LOL. That ozone hole was mine! That post actually brought back a 30 year old memory. Recharging the AC on a trailways bus after another tech had "fixed" it. System pulled and held a vaccuum OK so I started charging it. I didn't notice the condenser fan belt was missing. I found out though after charging it with about 50 pounds of R-12 and the blow-off valve went off. You literally could not see the bus because of the freon cloud. Oops.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/06/010619074209.htm https://www.epa.gov/sites/productio...c_refrigerants_to_protect_the_ozone_layer.pdf http://www.trane.com/commercial/uploads/pdf/cso/138/Refrigerants.pdf http://www.galxc.co.uk/service-maintenance/hcfc-refrigerant-replacement/ Not so very dangerous, eh Joe?
Oh, f**k!!!!! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-39001011 Plastic 'nurdles' found littering UK beaches A search of 279 beaches around the UK has found that almost three-quarters of them were littered with tiny plastic "nurdles". Volunteers signed up to search their local shoreline, ranging between Shetland and the Scilly Isles, for the lentil-sized pellets, used as a raw material to make plastic products. They can cause damage to such wildlife as birds and fish, which eat them. The findings will be reflected in a government study into microplastics. What's the problem? Campaigners estimate that up to 53 billion of the tiny pellets escape into the UK's environment each year. This happens during the manufacture, transport or use of plastic products. The nurdles are often spilt accidentally into rivers and oceans or fall into drains where they are washed out to sea. Experts warn nurdles can soak up chemical pollutants from their surroundings and then release toxins into the animals that eat them. The Great Winter Nurdle Hunt survey was carried out by 600 volunteers over a weekend in early February. The largest number recorded were found at Widemouth Bay, Cornwall, where 33 volunteers collected some 127,500 pellets found on a 100-metre stretch of beach. But there were some beach hunts that yielded no nurdles at all, including Spurn Point in Yorkshire and Sully beach in south Wales. Nurdles are one of the main sources of "primary microplastics" - small pieces of plastic which have come from larger items broken down into little bits - in European seas. The Great Winter Nurdle Hunt 53 billion nurdles estimated to escape into the UK environment each year 230,000 tonnes estimated to be entering the ocean in Europe annually 73% of 279 shorelines surveyed had plastic pellets on them 127,500 nurdles were found on one 100m-stretch of beach in Cornwall Source: The Great Winter Nurdle Hunt survey, 2017 Have you found nurdles or other interesting rubbish on a beach near you? Send your pictures and comments to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk What can be done? Madeleine Berg of Fidra, a Scottish environmental charity which organised the hunt, said it showed action was needed. "Simple precautionary measures can help spillages and ensure nurdles don't end up in our environment," she said. "We are asking the UK government to ensure best practice is in place along the full plastic supply chain, and any further nurdle pollution is stopped." One of the companies that has signed up to Fidra's Operation Clean Sweep is Scottish hauliers, John Mitchell, who distribute plastic pellets. Each of their transporters are fitted with spill kits and black bin bags to collect spilled pellets, which are then recycled. Plastic oceans: What do we know? The beaches where Lego washes up Another step in wider 'war on plastic' The findings come after another campaign by Fidra, which saw Johnson & Johnson announce that their cotton buds will no longer have plastic stems. As of this week, the multinational company will change their buds from plastic to paper in almost half the world's countries, including the whole of Europe, in an attempt to cut marine pollution. Plastic stems are one of the most common items of litter found on UK beaches. They end up in our oceans after the cotton buds - which are not supposed to be flushed down the toilet - enter the sewage system. Waitrose, John Lewis, Marks and Spencer and the Body Shop are among the brands already selling non-plastic cotton buds. A further 10 retailers including Tesco, Boots and Mothercare have said they will change from plastic to paper stems by the end of 2017. Have you seen nurdles or other rubbish items on a beach near you? Are you a beachcomber with pictures of nurdles or unusual items that you have found? Send your pictures and comments to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk Or you can contact us in the following ways: WhatsApp: +44 (0)7525 900971
@gorski: That same thing happens with pharmaceuticals being flushed down the toilet. Water treatment plants are not equipped to remove them from our water. So, you end up getting dosed with some other persons meds. Industrialized farms do the same thing. Their runoff ends up in the water supply, and the effects are terrible on waterways all around the globe.
This is strange, I just went on google maps to look at my teen age years stomping and hunting grounds and those maps have been updated. The strange part is that in the last maps ( all the way back to the beginning of Google maps ) you could see where the springs were leeching the minerals out of the ground in large bands, which was especially noticeable in the fields. "Today's" view of the entire area looks a whole lot drier, healthier and there are NO bands, yet the "river" levels seem about the same. ( I am referring to about 50 square miles of nothing west of the Elmira, NY area )
R29k posted a link in the chat box about soft drinks and their effects. A must read http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2016/04/13/us-soda-consumption-sales-decline.aspx Thanks R29k.
Would you just look at that and weep your heart out: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/...lution-smog-your-stories-life-polluted-cities No, nothing to do with us, Gov, say the "independent" scientist, who "understand the industry's woes"....
gawd im glad I live on the sunshine coast we put our local dam in exactly the right place: up on top of a mountain in a natural hollow with no farms/industry/anything around it - because its up on top of a mountain and seriously inconvenient to build anything up there so thats where baroon pocket was shoved seriously you can go up there without any water bottled or otherwise head out on your boat/jetski*/hyperspace-capable starship^ - or even just flop your deckchair at the waters edge - with a glass in your hand when you get thirsty just dunk your glass in and drink it on the spot - its that good edit - further much of the sunny coast is "new" - that is its only been built recently with shiny new water pipes etc - no 60 year old mains pipes, with half a century of crud rust and other horrors in them * permit required ^ breakthrough in the science of space travel required
I take a sample from my well water to a local licensed state certified laboratory once a year. They check & compare my geographical location from their database to others in my area that have been tested and use that as a guide to which of over 100 contaminants they should test for. The more contaminants they include to test for, the higher the co$t. My water is tasteless, odorless, leaves no stains on plumbing and scores above average in the analysis report. Some included contaminants tested in my sample - pesticides , lead ,arsenic, radon, uranium coliform bacteria, nitrates, sulphate, sodium, chloride, fluoride, pH, iron, fertilizers ,manganese, total dissolved solids, arsenic, hardness...etc
Yep, I know my drinking water, it's why I always buy the 2 1/2 gallon poland springs water. It's all I will drink as water goes when I am at home. Even the taste of tap water is bad in my eyes.... If I run out of my poland springs, I will drink other things and wont touch the water. Been doing this for over 20 years now...