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- From: bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles)
- Subject: Re: Social inhibitions to environmental change
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.020812.25734@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration / Boulder Labs
- References: <1307@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM> <liptgsINN992@news.bbn.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 02:08:12 GMT
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- >In article <1307@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM>, ksm@abb-sc.abb-sc.com (Ashley) writes:
- >>
- >> I've been brainstorming on ideas of how [plastic] could be re-used
- >> effectively.
- >> I'd rather it did not get buried there and a shredded, pressed plastic and
- >>(?)
- >> particle board or sheetrock would be a useful place to put it.
-
- Sigh.
-
- Building code would probably prohibit that. Many plastics put out toxic
- gases when burned; you do _not_ want to kill the occupants of a house
- due to a minor electrical fire.
-
- I know you mean well, but you _must_ consider the consequences of things
- going wrong. There are _very_ tight restrictions on the structural materials
- you are allowed to use -- plastics which produce toxic gases and aggregate
- of unknown strength are simply not permitted.
-
- (The "plastic wood" another person mentioned is _not_ a structural material.
- You can see it in park benches and some playground equipment, but not in
- home construction).
-
-
- --
- Bear Giles
- bear@fsl.noaa.gov/cs.colorado.edu
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