I think people missed the numbers in this post...
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Posted On: 01/14/2013 10:08:52 PM
Re: techisbest #3274
I think people missed the numbers in this post...
http://investorshangout.com/post/467887/I-m-n...ou-guys-bu
I usually think in terms of millions of lbs when talking on this scale and wasn't able to make the conversion from tons to millions of pounds on the fly during the press conference. But I just did it: 2800 tons = 5.6 million lbs. This number is not too different from guestimates that I've made in the past and that I would still stand by it as in the ballpark.
However, I don't know if Karen's numbers for cows include beef cattle as well as dairy and don't know if dairy includes young stock as well as milk cows. These details would of course change the numbers. (As would many other factors that I won't detail here.)
As Karen also said during the press conference, her numbers do not include discards from horticulture. I have no good numbers on horticultural waste, so typically pull a best guess from thin air and say that about as much plastic is discarded from horticulture as from dairy. This would bring the NYS annual discards up to 11.2 million lbs, which = 5600 tons. The horticultural numbers are most significant in the south, particularly Florida and California, which together use 80% of the total in the US
http://investorshangout.com/post/467887/I-m-n...ou-guys-bu
I usually think in terms of millions of lbs when talking on this scale and wasn't able to make the conversion from tons to millions of pounds on the fly during the press conference. But I just did it: 2800 tons = 5.6 million lbs. This number is not too different from guestimates that I've made in the past and that I would still stand by it as in the ballpark.
However, I don't know if Karen's numbers for cows include beef cattle as well as dairy and don't know if dairy includes young stock as well as milk cows. These details would of course change the numbers. (As would many other factors that I won't detail here.)
As Karen also said during the press conference, her numbers do not include discards from horticulture. I have no good numbers on horticultural waste, so typically pull a best guess from thin air and say that about as much plastic is discarded from horticulture as from dairy. This would bring the NYS annual discards up to 11.2 million lbs, which = 5600 tons. The horticultural numbers are most significant in the south, particularly Florida and California, which together use 80% of the total in the US
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