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Article #160Re: Plastic Recycling and Products Ther
From: Ecology Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:52
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:52
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Plastics do leach [note spelling] chemicals from landfills if they are buried with many very common solvents. Check out the paper trail for your local landfill, examining what kinds of solvents are dumped there, before you decide your polystyrene meat tray isn't going to leach styrene into the groundwater. The weight percentage is always trotted out by plastics advocates. Plastic is very light compared to most other discards. Landfills don't fill up from the _weight_ of the discards, but from their _volume_. Estimates from the admittedly biased American Paper Institute hold that 20-30% of landfill _volume_ is taken by plastic. chris
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sun-barr!ames!sgi!cdp!ecologycntr From: Ecology Center <ecologycntr@igc.apc.org> Newsgroups: ca.environment Date: 21 Jan 93 08:52 PST Subject: Re: Plastic Recycling and Products Ther Sender: Notesfile to Usenet Gateway <notes@igc.apc.org> Message-ID: <1332900126@igc.apc.org> References: <ll9e0rINNcbu@exodus.eng.sun.com> Nf-ID: #R:ll9e0rINNcbu@exodus.eng.sun.com:117344493:cdp:1332900126:000:644 Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!ecologycntr Jan 21 08:52:00 1993 Lines: 15