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"Zabaleen" is the Arabic term for those visionary and enterprising people whose culture revolves around recycling. The Zabaleen are experts at "transforming one man's garbage into another man's gold" and aspire toward a net zero-waste economy. Applied and supported this could lead to true energy independence, not only by radically reducing our demand for "raw materials" and hard to extract natural resources but by recycling other less obvious phenomena and materials that are now wasted.

Saturday, July 10, 2010

You can try this at home: Working toward the elimination of our plastic waste stream

Thomas Henry Culhane

You can try this at home: Working toward the elimination of our plastic waste stream

Tonight I took some of our plastic grocery bag and plastic wrapper waste and put it in a small coffee can (with a stone for weight) and immersed it in the basket of my new stainless steel electric deep fryer (the kind with a thermostat for making french fries) set to 360 F...

June 8 at 1:32pm ·

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The Zabaleen ethic

There is no such thing as "garbage". Nothing should be wasted. A Zabaleen looks around him or her and asks, "what new use or value can I find in this object, this environment, this moment." The Zabaleen ethic, if properly applied and supported, could lead to true energy independence by making use not only of what we traditionally call "trash" but of other wasted commodities: embedded solar radiation found in light, heat, wind, hydrological cycles, geothermal mass and biomass and from the synergistic behavior of microbes, plants, fungi and non-human animals. We can all be Zabaleen...

Energy Independence

Saturday, July 10, 2010

You can try this at home: Working toward the elimination of our plastic waste stream

Thomas Henry Culhane

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