I was asked recently to write a short essay on environmentalism to be published in a book on âKey Concepts in Critical Management Studiesâ to be published by Sage later in 2010. I hope itâs useful for those who want a little bit of history and critical understanding of environmentalist as a concept and a movement.
Hand sorting the 1982 Copper from the Zinc pennies. 1982 was the transition year for the US Mint to stop making pennies from copper and switch to zinc. There... Hand sorting the 1982 Copper from the Zinc pennies. 1982 was the transition year for the US Mint to stop making pennies from copper and switch to zinc. There are sorting machines that can be purchased to do this work, but if you dont have a machine, your ears can do the job!
Production costs for the four main U.S. coins went down in fiscal year 2014, but the penny is still costing American taxpayers more to make than itâs actually worth, according to the U.S. Treasuryâs December report to Congress. Producing one dollar in pennies costs the U.S. Treasury $1.66. Manufacturing a nickel also costs more than its face value, at $1.62 for every dollar of nickels funneled into the economy. As of 2013, the Treasury was incurring an annual deficit of about $105 million dollars on penny and nickel production.