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Post# 589455 , Reply# 1   4/14/2012 at 20:24 (4,386 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula)   |   | |
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That's exactly what Mueller is doing not that they finally entered the premium market in Brazil and soon in other countries. Cheaper machines, made simple and built to last. A light by the end of the tunnel. The english version will be working before the end of this month. CLICK HERE TO GO TO thomasortega's LINK |
Post# 589459 , Reply# 2   4/14/2012 at 20:27 (4,386 days old) by thomasortega (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles de Porciúncula)   |   | |
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above, where it's written "...is doing, not that they..." please read "is doing NOW that they..." |
Post# 589701 , Reply# 4   4/15/2012 at 16:53 (4,385 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Post# 589791 , Reply# 6   4/15/2012 at 21:26 (4,385 days old) by logixx (Germany)   |   | |
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Post# 589828 , Reply# 7   4/15/2012 at 23:05 (4,385 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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What is Americans' attitude toward recycling? From fanatical to calculated indifference. Even certain recycling businesses refuse certain recyclables because they are not "convenient" to process. It varies by municipality and servicer. Austin would take newspaper but not phone books, and only HDPE plastics. Dallas will take phonebooks and shipping cardboard but not food or beverage cardboard, food glass but not window glass. This apartment complex puts discarded appliances out and calls a steel guy who comes if he feels like it. If he doesn't come in a week it goes in the dumpster/landfill.
There is no consistency at all. |
Post# 589829 , Reply# 8   4/15/2012 at 23:22 (4,385 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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So its left to state and or local level government.
At the moment due to high prices for metals and a poor economy demand for scrap is very high. Put any appliance out on the curb around here, and within <3 hours it is gone. Certianly by the next morning it would have been hacked to bits for anything that can be recycled. Various times of the year NYC hosts appliance recycle days where one can bring old appliances/electronics,but who has the space to store things for several months. IMHO the USA should take a page from EU countries and mandate appliance/electronics makers provide some sort of recycling at time of purchase. Much the same as bottles carry a deposit here in NYC. To their credit companies such as Dell will send one a shipping label that allows free transport of an old computer to a recycling center when a new unit is purchased, but that sort of thing is few and far between. Being as that may at least in NYC there is a lively private recycle effort. Starting late afternoon and on through the evening you'll see persons on foot, car, truck (even if it is rented) driving around looking for scrap metal and paper. They pick up the boxes and paper put out by businesses for rubbish, and even though such collections of domestic rubbish are illegal, they will take that as well. |
Post# 590093 , Reply# 11   4/16/2012 at 23:28 (4,384 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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It's not "economical" for the earth OR for the customer, to build junk appliances that fall apart in 3yrs average use. No matter what "energy sticker" they have on them. Not even if they put out more energy than they consume (an impossibility of course, but just to make the point).
The US does have fairly strict federal laws for freon. Anyone buying it has to be licensed and a provision of the license is that freon is never deliberately released but must be evacuated and captured. Individual appliance owners can still take their fridge in the yard and use it as a shotgun target (except cities where shotguns are prohibited). But licensed repairers cannot release the gas or their license can be revoked. I don't know if that law applies to recyclers, like say, crushing the appliance for the steel. |
Post# 590969 , Reply# 17   4/20/2012 at 05:57 (4,380 days old) by volsboy1 (East Tenn Smoky mountains )   |   | |
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I have to agree with Arbliab when it comes to this green thing that everybody so wrapped up in it because, if you look at it close it don't wash well.The dishwasher's that you get seem to last about 4 years 5 if your lucky.There used to be dishwasher's that could wash your dishes and dry them is less than an hour.They had larger motors and pushed 64 gallons a min through there arms and used about 13/15 gallons of water but the machine would last 20+ years.Now we have dishwasher's that have these 100 watt motors and will run for 7 hours. Whirlpool resource saver the normal cycle is about 3.5 hours of running but, they have a button on there that says hour wash but they warn you that it uses more power and is not efficient .That overnite cycle it says it's to save on energy but, if you used that wash cycle you would be putting years of more wear on the machine and be buying a new one.I don't get why they put such small motors on them them.The Maytag tall tub the last real Maytag had a 1/3H.P. motor on it but it drew 2.2 Amps that is not bad at all for a 1/3 H.P. induction motor.I have a T.O.L. G.E. out on the porch that is less than 2 years old could never clean right.I now have a new L.G. dishwasher and so far it's great, cleans everything but, the reviews worry me.I also have that new L.G. 31 Cubic foot fridge with the french doors and I love it but,it has a linear compressor and it makes strange noises like a car engine knocking.Is it helping having machines going to the landfill twice as often compared a older machine that uses more water and not a aquarium pump motor on it?I have had emails from smug folks in here because, I wanted a nice old Kitchenaid dishwasher. He was fussing about the water and power use the machine used and then went in to a tantrum because, my family owns a huge farm and our huge trucks use to much gas.I can't say what I said back to him in this section but, most of the words were four letters.We grow soybean and make milk on that farm that is what a farm does,I have no clue why he was so mad about that he eats everything comes from some farm. |
Post# 591129 , Reply# 18   4/21/2012 at 00:22 (4,380 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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