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- Bukowsky, on 04/26/2008, -13/+168Recycle your plastic people! The one's with a 1 or 2 symbol on the side/bottom. Even if you don't believe in "global warming" why wouldn't you want to recycle your empty Milk Carton or 20oz. Soda Bottle? At least to just conserve oil, and help keep gas prices is lower.
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -1/+90Good initiative, but you have some facts wrong. It's not just #'s 1 and 2 that can be recycled, they all can be. Not everywhere accepts the other numbers, but they can be recycled, you just have to do a little leg work to find your local place that takes them all.
Anyway, recycling should be your last step. First you should reduce you consumption. Stop buying plastic water bottles. Just buy a nice reusable plastic bottle or better yet a metal one, and then use a filtration system on your tap. fill your ***** up at home!
The next step after reducing is reusing. All those plastic bags you already have, keep reusing those things, dont just throw them out.
Reduce/Reuse/Recycle - DeskFlyer, on 04/26/2008, -12/+78My Dad thinks it's stupid to recycle because it costs too much. I had to make him aware that recycling is about conserving natural resources, not saving money.
- LazyTurtle, on 04/26/2008, -9/+65We need to stop using plastic and go back to glass. It's reusable and will make me spend less $ at the pump.
- ShugNinx21, on 04/26/2008, -3/+54Cars don't run on crude oil. Crude Oil which is what is pulled from the ground and sold in the barrel is refined and split up into different byproducts for different uses. So out of one barrel of crude a little is split into gasoline, diesel fuel, asphalt base, heating oil, kerosene, liquefied petroleum gas, and other components some of which are used to make plastics. you can't change the ratio and decide to get more gasoline out of the same barrel.
So I fail to see how using the other byproducts of crude oil to make plastics takes fuel away from the market. Other than the fuel they use in shipping costs and production. And if that's the argument then there are plenty of things in the world that aren't needed but fuel is wasted to produce and transport them. You don't create plastics instead of gasoline when refining, you get both from the process. - PHiZ187, on 04/26/2008, -3/+52Man, I hate plastic bags so much. They're all crinkly, and people take them when they purchase something without thinking about it. Every time I see someone take a plastic bag for a single 3 ounce item, I want to scream. Buy and use reusable cloth bags!
Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. (In that order) - screenwalker, on 04/26/2008, -2/+33Still remember the 21st century waterfall - a visualization how few of the plastic bottles in the US are recycled
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZbTXDkrD1o - insllvn, on 04/26/2008, -1/+29Don't recycle, reduce consumption. The man who buys 30 bottles of water a week and recycles them has done more to hurt the environment than the man who buys a Brita water filter and fills his own reusable bottle to bring water with him. It is not our failure to recycle what we use that is ruining the environment, it is our entire culture of consumerism and consumption. Why does every piece of electronics I buy come wrapped and sealed in plastic? Why does my iPod (disclaimer: I have only owned one, that is how long it took for me to get fed up with it) come with no way to replace only the parts that break, no way to replace the battery? So that I will buy the next one, the newer one. Buy only things that will last and value those investments.
- UTKEngineer, on 04/26/2008, -0/+24Exactly why I buried this as inaccurate.
People really need to stop and think. Thanks for putting it succinctly into perspective. - NonLeftistDiggr, on 04/26/2008, -6/+30That's a dirty secret for people who don't know how the world works and get all their scientific knowledge from what politicians do and say.
- tj111, on 04/26/2008, -10/+34Why do you think Marijuana/Hemp was outlawed in the early 20th century? Hemp based plastics were almost twice as durable AND were biodegradable, which proved a huge threat to the oil industries. Also, hemp based paper (which the constitution is written on) can be grown in fields renewed yearly, as opposed to trees which take years to grow. Moral of the story: The oil companies screwed up the world in more ways then is immediately apparent.
- PHiZ187, on 04/26/2008, -4/+26But it requires more oil to transport heavier glass bottles.
- twinklyJesus, on 04/26/2008, -1/+22I carry my drinking water in paper bags.
- chriskzoo, on 04/26/2008, -2/+21I'm not even a hippy and I've stopped drinking store bought water and bring our own canvas bags to the grocery store.
- StanDevia, on 04/26/2008, -1/+18From Snopes:
Claim: Plastic water bottles have been proved to break down into carcinogenic compounds when reused or frozen.
Status: False.
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/petbottles.as ... - jmpeagle, on 04/26/2008, -2/+19america consumes 21 million barrels of oil per day so plastic bags and plastic water make up less than 0.3% of our oil use. Of course it wouldn't hurt to cut back. It's hard to break habit though. My parents have those reusable grocery bags but they rarely ever remember to bring them to the grocery store.
- Rikkochet, on 04/26/2008, -4/+20P&T didn't address the point that the cost of oil is going up, making plastic slowly grow more expensive and adding even more pressure to gas prices.
Recycling isn't about things being cheaper, it's about not wasting everything, which is tragically burned right into the North American psyche more than anywhere in the world. - Rikkochet, on 04/26/2008, -9/+25That's the mentality of the drunk who punched the wall and it hurt his hand, so he's going to get even with that wall by hitting it harder.
- xstarsprinklesx, on 04/26/2008, -1/+16Yeah, because it's such a pain to put something in one bin instead of the other.
- toxicshok, on 04/26/2008, -2/+16I believe thats called SARCASM
- ThinkFr33ly, on 04/26/2008, -2/+16Just to put this in perspective. 230 million barrels of oil is about 11.5 days worth of oil usage per year.... and those stats are just for the United States.
Production of pastic bottles and bags accounts for about 1.5 days worth of oil usage per year. So it accounts for less than 1/2 of 1% of our total oil usage.
We have bigger fish to fry. - masterm1nd, on 04/26/2008, -1/+14Thats not even possible short of living in the woods consuming nothing but nature. Are you by chance on a computer?
- DopplerDuck, on 04/26/2008, -5/+17Glass! Yeah!
- manzoire, on 04/27/2008, -1/+12nobody should drink water bottles. just use a filter on your sink. you will save TONS of money.
- DarkShroud, on 04/27/2008, -2/+13Now you're just being an ass.
- Scheissen, on 04/26/2008, -3/+13I'm going to burst the communist dream and point out that socialist China has outputted more pollution than America the past couple years. In a dystopic society like communism there is no pollution because there is no production. You reactionaries see only the bad parts of capitalism and want to revert back to a socialist hunter-gatherer value system.
- forsight, on 04/26/2008, -13/+23I traveled to Switzerland, and man are they way ahead of the curve. There are recycle bins every few blocks and everybody uses them! I love it! GO SWISS!
p.s I have traveled to 13 countries and Swiss is also the cleanest :) - Atomic05, on 04/26/2008, -1/+10Why would you buy water at the store when you're already paying for it at the tap? If you're really that worried about what's in your water, buy your own filter. It's much cheaper per gallon and you're getting the same damn thing.
- stoperror, on 04/26/2008, -1/+10Wow; that's much easier to quantify than a bunch of numbers. Kind of makes you sick...
- DermDoc, on 04/26/2008, -10/+18Wow. I had no idea.
- elipabst, on 04/27/2008, -0/+8"Recycle? yeah...you know where that goes? China you dip *****"
No it doesn't moron. I worked in a recycling plant near Albany NY for a summer that got its plastics from NY city's recycling program. Worst f*cking job ever (imagine week old spoiled milk in the summer heat) but I can 100% guarantee they weren't just getting shipped to China, because I was the poor schlep sorting them by type. They then got shredded and remolded into beads that were sold to plastic manufacturers. - Schmapdi, on 04/26/2008, -0/+8I got a half dozen nice canvas bags over a year ago, they rock. Its much easier to carry groceries in from the car, and my local supermarket gives me a 5 cent credit each time I check out for using them. Best 6 bucks I've ever spent. They really are a win/win situation all around. Get them and use them!
- inactive, on 04/26/2008, -2/+10So who actually buys bottled water?
Because I've got a new fabric for sale, it's so spectacular only the most elite of the elite can see it... - Rikkochet, on 04/26/2008, -3/+11I just carry around a goat's stomach with a stopper in the top and drink out of that. Everyone should do it.
- paulmer2003, on 04/26/2008, -3/+11You sir, are a moron. Have you been to Europe? We have cleaner air then they do. Why? Because of legislation for things such as catalytic converters and the like. We may indeed consume a ***** of a oil, but we still have cleaner air than a lot of places.
- RyanBlack, on 04/26/2008, -5/+13Water bottles, ***** YEAH
- jmpeagle, on 04/26/2008, -0/+7you can turn any hydrocarbon into gasoline. It's just really expensive and really polluting.
- 3tcp, on 04/27/2008, -0/+7I came here to say exactly this. Oil produces a lot of things and the demand for oil is primarily driven by the demand for gasoline. Plastic is cheap because we would refine oil for gasoline regardless of the price or demand for plastics. The world has way more petroleum jelly than it wants for the same reason, it's a leftover from the refining process.
1000 plastic bottles doesn't represent stuff that could have been used to run your car. The author seems to have been so busy collecting stats that he forgot to make sure he knew wtf he was talking about. - pastevensonjr, on 04/26/2008, -0/+7Product Percent of Total
Finished Motor Gasoline 51.4%
Distillate Fuel Oil 15.3%
Jet Fuel 12.3%
Still Gas 5.4%
Marketable Coke 5.0%
Residual Fuel Oil 3.3%
Liquefied Refinery Gas 2.8%
Asphalt and Road Oil 1.7%
Other Refined Products 1.5%
Lubricants 0.9% - pjf00, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8just like cell phones caused cancer?
- daschupa, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8The situation is even worse, I heard they use plastic bottles in other countries besides America too. [citation needed]
- buddypriefert, on 04/26/2008, -0/+7Stuff them in a drawer like we do and reuse them when we go off to the grocery store again. Sounds dumb, but 10 or so these little bags wad up into a tennis ball size and last several times over.
- chalkboy, on 04/26/2008, -0/+7I did not know that. Thanks!
- forsight, on 04/26/2008, -1/+8half of the water in bottles is worse for you than drinking from the tap
- InsanePervert, on 04/27/2008, -0/+6Better make sure that you are using a newer Nalgene bottle free of "Bisphenol-A", especially if you are putting it in the dishwasher. See http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/
- PopASquatt, on 04/27/2008, -2/+8The province of Prince Edward Island up here in Canada have been using glass as a replacement to plastic for years. I always found this strange when I was a boy seeing that I was not from P.E.I., but I soon became aware of the impact that plastics have on our resources. We need to begin using paper bags and glass bottles again!
- bdbr, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7We have canvas bags that we bought in 1991, and we're still using them. They last a very long time.
- inactive, on 04/27/2008, -1/+7Im going to hire an Ethinopian to carry my water home on her head.
- inactive, on 04/27/2008, -3/+9Somebody has been using a little too much hemp.
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