STRIP FOR Jul 14, 2009
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User Name: Roger_the_Intern
Jul 14, 2009
+1
@mbh:
Perhaps he did.
I always questioned the use of paper to make single use...well, I was going to say cups, but I guess I feel the same about anything made from trees. The point here being SINGLE USE-
My city doesn't use a landfill, all trash gets incenerated (for electrical power, so at least there is one upshot to this method). So now we have cut down all the trees (oxygen producers, top soil binders, and habitat) to make little paper cups that get tossed out by the handfull, only to be burned (adding to the atmospheric problems caused by the CO2 emitted, you know- that stuff TREES use..) producing soot, which in turn blocks some of the sunlight reaching the planet, thus starving the trees of that other food requirement, too.
Sure, paper would be the lesser of 2 evils, but still far from perfect.
I liked the comment by itegem- Go go Earthen-ware!! (and I thought I was the only one getting stronger from the funky stuff in the bottom of the mug! haha)
Perhaps he did.
I always questioned the use of paper to make single use...well, I was going to say cups, but I guess I feel the same about anything made from trees. The point here being SINGLE USE-
My city doesn't use a landfill, all trash gets incenerated (for electrical power, so at least there is one upshot to this method). So now we have cut down all the trees (oxygen producers, top soil binders, and habitat) to make little paper cups that get tossed out by the handfull, only to be burned (adding to the atmospheric problems caused by the CO2 emitted, you know- that stuff TREES use..) producing soot, which in turn blocks some of the sunlight reaching the planet, thus starving the trees of that other food requirement, too.
Sure, paper would be the lesser of 2 evils, but still far from perfect.
I liked the comment by itegem- Go go Earthen-ware!! (and I thought I was the only one getting stronger from the funky stuff in the bottom of the mug! haha)
User Name: oldschoolskater
Jul 14, 2009
0
How do styrofoam cups take up 25% of landfill space each year? Wouldn't in four years, all of the landfills be full? (Or should they not have been filled completely years ago on that basis?). The complaint that Adams didn't do his research, but there is no support cited for the claim made herein. I can think of a lot of stuff that is a lot more dense and much larger than crushed styrofoam cups that goes into landfills. Have you ever visited one? I used to haul junk out to the landfill and in 20 years, it climbed just a bit higher, but not at the rate described by the 25,000,000 claimed and 25% of landfill space... I'm just sayin...
In the early 1980s, the tree-hugging liberals decided the plastic bags they now decry as evil were the answer to save the trees and save the world. They shifted an entire industry from paper to plastic, because in their view, the plastic really was better.
Damn bunch of hypocrites... like a field of wheat, they lean whichever way the wind is blowing.
In the early 1980s, the tree-hugging liberals decided the plastic bags they now decry as evil were the answer to save the trees and save the world. They shifted an entire industry from paper to plastic, because in their view, the plastic really was better.
Damn bunch of hypocrites... like a field of wheat, they lean whichever way the wind is blowing.
User Name: mbh
Jul 14, 2009
-7
Ironically, given that 25,000,000 styrofoam cups go into landfills every year, makes up 25% of our landfill space and is NOT recyclable - and, when burned they give off over 90 different hazardous chemicals, including styrene vapors and dioxin.
So the company really IS helping the planet... It is amazing that such a detail-oriented, fact-driven individual such as Dilbert did no research to figure this out...
So the company really IS helping the planet... It is amazing that such a detail-oriented, fact-driven individual such as Dilbert did no research to figure this out...
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