The only plastic objects that can not now be recycled are heavily contaminated items, such as paint pots and plastic products, such as carrier bags, coal sacks, and clear material used to seal food containers.

BBC: Guernsey States introduces more plastic recycling

Only heavily contaminated containers, such as paint pots, can not be recycled.

BBC: Longue Hougue recycling site

UMaine has filed a provisional patent for the lobster-shell mixture, which can also be used for such products as plant pots that decompose in the ground, surveying stakes and other applications.

FORBES: Lobster Golf Balls to Revive Ship Driving Ranges

We read of comments by the predictable crack pots, such as Alex Jones and Erik Rush, and by the usual suspects of incitement, from Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer and Glenn Beck to Laura Ingraham, Steve Emerson and the always bizarrely quotable Dana Rohrhacher.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: A Campaign of Willful Blindness on Terrorism

However she was less concerned about "pots of money" such as the achievement fund, than she was about the "real problem of core funding" for colleges, which she said was not rising with inflation.

BBC: Colleges dispute cash rewards

The big pots of mandatory spending include such politically sensitive programs as Medicare, welfare and Medicaid.

CNN: By Andrew Taylor, CQ Staff Writer