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Posted By George54 - Fri, Oct 30 2009 at 10:41 AM ESTTwo Problems: Sugar/Cornsurp & Nasty Municipal Water
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I'm all for eliminating plastic bottles. It horrendous to have so much waste ending up in our environment. However, it strikes me as a huge missed opportunity to focus this on bottled water. What about sugar drinks which also cause obesity and all the addendent health problems? Most of those are delivered in plastic bottles. Why are these untouchable? Seems like a more important target to me.
This attack also glosses over the problems many municipalities.... More
Posted By Robert Berke - Fri, Oct 30 2009 at 3:06 AM ESTWithdraw junk mail subsidy
The US post office should quit subsidizing junk mail, which often winds up in the garbage unread and only multiplies the trash thrown away.
Posted By Lisa - Fri, Oct 30 2009 at 12:07 AM EST4-Rs
You can get a reusable bottle or use your own cups. There is also a company, Primo, that sells bottled water but they do not make the bottles from petroleum. The bottles are made from plants. I'm not trying to advertise this but if I have to use a plastic water bottle(s), I buy them. Check it out - primowater.com
Posted By Manny - Fri, Oct 30 2009 at 3:55 PM ESTREFUSE!
Blatant advertising + disclamer = FAIL!
With almost 7 billion people on the planet the throaway culture is never going to work, whether disposables are made our of petroleum or, as you kindly put it, from "plants" (GMO corn in most cases, yuk) . Bottled water SUCKS, primo included. Boo!
Posted By Wuz - Thu, Oct 29 2009 at 6:20 PM ESTRecycling is bad
I always thought that recycling plastic was a good thing. Now you're telling me plastic is bad?? I guess I'll have to go with all those little paper cups instead.
Posted By Tom Lauria - Thu, Oct 29 2009 at 2:46 PM ESTOil's leftovers form plastic
Did you know plastic containers aren't made from new oil at all! They are made from an oil by-product, not virgin oil. That means instead of disposing leftover oil, it's made into useful, light-weight plastic, which has many social benefits and is easily recycled.
Posted By jan - Fri, Oct 30 2009 at 4:44 AM ESTeasily?
it would be, but plastic is alway contaminated with other materials (print, plastic of a different make up as cap or wrapper). this makes recycling impossible. in order to use it (e.g. for making a new bottle) the industry needs its resources to be as pure as possible, otherwise it will not have the desired traits. basically most recycling schemes are a fake operation to make the consumer feel better about their wastefull livestyle, sorry.
Posted By Anonymous - Thu, Oct 29 2009 at 2:15 AM ESTrecycle
Recycle your old cell phones for free! just go to HaveURebooted.com for a mail in label or drop off location.
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**** Recycling
I never do it, and never will.