[Community_garden] on the topic of sustainability

[dandelion]

check out this beautiful scematic for reducing waste:

http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2008/st_wastestream


wired magazine: issue 16.04
Garbage In, Garden Out: Inside the High Tech Trash Disassembly Line
By Sonia Zjawinski Email 3.24.08 | 6:00 PM


Of course we know that enlightened readers such as yourself separate
your paper, plastic, and glass. But someone out there sure doesn't —
more than 63 million tons of US recyclables end up in landfills every
year. Global Renewables might be able to shrink that number. The
Australia-based company built a facility in Sydney that combines every
trash-sorting technology imaginable — wind sifters, optical scanners,
magnets, electrical currents. It diverts 75 percent of the city's
waste stream to recycling, conserving landfill space and cutting down
on greenhouse gases. Rotting garbage gives off methane, so less
landfill equals less climatic apocalypse. On the strength of its
Sydney plant, Global Renewables just got $627 million to construct two
similar facilities in the UK. Here's how they separate the treasure
from the trash.