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07-30-2002, 10:52 AM | #1 |
Radical Centrist
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7/30/2002: Chinese recycling
This gent in Shanghai has collected plastic bottles for recycling and has worked out a way to transport them to the recycling depot. For his efforts, he'll get 0.08 yen for every 2.2 pounds of material: that's $0.01. Now, can someone more enterprising than me - or somewhat less enterprising than this guy - work out exactly how much his bundles are worth. |
07-30-2002, 01:36 PM | #2 |
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Remember that shot of the Chinese dust storm? I sure hope this poor fellow doesn't get any stiff gusts. That doesn't look like the most secure load.
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07-30-2002, 02:06 PM | #3 | |
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08-01-2002, 04:01 PM | #4 |
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I was just looking at MSNBC's pic's of the week and came across this one. Another kind of fishing An Indonesian scavenger rows his makeshift raft to collect plastic amidst a pile of garbage clogging a Jakarta river July 24. The man can earn $1.60 a day to support his family. |
08-02-2002, 01:35 PM | #5 |
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yen eh?
...any particular reason a man in shanghai would be paid in YEN.....?
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08-02-2002, 01:37 PM | #6 |
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Naw, I must have messed that up. Was it yuen?
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08-02-2002, 01:41 PM | #7 |
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yuAn
i assume it would be yuan he was getting paid in.....but 0.08 Yuan works out to roughly $0.009 per 2.2 lbs.....which seems preposterously low to me.....
incidently i move to shanghai in a week.....hurraY! |
08-22-2002, 06:44 PM | #8 |
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around the world
i just moved to shanghai.
hurraY! i have been here for a week now. hopefully pix to come and stories and whatnot. |
08-22-2002, 10:49 PM | #9 |
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What will you be doing in Shanghai? New job?
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08-22-2002, 10:58 PM | #10 |
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carpet designer
i am actually doing an internship through the cdn govt.
i am a graphic designer in the production section of a carpet company. very wacky. my degree is in marine biology. i had a photography company in vancouver. so clearly carpet design is right up my alley. started on monday and so far so good. and i saw a guy on a bike with tons of bottles just the other day. . . |
08-23-2002, 09:28 AM | #11 |
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How does one go about designing carpet?
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08-23-2002, 10:46 AM | #12 |
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From what I gather ...
you take a fish ... I mean, you take a picture of a fish ... and then you ... |
08-26-2002, 06:43 PM | #13 |
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complex machinations.
so.
how does one design a carpet you ask.....? well....i could get into all of the nitty gritty level loop tip shear heat set solution dyed machinations of it, but these are really buzz words that i have no idea what they mean. from what i can gather you design your pattern's looks in photoshop then fire it into this proprietary dutch program that simulates the pattern in 3D. from there it goes into this mock-up carpet machine that actually produces the carpet itself. but instead of the whole process it just punches the nylon yarn through an acetate-like material, and voila - you have a demo carpet to look at to see if it is actually roughly how you designed it. i could even put a picture of say, uh, myself on a carpet. i will post a pic if that ever happens. . . |
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