Today is day 319 of the Gregorian Calendar year, Prickle-Prickle, The Aftermath 27, 3187 YOLD And let us not forget 13.0.9.0.11 mlc (the Mayan Long Count) *****
America The USA does NOT recycle to any appreciable degree, Some locales and venues collect, facilitate, or permit the collection by some of recyclable materials from those choosing to turn them in. That is not recycling. It is trash and garbage collection. Recycling involves taking the collected recyclable materials and at least re-using or re-purposing them, though it is more broadly accepted as processing those materials into raw materials or feedstock for the manufacture of other useful materials and goods. We do astonishingly little of that. In 2018, we actually, arguably, recycled 69.1 million tons of the 292.4 million tons of "municipal solid waste" we generated, less than 25%. However, the denominator, municipal solid waste, doesn't include a lot of thing. Building, construction and demolition waste and debris, industrial waste incinerated on site. Toxic waste and hazmat of all kinds, liquids of all kinds, the enormous amount of trash and litter scattered along roads and in empty areas, all the crap dumped in streams and rivers, sludge from municipal sewerage treatment, and much more. The numbers are from the EPA, and it isn't perfectly clear that "recycled" means recycled versus merely collected and segregated, but I will assume that it does. Want to see just how real our recycling is? Play "Where's Waldo". How many made in US products are 100% made from recycled materials? How many can you name just sitting there. How about 50%? How would you find out?
On this day in history:
1532 – Hernando de Soto and some conquistadors met Atahualpa and and arranged for a formal meeting the next day, where they ambushed and captured him 1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrived in Cuzco, 1777 – The Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation. 1864 – William Tecumseh Sherman began Sherman's March to the Sea. 1889 – Brazil was declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca following a coup 1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva, Switzerland. 1922 – At least 300 were massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador 1926 – The NBC radio network opened with 24 stations. 1933 – Thailand held its first election. 1943 – Heinrich Himmler ordered that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". 1955 – The first part of the Saint Petersburg Metro opened. 1966 – Gemini 12 completed the program's final mission 1967 – Michael J. Adams lost control of his X-15 which broke up mid-air 1969 – The Soviet sub K-19 collided with the US sub Gato in the Barents Sea. 1969 – 250,000-500,000 protesters demonstrated in Washington, D.C. against the Vietnam war 1971 – Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. 1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois took power in Quebec 1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement was signed 1987 – Romanian workers rebelled against the Ceau?escu government . 1988 – The unmanned Soviet Shuttle Buran made its only space flight. 1988 – An independent State of Palestine was declared by the Palestinian National Council. 1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands. 2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide. 2016 – Hong Kong's High Court banned elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city's Parliament
Born this day in:
It is more important to have self-respect than to gain respect from others.
~~ Madeleine de Scudéry 1511 – Johannes Secundus, poet and author 1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry, author 1661 – Christoph von Graffenried, colonist and author 1738 – William Herschel, astronomer and composer 1757 – Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher, surgeon, botanist, and academic 1776 – José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, journalist and author 1849 – Mary E. Byrd, astronomer and educator 1862 – Gerhart Hauptmann, novelist, poet, and playwright 1868 – Emil Racovi?a, biologist, zoologist, and explorer 1873 – Sara Josephine Baker, physician and academic 1874 – August Krogh, zoologist and physiologist, 1881 – Franklin Pierce Adams, journalist and author 1886 – René Guénon, philosopher and author 1887 – Marianne Moore, poet, critic, and translator 1887 – Georgia O'Keeffe, painter and educator 1888 – Artie Matthews, pianist and composer 1890 – Richmal Crompton, author and educator 1905 – Mantovani, conductor and composer 1908 – Carlo Abarth, engineer and businessman who founded Abarth 1916 – Nita Barrow, nurse and politician 1928 – C. W. McCall, singer, songwriter, and politician 1928 – Seldon Powell, saxophonist and flute player 1929 – Joe Hinton, singer 1930 – J. G. Ballard, novelist, short story writer, and essayist 1932 – Petula Clark, singer, songwriter, and actress 1932 – Clyde McPhatter, singer 1934 – Peter Dickinson, pianist and composer 1936 – Wolf Biermann, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1937 – Little Willie John, singer and songwriter 1940 – Hank Wangford, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and physician 1941 – Rick Kemp, singer, songwriter, bass player, and producer 1945 – Anni-Frid Lyngstad, singer 1953 – Alexander O'Neal, singer, songwriter, and arranger 1954 – Randy Thomas, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1954 – Tony Thompson, drummer 1955 – Joe Leeway, singer, songwriter, and percussionist 1956 – Michael Hampton, guitarist and producer 1957 – Kevin Eubanks, Auitarist and composer 1967 – Cynthia Breazeal, computer scientist, roboticist, and academic 1968 – Jennifer Charles, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1970 – Jack Ingram, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1974 – Chad Kroeger, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1980 – Ace Young, singer, songwriter, and actor 1986 – Jerry Roush, singer and songwriter 1989 – Jonalyn Viray, singer 1992 – Minami Minegishi, singer
Died this day in:
“Just as reflection disappears to the extent that thought and action take the form of automatic habits, it awakes only when accepted habits become disorganized.”
~~ Émile Durkheim 165 BCE – Mattathias, resistance leader 1280 – Albertus Magnus, bishop, theologian, and philosopher 1630 – Johannes Kepler, astronomer and mathematician 1670 – John Amos Comenius, bishop, philosopher, and educator 1691 – Aelbert Cuyp, painter 1787 – Christoph Willibald Gluck, composer ( 1916 – Henryk Sienkiewicz, journalist and author 1917 – Émile Durkheim, sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher 1919 – Alfred Werner, chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1945 – Frank Chapman, ornithologist and photographer 1951 – Frank Weston Benson, painter and educator 1956 – Emma Richter, paleontologist 1959 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, physicist and meteorologist 1961 – Johanna Westerdijk, pathologist and academic 1976 – Jean Gabin, actor, singer, and producer 1978 – Margaret Mead, anthropologist and author 1983 – John Grimaldi, keyboard player and songwriter 1985 – Méret Oppenheim, painter, photographer, and poet 1994 – Elizabeth George Speare, author 1998 – Stokely Carmichael, activist 2003 – Speedy West,guitarist and producer 2008 – Grace Hartigan, painter 2012 – Frode Thingnæs, trombonist, composer, and conductor 2016 – Mose Allison, pianist and songwriter
Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: America Recycles Day (United States) Day of the Imprisoned Writer (International observance) Little Red Wagon Day National Bundt Day National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
Music goes here, iirc, well, With apologies ;-)
Seldon Powell
Joe Hinton
Petula Clark
Clyde McPhatter
Little Willie John
Anni-Frid Lyngstad
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
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