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Article #8007Re: Plastic Recycling and Products Thereof
From: Bill "Bill" Tuthill
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1993 02:22
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10df74,b7ff5bfef76ef991 X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-01-17 18:22:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!sun-barr!west.West.Sun.COM!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!exodus.Eng.Sun.COM!cairo!tut From: tut@cairo.Eng.Sun.COM (Bill "Bill" Tuthill) Newsgroups: ca.environment Subject: Re: Plastic Recycling and Products Thereof Message-ID: <llk52iINN30l@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> Date: 18 Jan 93 02:22:10 GMT References: <ll9e0rINNcbu@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> <Jym.17Jan1993.1628@naughty-peahen> Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 16 NNTP-Posting-Host: cairo