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- sheagunther42, on 08/06/2008, -0/+7I've been trying to be super aware of all the plastic I run through. It's amazing how much you can cut down just by asking yourself "Do I really need this?" before buying that bottled water or plastic wrapped bundle of bananas.
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+5Enter a dozen entitlement crazy, right-leaning diggers who now feel attacked in their spoiled-rotten overconsuming lifestyles, and vow to use TEN TIMES AS MUCH PLASTIC. Because they CAN. Because it's their CIVIL RIGHT.
- MattFromSeattle, on 08/06/2008, -0/+4Great article! I try to be mindful of the amount of plastic in my life (as I type on a plastic keyboard) but it is nearly impossible to eliminate it. It can be so overwhelming that you want to just give up, but this is something that if consumers demand a change, we can get it.
- megadan76, on 08/06/2008, -1/+4It's amazing how stupid we were (and are) in the supposed prime of human civilization.
I'm sure they'll look back on us in 100 years and laugh like we laugh at our primitive, heroin drinking ancestors. - inactive, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3Plastic was never the problem so much as no one bothered to develop a way to get rid of it efficiently during the last 40 years.
- Hidama, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Plastic eating bacteria FTW.
- radiofrequency, on 08/08/2008, -0/+3Indeed, I thought the environmentalist justification for plastic bags at the grocery stores (was it in the 80s? 90s?) was to //save trees// by eliminating paper bags.
- fdiskit, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2Oh yeah? Just for that I'm gonna go buy TWO MORE plastic guns! None of that earth-friendly ceramic crap for me, nossir. Because owning a Hello Kitty AR-15 is my God Given Right.
- aolshove, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2Eh, plastic is 80% recyclable and many forms can be synthesized from renewable resources these days. Your computer utilizes many different types of plastics so where would you be if you refused to use plastic? You couldn't read Digg and bury my comments without plastic. Don't cut plastic out of your lives, recycle, recycle, recycle.
- vizel, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2Cocaine is not an opiate.
- lonesomewolf, on 08/07/2008, -0/+2You are one bitter dude. Get laid, have a latte and tell me about it on twitter.
- inactive, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1No *****, hope these hippies don't plan on buying any kind of transportation. Even bicycles have plastic.
- SteveMTyler, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1its not really gone.
I bet in the near future we start mining old landfills for recyclables. - inactive, on 08/08/2008, -0/+1Thumbs up cause you made me laugh.
Im actually not bitter - I have a great life. I just think hippies are pathetic. And they smell like *****. - monsterette, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1hmmm...maybe reward people for bringing in loads of plastic into designated areas to be recycled...reward, well... could be discounts in department or grocery stores...just a thought, probably already being done...
- blatantninja, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1It's really annoying how little plastic is accepted for recycling. I live in NYC where recycling is mandatory, but upon closer inspection, virtually NO plastic is accepted. 1's and 2's are accepted, but ONLY if they are bottles where the mouth is narrower than the body. So yogurt cups, delivery bags, fast food containers, etc. that have 1's and 2's STILL can't be recycled, and of course neither can anything that is 3 or higher. I get that it might not be cost efficient to do so, but I wish we'd either pour more money into making it efficient, or start outlawing anything that can't be recycled.
- Leprince, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1"The only way to preserve the environment is to give up our lifestyle"
Not at all. Change a lightbulb, inflate your tires properly, drive intelligently, buy in bulk...
Many ways to sustain your lifestyle AND preserving resources.
Without the environment in which you live, you can't have any lifestyle.
"I say keep living life to the fullest until it ends.
I'm a hedonist and damn proud of it."
Then I hope you run out of things to consume pretty soon. - cornerback42, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1A space elevator taking it to space and something flinging it to the nearest black hole (or the sun) could work.
- n1eb, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1You can have my LEGO when you pry them from my cold dead fingers.
- psdabfm, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1the liberal motto: don't pollute, you'll destroy the earth that our aborted children would have populated.
- CookieCutter, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1according to The Law of Conservation of Energy... no.
- roddack, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese -Mr Burns
- donna1234, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1http://www.alobre.info
http://www.mad4.info - OC73, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Support the environment. Use plastic.
- iamchewy, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Pot, meet kettle.
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0115926/drugs/Bayer ... - horatiolust, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Remember to tell your surgeon - if you should ever need one - that you don't want any plastic products inserted into your body to remedy a serious situation.
- scoottie, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0its not that i cant get plastic out of my life, its that i dont care to.
- elfprince13, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0which is why neither should be in a landfill. glass at least can be melted and reshaped into something else without emitting noxious gases. try doing that with PVC or Polystyrene. all 3 can be melted in your microwave. only one of those 3 can be melted in the microwave without causing permanent lung damage.
- brianbennett, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Plastic is ubiquitous because plastic is awesome. This guy is just an ignorant, self-important moron.
- diggydougie, on 08/07/2008, -1/+1I don't believe that plastic is really as bad as the environmentalist make it out to be. Sure it fills up the land fills but it is not causing any HARM. It just sits there. As to it being a petrochemical I don't see a problem with that either. To me it is a way to trap the petroleum in a stable state and not pollute the air or water. As to the ocean pollution the answer is simple STOP DUMPING.
- diggydougie, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I agree. But is the clutter really "damage"? It's just clutter. Yes it is ugly, but no one will die from it. And some animals use the plastic as housing. The environmentalists don't mention that.
- lonesomewolf, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Really? Ignorant? Prior to the 1960s, plastics were not in the make up of everyday items. The reason? It cost a lot of money wasn't up to the job. The reason for their rapid rise in the past 3 decades is due to newer chemical engineering processes taking hydro-carbon (that would be oil for you less educated folks out there) and solidify them into plastics cheaply. Yes, the plastic bottle you and I are drinking out of is just solidified oil. Since hydro-carbons (oil) have been overly abundant until this century, plastics have been widely adopted in almost everything in today's society. Plastics are used in medical devices, cars, phones, computers, toys to food containers to building structures. Unfortunately our rapid use of plastics is coming at great cost to not only ocean marine life but ourselves. Plastic is not glass (inert) and it does leach some nasty chemicals and we are seeing various plastic chemicals show up in our bodies. And if you think plastic containers are such a wonderful inert substance why isn't your chemistry lab full of plastic beakers? Because plastic leaches and hot plastic leaches a lot. What is interesting is that with the ban of PCBs we are seeing lover PCB levels in people born after 1970 but much higher concentration of chemicals that compose various plastics.
http://www.mindfully.org/Plastic/Plasticizers/Out- ... - horatiolust, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0"The fundamental goal of environmentalism is not clean air and clean water; rather, it is the demolition of technological/industrial civilization. Environmentalism's goal is not the advancement of human health, human happiness, and human life; rather, it is a subhuman world where "nature" is worshipped like the totem of some primitive religion."
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=5167 - radiofrequency, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Most of the waste comes from packaging. For example, it makes no sense that a plastic bottle of Tylenol comes in a cardboard box that is immediately discarded. Cereal comes in a wasteful cardboard box.
But both of those are used to pack bulk items in a more orderly manner prior to transportation and look better on store shelves, not to mention that if you eliminated the boxes many thousands of jobs would be lost. - TheMachine1, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I disagree I made a small injection molding machine collected my own HDPE plastic milk bottles cleaned them (just like washing a dirty dish), chopped them up and reheated it forms a hot taffy like material that can be remolded.
- wunksta, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0i think the point isnt that its "destroying the earth" but more that it creates a problem in our environment WE have to deal with. it creates a feedback loop.
- runner1, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Err... No.
- wunksta, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0the problem is that plastic is very inefficient and toxic to recycle. it would be better to find an alternative for most plastic usages.
- scoottie, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0hefty hefty hefty
wimpy wimpy wimpy - astrotrain, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0I cringe when companies announce "new disposable" items. Like I witnessed last night for Benadryl, they now offer a travel single dose for kids. But do not show the mother throwing it away, just puts the now empty plastic holder back in her shirt to just throw away later.
Oh and do not forget the chemicals that are added into the plastics, such as the BHA. That leeching into your disposible food and water containers, will surely have you think twice! - joshuaer, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0yes at one time heroin was legal, but it was cocaine that was put in elixirs, tonics and drinks.
- norman619, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0elf:
Glass gets crushed and ground and will eventually return to that which is came. Glass is not a man made material. It's 100% natural. We just purify it or add things to color it or ajdust its strength. In the end it will turn back into sand. - wunksta, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0uh yeah, plastic breaks down fairly easily. the problem is that the small parts last for a long time.
- ohearn, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Most plastics photodegrade, meaning they break down in UV light, they do not biodegrade, so if you bury it a lot of plastics will not ever breakdown naturally.
Glass can be easily melted down and recycled for most common types of glass. There is really no excuse for not recycling it to begin with. - elfprince13, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0check out a bottle of kids cough syrup from 150 years ago.
- thosemoose, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Im currently in an experiment. I've drastically cut my usage of plastic bags in the last year -- but have actually kept almost every (~90%) of all the plastic bags I've been given. In October, I'm going to tally them to see how many I've got. I'm amazed though, even when cutting back drastically, I still have a TON of plastic bags in my shed. Im just trying to imagine what the usage in a year for an average or above average bag user.
- morepowerr, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0And people ask me why i long to have Mt Dew put in to glass bottle's.
p.s. I still say it stayed cooler longer in glass. - radiofrequency, on 08/07/2008, -0/+0Is there ANYTHING we can want, buy or use that doesn't in one way or another deplete the earth's resources?
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