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- "The plastic heads straight to landfills, where it stays for years and years and years."
So what? that's what the dump is FOR- bury your trash, so it stays in a hole in the ground forever- BFD! - Reply to this comment
- I just can't imagine my printer and laptop made of wood!
Anyway...
Perhaps, if our congress weren't so bought by various interest groups...
...hemp would actually be widely used as a raw material for manufacturing!
The future is HEMP for manufacturing! Europeans, once again, are decades ahead of us on this issue as well. - Reply to this comment
- For a more comprehensive story on the problems with plastic, check out this Best Life Magazine online article:
http://www.bestlifeonline.com/cms/publish/travel-leisure/Our_oceans_are_turning_into_plastic_are_we.shtml
Or, enter into your search engine the name of the article:
"Our oceans are turning into plastic. Are we?"
The picture of the sea turtle on that web page says it all. - Reply to this comment
- Sorry the 2nd half of my post below went in twice!
"The White House is full of trash that needs to be thrown out. Not much recycling value though." Posted by long_rider at 11:27 AM : Jun 24, 2007
long_rider, that's a good one!
Although I envision BushWhacked making a lovely table lamp, book end or door stop. I do press flowers for crafts. He's make a good dead weight! - Reply to this comment
"So what do individuals put their garbage in then if not plastic bags? Anybody have suggestions for something that is liquid proof and can be sealed tight?" Posted by ginetta11 at 03:03 PM : Jun 24, 2007
The biggest question each of us needs to ask ourselves is: What is it I'm actually considering "garbage"?
I have a juicer to make my own fresh juices every day. No need for all them plastic bottles. I carry the juice in my reusable glass jars. The pulp from the juicing process isn't garbage- it goes right into the compost for the garden where I grow all my own vegetables so I don't need to buy the plastic wrapped or canned at the store (then I freeze them). Don't buy pre made foods at all- everything from scratch- much healthier, tastes better, so much cheaper!
The parts of the food that one doesn't eat is still part of the food that was a gift from the earth. How can we call the peelings of a potato "garbage" when it was part of something that gave us life? (cont)- Reply to this comment
- Newspaper cleans glass, office paper & such gets reused for scratch paper- then it all goes to recycling. Cloth napkins & towels. I bring my own canvas bags for shopping. I create a lot of arts & crafts from many things that others consider trash. Then at craft fairs I sell those SAME pieces of trash BACK to people who threw the stuff out in the first place!
The amount of trash this 3 person family generates per week barely fills a small cardboard carton. I take them from stores that are throwing them out & I use them to put my trash in. No plastic bags!
With a lot of heavy thinking about our personal impact on the planet, a bit of ingenuity & self sacrifice we could all turn this problem around.
We do not need plastic bags for trash. Think about what people did before the advent of plastic bags! - Reply to this comment
- Newspaper cleans glass, office paper & such gets reused for scratch paper- then it all goes to recycling. Cloth napkins & towels. I bring my own canvas bags for shopping. I create a lot of arts & crafts from many things that others consider trash. Then at craft fairs I sell those SAME pieces of trash BACK to people who threw the stuff out in the first place!
The amount of trash this 3 person family generates per week barely fills a small cardboard carton. I take them from stores that are throwing them out & I use them to put my trash in. No plastic bags!
With a lot of heavy thinking about our personal impact on the planet, a bit of ingenuity & self sacrifice we could all turn this problem around.
We do not need plastic bags for trash. Think about what people did before the advent of plastic bags! - Reply to this comment
- Typo:
Investing the bag snagger...
Correction:
Inventing the bag snagger... - Reply to this comment
- We need more stories like this. And, we all need a kick in the pants.
We're American's you have to tell us a few hundred times before it sinks in.
Keep it up, CBS. - Reply to this comment
- So what do individuals put their garbage in then if not plastic bags? Anybody have suggestions for something that is liquid proof and can be sealed tight?
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