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!
Since even the newest pennies still use at least 2.5% copper (mostly as the outer plating over the mostly zinc inner core), and all years except 1943 used at least 95% copper in the making of pennies, 1943 is the only year that no copper was used in the making of U.S. pennies.