IVIV plastics

Daniel Cape daniel.cape at gmail.com
Wed Sep 30 20:37:08 CDT 2009


Dean Cain (!) presents clip about a man who made his own island out of
plastic bottles. I'm Green with envy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cvn9l1pJ3-A

2009/9/30 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>

> and all those plastic bags
> i've begun using these earth friendly poopie bags for the dogs
> can't imagine the number of plastic bags i went thru
> also can't imagine why we can't ditch the use here in the states
> betcha if we brought our own bags we wouldn't buy so much crap
>
> rich
>
> On 9/29/09, Doug Millison <dougmillison at comcast.net> wrote:
> > My understanding is that plastics don't break down, ever, they will
> > remain in Earth's geological record forever.  In the ocean, plastic
> > refuse is worn into ever-smaller granules, but they don't go away, so
> > says  The World Without Us by Alan Weinstein.
> >
> > On Sep 28, 2009, at 9:35 PM, pynchon-l-digest wrote:
> >
> >> But plastics are kinda outside the 'natural' processes of entropy, not
> >> breaking down unless you want to take a really, really long view of
> >> things.
> >
> >
>
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