'Garbology' Book By Edward Humes Examines Trash In America

And might this place be a perfect candidate for end-to-end recycling? Assuming they have access to large and continuing supplies of water (which could be raw sea water for this purpose).

The plant I conceived takes in ALL raw mterials from garbage, shreds, then separates acording to density using water as a vehicle within the process. Water used in the process itself is cheaned to "fresh" and recycled into the environment for agriculture, as are the compost materials from organic waste. On this basis every landfill, thousands of them, are "mines" with valuable raw materials, able to be separated and recycled into useful streams of raw materials for manufacturing and other uses. The are many potential clients, and many more would develop as "tipping points" were reached that saw costs of recovered/recycled materials earn a premium value over those that have to be mined and developed from ever more difficult environments.
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Dirty Dozen: EWG Reveals List Of Pesticide-Heavy Fruits And Veggies

Unfortunately, their watchdog status is influenced by the agriculture industry. As noted in my comment above, the cumulative effect of additives and chemicals, and air and water pollution, have exposed consumers to a totality of diseases and genetic aberrations that make a mockery of purported attempts at transparency in food safety.
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Dirty Dozen: EWG Reveals List Of Pesticide-Heavy Fruits And Veggies

Comprehensive studies, thoroughly vetted for reliability and credibility, would answer the questions raised by this and oher studioies. There is undeniable accumulated evidence, though mostly statistical, that the CUMULATIVE ingestion of chemicals and additives in processed foods, including fruits and vegetables, has contributed, even led to the epidemic of societal health problems, including obesity, chronic disease, autism, cancer and the many other chronic and episodic conditions "enjoyed" by modern society, as a condition of participation.
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George W. Bush Blamed For Economic Troubles More Than Barack Obama, Poll Finds

Your logic seems unassailable. I still offer that Bush, by himself, was only the focus of yours (and some of mine angst); mine based on convincing research showing that repeal of Glass-Stegall, and Mssrs. Frank and Dodd were the perfect storm of opportunity and greed that drove the mess. Obama folowed his idelogy like a wold sniffing prey, and when his legislative efforts are piled on the financial mess, it's no wonder we are in sucxh trouble. Look to the Euro Union and the problems of socialist governments therein for a precursor of what's coming here, unless we change...quickly. A surplus Budget would be a good start.
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George W. Bush Blamed For Economic Troubles More Than Barack Obama, Poll Finds

I'm a conservative, financially speaking, and a pragmatist, socially speaking, and more intetested in free market solutions than ideologic rhetoric. I hold Bush 60% responsible for financial problems (although to be honest, it was the greed, leverage employed and manipulation of the financial system by both Repubs and Democrats that caused the problem) anf Obama 40%.

Actually, it would be better to lay the blame where it truly belongs;the purchase of the House and Senate by special interests, particularly the financial sector.
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Smartphones Bring Hope, Frustration As Substitute For Computers

Our system has encouraged monopolies, both market share and geo-monopolies. The top 3 cable and telcos share over 70% of the ISP and entertainmentmarketplace. When Content is controlled by access and access is limited, there is little or no transparency. Without forced separation of Content and Broadband, too few control access. Why do you think there is no "ala la carte" marketplace for Content? Because "packaging" keeps out new entrants who could bid, in a transparent and competitive marketplace with reasonable access, on "pipeline" capacity, delivered over Internet (wired and wireless) as a "choice." Another thing; New Release movies could be offered on a pay-per-view basis, probably doubling the size of the entertainment industry (as long as they didn't get greedy-a faint hope I'm sure).

The countries ranked ahead of us are learning from our mistakes, broadening the capacity and appeal of Internet for Education, Health Care, Government, job training, and on and on.

We have so much technology opportunity that is being held back by monopolistic pricing and practices that it creates multiple lost opportunities. In just a few years, the Internet will be THE venue or commerce, both in the U.S. and world-wide. Entrepreneurial opportunities of today will magnify, maybe exponentially. The "creative destruction" of the Internet applied to traditional methods of commerce, distribution, Health and Education, will mean tens of millions of new, and different jobs.Part of the U.S. problem is that instead of leading, we're following.
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Smartphones Bring Hope, Frustration As Substitute For Computers

Accessibility for more may be helped by the FCC and FTC getting aound to doing the necessary job of separating Content from Broadband provisioning. The U.S. ranks 16-17th in world Internet rankings of reach and speed. With Convergence AAA (AnyThing, AnyTIme, AnyWhere) becoming more a reality every day, opening up more wireless spectrum and creating more transparency among Cable and Telcos through forced separation of Content and Spectrum just can't wait longer.
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