension.
This could benefit humanity by significantly reducing time to market for some drugs and cutting costs on eventual dead-ends.
I don’t think these people would be useful. Pharma needs controlled double blind studies to actually tell if the therapies work.
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Future headline: Supreme court decision (9-3) says Oregon County can go f*k itself. Majority opinion by Justice Thomas written after he rents his garage out to oil-execs for $10M.
Oregon County increases taxes to pay for the 10 year lawsuit and everyone claps :) what’s another 0.6% am I right?
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I wish more people were aware how much water goes to agriculture and would react accordingly when their government asks them to cut water usage or raises prices - 90% goes to (largely wasteful) farming and they don’t really pay…
It’s not the people taking 2 (gasp) showers a day fault, it’s the almond farmers using floors irrigation
You can go to a library to borrow a book, but you can't go to the library and copy all the books for your own use.