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Started by K. A. Dahlke
Mon, 21 Mar 1988 14:45
Nuker Plates
Author: K. A. Dahlke
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 14:45
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1988 14:45
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We're up to 60 nuker plates and climbing, and something has to be done. Understand, I don't eat a frozen dinner every night, maybe once or twice a week, cuz I'm lazy and I like them, but after a year or two, you get quite a stockpile of those plastic plates. I have never thrown them out since: they probably represent 15% of the cost, they make convenient sandwich plates and pie plates, and I'm uneasy about the image of landfills loaded with plastic plates that take 100,000 years to degrade, or incinerators that convert them into noxious poisonous carcinogens. But there's only five people in our house, and we just don't need 60 nuker plates. Question: What are these things made of? How many centuries are required to degrade this material? Can it be burned or otherwise eliminated safely? Can these plates be recycled, and if so where? What do you do with your nuker plates? What about other bulk plastic items? -- I do more all day -- than most people do before 9 A.M. Karl Dahlke ihnp4!ihuxv!eklhad
Re: Nuker Plates
Author: Gordon Fitch
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 14:50
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1988 14:50
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In article <2532@ihuxv.ATT.COM> eklhad@ihuxv.ATT.COM (K. A. Dahlke) writes: } } ...[about a plethora of nuker plates]... } }Question: }What are these things made of? }How many centuries are required to degrade this material? }Can it be burned or otherwise eliminated safely? }Can these plates be recycled, and if so where? }What do you do with your nuker plates? }What about other bulk plastic items? }-- There plates are now being used to build a mountain on Staten Island, New York, the world's largest garbage dump. Alternatively, you could use them as roofing or siding material on your house, couldn't you? Or instead of shoe leather....
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