Re: diapers (used to be useless warrentees)

Article View: misc.consumers.house

Article #6159

Back to misc.consumers.house Previous Next

#6159

From: Phil Ngai
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 1991 17:19

17 lines
1509 bytes

In article <24184@ttidca.TTI.COM> hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) writes:
|The manufacturing process for disposable diapers is energy intensive, so
|it puts more greenhouse gas into the atmosphere than it locks up.

Not if you use renewable energy like solar to manufacture the disposables.
Then every pound of carbon in a landfilled diaper is a pound of carbon
which won't become a deadly greenhouse gas.

|Further, the diapers are only used once, so many more of them have to be
|made.

Exactly, lots of carbon is taken out of the cycle when disposable
diapers are landfilled.

--
My father is on national television!
(Beef Council, Jupiter, Florida)

Technical Details

Message-ID: <1991Mar7.171935.24793@amd.com>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!amdcad!brahms!phil

References: <12394@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Mar6.003046.18709@amd.com> <24184@ttidca.TTI.COM>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10db0a,3d11eabdd0839b26
X-Google-Attributes: gid10db0a,public
X-Google-Thread: fb58e,6b5147505fca1ad6,start
X-Google-Attributes: gidfb58e,public
X-Google-Thread: 10df74,6b5147505fca1ad6,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid10df74,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-07 13:28:32 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!amdcad!brahms!phil
From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers.house,talk.environment,ca.environment
Subject: Re: diapers (used to be useless warrentees)
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.171935.24793@amd.com>
Date: 7 Mar 91 17:19:35 GMT
References: <12394@goofy.Apple.COM> <1991Mar6.003046.18709@amd.com> <24184@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Sender: usenet@amd.com (NNTP Posting)
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc; Sunnyvale, CA
Lines: 17

Reply to Parent Message