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Re: Plastic Recycling and Products Thereof

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From: Bill "Bill" Tuthill
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 02:22
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jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:
> > I'm trying to find a white picket fence made of recycled
> > plastic, and have been unable to locate one.
> 
> =\= Why?  Plastic usually starts off looking ugly and
> invariably gets even uglier with age.  Most types of
> plastic are dust magnets.  And when its useful life is
> up, there's no way to return it back to the biosphere.

Oh great.  So you're recommending I put up a redwood fence, made
of products bought from Pacific Lumber, a division of Maxxam????
At least redwood returns to the biosphere, you're saying.  Perhaps
a pine fence would be better, since it would rot every five years,
giving the lumber industry an opportunity to cut down some more
old-growth forests?
 
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