How to...

Days are mostly taken up with revision for my Recycling, Sustainability and Environmental Issues exam on Monday, which has been a mammoth undertaking, encompassing a wide variety of topics from nuclear power station design, to "How to Make Your Own Environmentally Friendly Landfill Site" (see below for your easy to follow step by step)

Most of the material is really quite interesting with nuggets of information that would be great for pub quizzes...
"what is scrap glass called?" (Cullet);
"when shredding cars, the 20% of unrecyclable materials left over is known as what?" (Fluff)
"what percentage of crude oil is used for the production of polymer based materials?" (4%)

However there is a lot of harder stuff, and I haven't even finished reading through the material, and I've not even touched any past papers...only 1 1/2 days to go...I get the feeling there will be a lot of blagging and crossed fingers...mind you last materials exam I took, I got 87%...they love me at IPTME (Institute of Polymer Technology and Materials Engineering)...

"How to Make Your Own Environmentally Friendly Landfill Site"

1. Find a large hole in the ground (preferably 1/4 mile x 1/4 mile x 1/4 mile, however a 7inch cake tin will suffice)

2. Line with sand

3. Line with neoprene sheeting (for catching horrible toxic metals from being absorbed into your cake tin)

4. Line with rubber sheeting to prevent puncture

5. Lay collection pipes over sheeting (to collect those pesky chemicals)

6. Install a pumphouse for processing of waste gases and water (a small matchbox will do for the cake tin model)

7. Start filling with all your junk (or a cake mix)

8. Intersperse with more piping and compress with bulldozers (or a rolling pin) to remove methane gas pockets

9. When full, cover with rubber sheeting, and topsoil (chocolate icing will do)

10. Allow to degrade for 6-10 years (or bake for 30 minutes for the cake tin version)

11. Compact again

12. Build a housing estate on top and power with the methane given off (or just eat it...)

Easy when you know how :)


**yes I'm mad**