Re: Plastic Floating in the Pacific!

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From: Jym Dyer
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:16

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> Trees were at least renewable.  Plastic bags didn't come
> to save trees, they are merely cheaper.  Stay away from
> the touchy warm fuzzy feelie granola types and stay with
> the more scientifically knowledgeable ones.

=v= You're pointing fingers in the wrong direction.  Actually
the touchy etc. granola types avoid plastic bags as well.  The
notion that plastic has some environmental advantageous is and
always was industry public relations greenwash.

=v= Consumer resistance has always been high and the industry
put a *lot* of effort into overcoming it.  It took them until
the 1990s to really succeed, after fooling people with sham
recycling schemes and putting the chasing arrows "recyclable"
symbol on all containers regardless of their recyclability.
    <_Jym_>

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From: Jym Dyer <jym@econet.org>
Newsgroups: talk.environment,rec.backcountry,ca.environment
Subject: Re: Plastic Floating in the Pacific!
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:16:31 -0800
Organization: Sheldon Brown Has A Posse
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