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- From: tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli)
- Newsgroups: soc.bi
- Subject: Re: PC
- Date: 15 Nov 1992 22:01:39 -0500
- Organization: P.L.T.S., North Plainfield, NJ, USA
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- Message-ID: <1e72ujINNet6@plts.uucp>
- References: <1992Nov11.033630.18745@tcsi.com> <1e3862INNi47@plts.uucp> <BxqD02.Dwn@ibmpcug.co.uk>
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- In article <BxqD02.Dwn@ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
-
- >As they should! It shows you haven't thought the problem through.
- >
- >1) The complaint against styrofoam packaging wasn't that it didn't recycle
- > but that it was made with CFC gases.
-
- >2) Most styrofoam nowadays *doesn't* contain CFCs.
- >
- >3) Recycling paper is detrimental to the environment. The mass of trees
- > is not from stuff exracted from the ground, but primarily carbon extracted
- >[...]
-
- 1) The quote is one that I dug up from about 4 years ago, so #2 is
- invalid.
-
- 2) You missed the point. I'm not going to continue this because soc.bi
- isn't the right forum.
-
- Tom
- --
- Tom Limoncelli -- tal@plts.uucp (home) -- tal@warren.mentorg.com (work)
- When I said, "save the earth!" everyone cheered.
- When I said, "why are you using styrofoam cups which don't recycle?"
- everyone called me "PC" and told me to go away.
-