Archive for November, 2008
Old Cover
All this talk about going green, a big part of saving the environment is to not create more waste that will just end up clogging our land fills. Follow me on this for a minute… There are 10 million spa owners in the USA, and each one of them uses a typical rigid foam spa cover on their hot tub. For the sake of this demonstration each foam cover is only two inches thick and every spa is eight feet by eight feet. That would mean each spa cover contained about 10.666 cubic feet of foam per spa cover. For the rest of this example we will use 10.5 cubic feet per cover.
If each cover on every spa becomes saturated within two years and needs to be replaced that would mean that we would be adding 52.5 million cubic feet of waste to our landfills in just spa covers every year.
If it takes two and a half covers worth of foam to make up one cubic yard that translates to 4 million cubic yards of waste added to our land fills every two years just in spa covers.
If there are 11 million Cubic yards of stone in the Great Pyramid at Giza, we are adding enough foam to build a duplicate of it to our landfills just from used spa covers every six years conservatively. There are four and a half million cubic yards of concrete in Hoover Dam. We could build a two lane highway of discarded foam filled spa covers from Seattle Washington to Miami Florida every two years.
In case you have not noticed most foam filled spa covers are not two inches thick anymore. If all those old foam covers were four inches thick all these calculations would be double.
But we are just being conservative so we want to stick with two inches thick. If we ripped the covers in half and laid those pieces end to end we could circle the earth at the equator on used spa covers every two years.
Heck with parking lots, in a few years we could pave the entire planet with foam just from saturated foam spa covers from the USA alone.
So what is the solution? Well shop for a better spa cover. There are options available on the internet that your local spa dealer probably does not offer. You do not have to quit using your spa to save us. You just need to get a Spa Cover that does not use foam to insulate. There would be two major advantages to doing so. First the spa cover that did not use rigid foam to insulate would last longer. Since what always fails in the typical spa cover is the foam, either breaking or getting so saturated that you cannot lift it, a spa cover that did not use foam would tend to last longer.
Second, if the new type of spa cover does not use rigid foam it will also be a lot more friendly to the environment when it does come time to discard it. Less trash, less waste, less land fill, not that is what going green is all about.
About the Author:
The Author is a business owner with more than twenty years experience. A former Police Sgt, Pilot, Heavy Equipment Operator, Trained Mechanic that has written technical manuals and short stories. An accomplished motorcycle rider he enjoys riding the back roads of Washington on his Harley Davidson, with his wife riding copilot. Please visit SpaCap.com
Spa Covers.
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com – Spa Covers Going Green?
|
|
Germany old cover Haina NUERNBERG 1902 bayern $6.50 |
|
|
3 Old 1940 Sealtest All Star Dairy Soldier Cover F2 $6.00 |
|
|
Single Outlet Plate Cover – Old Wood Faux Finish 2 $5.98 |
|
|
PRIMITIVE COUNTRY OLD GLORY HEART Switch plate Cover $5.99 |
|
|
Old Geezer 2″ hitch receiver/cover $6.99 |
|
|
1958 Indians and the Old West Hard Cover Book $0.99 |
|
|
Old Roses Stethoscope Cover Name Free Nurse Dr EMT $12.59 |
|
|
9 Old c1910s HOLDEN #2 Imperial Book Cover Lot NR $14.99 |
|
|
823A “old school”BMX 20″ Bicycle Wheel Covers (2) $24.99 |
|
|
Old Finnigans Metal-cover Brush Manchester Liverpool $9.99 |
|
|
OLD NAVY Pink White Cover-Up Skirt XS 0/2 NWT $7.99 |
|
|
OLD NAVY Pink White Cover-Up Skirt S 4/6 NWT $7.99 |
|
|
Nine US Stamped Covers Old Airmail Slogan Cancellations $5.95 |
|
|
OLD NAVY Green White Cover-Up Skirt XL 16/18 NWOT $7.99 |
|
|
OLD NAVY Pink Cover-Up Skirt M 8/10 NWT $19.50 $7.99 |
|
|
Noblespirit~USEFUL US Old COVER ACUMULATION!!!!!!!!!!!! $43.60 |
|
|
WESTERN OLD BONANZA Single Light Switch Cover $4.99 |
|
|
ITALY-OLD COVERS LOT-TO ARGENTINA $1.99 |
|
|
Vintage NFL Throw Sheet Blanket Cover Bedding Old Logos $9.99 |
|
|
NOS BMX OLD SCHOOL FLITE SEAT PAD COVER RED BLACK NIP!! $19.99 |
|
|
OLD HEIDELBERG RESTAURANT FS Match Cover ANN ARBOR, MI. $1.50 |
|
|
When Old Ireland is Forgotten 1914 FLIRTY Cover ! CUTE! $11.99 |
|
|
OLD NAVY sz 2T double-layer tank/skirt/diaper cover EUC $2.00 |
|
|
Silicone KeyBoard Cover Skin For Apple MacBook Old 13.3 $3.68 |
|
|
New-Old-Stock Iscaselle Saddle w/Black Suede Cover $34.99 |
|
|
JOHN MIDDLETON’S OLD MARINER PIPE TOBACCO – COVER $3.99 |
|
|
BAY CITY MI Elks Club BPOE Lodge 88 old Matchbook Cover $2.99 |
|
|
Old Glass HUMMINGBIRD NIGHT LIGHT COVER – Sun Catcher $9.99 |
|
|
CENSOR OLD COVER $1.99 |
|
|
JACK DANIELS OLD TENNESSEE WHISKEY LIGHT SWITCH COVER $4.97 |
|
|
PERRY IOWA OLD LETER 1907 WITH 2 CENT STAMP ON COVER $3.99 |
|
|
OLD CAN PEPSI COLA LIGHT SWITCH COVER $4.97 |
|
|
OLD FORD GRANDPA TRACTOR LIGHT SWITCH COVER $4.97 |
|
|
OLD JOHN DEERE TRACTOR IN FIELD LIGHT SWITCH COVER $4.97 |
|
|
ANTIQUE FABRIC PATCH QUILT DOLL BED old pillow cover $9.99 |
|
|
Old Red & Cream Matchbook cover from HARVARD $5.99 |
|
|
OLD Matchbook Cover – Decatur County Elect Ray Walters $6.99 |
|
|
Harley Big twin or sportster Pushrod cover BRASS keeper $39.99 |
|
|
US Keyboard Silicone Cover For MAC BOOK 13.3″ old Y103 $2.85 |
|
|
OLD Matchbook Cover – Cicero Ill Ed Mier Truck Services $4.99 |