Recycling
Recycling  
Podcast: SciShow Tangents
Published On: Tue Apr 19 2022
Description: Get a jump start on Earth Day by joining us as we discuss garbage's sexy, complicated little brother: recycling! Grab the NordVPN deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/TANGENTSTry it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!Head to https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen[Trivia Question]Minnesota paper waste ballhttps://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0[Fact Off]Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchmenthttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170988https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-014-0481-7Pressure-sensitive, reusable tape inspired by housefly feethttps://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-is-adhesive-tape-made/https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/biomechanics/172099/shoe-flyhttps://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i42/Adhesive-Tape.html[Ask the Science Couch]Sevier County (Dollywood and Gatlinburg) composting/waste managementhttps://www.seviersolidwaste.com/http://www.louisianaweekly.com/dollywoods-environmental-solution/https://www.zankerrecycling.com/sites/default/files/biocycle-nov-2010.pdfhttps://www.biocycle.net/mixed-waste-composting-facilities-review-2/https://greenblue.org/reloop-what-is-mixed-waste-processing-or-all-in-onedirty-mrf-recycling/http://compost.css.cornell.edu/MSWFactSheets/msw.fs6.html[Butt One More Thing]Iron nutrient recycling through whale poophttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00356.x/abstracthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16370118