Newton’s 3 Laws of Motion
I really wish I could skip out on work and go to the state
fair in Sacramento to ride the swings. That way I could experience Newton’s
first law of motion… An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion
stays in motion with the same speed. Hopefully, the swings would not
malfunction by being acted upon by an alternative force.
Our “Energy Efficient” Culture
Living in an area where the general population identifies as
progressive, I often find myself questioning weather or not we actually have
evidence to substantiate this claim. While the city of San Francisco recently
outlawed plastic bags in an effort to protect the environment from the
pollution of carelessly thrown away grocery bags, the city has also seen an exponential increase of cardboard
waste- the result of online delivery companies like amazon. The city’s Recycling program is
somewhat unique in that it is employee owned, educates residents about
recycling and employs hundreds of people to sort the materials. As a result SF states
that is saves 92 percent of its trash from the landfill.
However, a reporter from Bloomberg in 2014 discovered that the
claims were due to “creative and perfectly legal waste accounting.” The article mentions that in SF the
recycling company considers an apple core that ends up in a landfill can be officially
considered recycled. The article states, “One might think of it as "Schrodinger's
trash" (being both landfill and compost at the same time), and
its environmental benefits are worthy of debate.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-07-11/san-francisco-s-recycling-claims-are-garbage
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