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It's the Climate, stupid
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Three Berries
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I use to work for Ice River Springs water bottler a typical Vertically organized Canadian company that made the product from beginning to end. We recycled all our plastic but it will degrade the final product. Maybe 10% could be reintroduced to virgin plastic or the bottle gets soft.
And the caps/neck rings are not compatible with the bottle plastic.
Recycling plastic really is contrary to the environmental goals of carbon containment unless it can be reused in a less energy intensive way than using virgin material.
Plastics are a major part of our lives and really we cannot go back. If tying up carbon is a worthy goal, then using plastics is a good way to do that. At least we benefit from the use and it takes decades to centuries to eons to degrade back to elemental carbon.
Rico Swazi
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lots to say on the subject of microplastics now eh berries?
Way back then you cowered when I called you out
you let the noodle take over but he can't save you now
still talkin Co2 like it is the end all
deniers tell me that floating pile of degrading plastic doesn't affect the planet's climate... and life overall.
Way back then you cowered when I called you out
you let the noodle take over but he can't save you now
still talkin Co2 like it is the end all
deniers tell me that floating pile of degrading plastic doesn't affect the planet's climate... and life overall.
Three Berries
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Plastic is a part of modern life. We aren't getting rid of it anymore than fossil fuels.
The floating pile out in the oceans isn't from USA. Please have them clean up their own mess.
Hey now...All you sinners, put your lights on.
Three Berries
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Around here we have what is called weekly garbage pickup and they sort the garbage and then landfill what they don't separate.
Doesn't take much investigation to see where that plastic comes from.
Three Berries
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Looks to me like it's getting recycled. Most industrial places do bale their plastics waste.
You should have seen the plastic waste we had at the old water bottler. At least a bale or two a shift.
What a maroon.....
Is that what it looks like?
Here's where that photo came from.
Recyclers Cringe as Southeast Asia Says It’s Sick of the West’s Trash
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/world/asia/asia-trash.html
Three Berries
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Why do they take it if they are sick of it? And it still isn't the USA doing the ocean pollution.
$$$$$
And that's how the mentally feeble justify it
Three Berries
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Justify what, using plastic? Why don't you look up rivers of trash.
If the US EPA wasn't such NAZIs we would be recycling it here in the USA or burying it in landfills. Why is is cheaper to ship it half way around the world than to dispose of it here in where it's used?
Meanwhile in Austria
Rico Swazi
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^good example of what I was saying early on in this thread
colder wetter winters
hotter drier summers
O Darwin, Where Art Thou?
colder wetter winters
hotter drier summers
O Darwin, Where Art Thou?
Rico Swazi
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3 braincells
Your posts in thread, and this forum in general, demonstrate the detrimental effects of your sniffing melted plastic over the years
Outspoken AND incredibly stupid is no way to go through life yet you made it thus far
Hiring noodles at your bakery so that he could continue harassing phone calls was not a surprise
Three Berries
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Look at all the plastic in that picture.....
At least I have three brain cells, more than you?
Rico Swazi
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Outspoken AND incredibly stupid
call you reacharound sue
call you reacharound sue
