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- From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Social inhibitions to environmental change
- Message-ID: <Bzs81y.4En@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 21:08:22 GMT
- References: <1307@abb-sc.abb-sc.COM> <liptgsINN992@news.bbn.com> <1992Dec22.020812.25734@colorado.edu>
- Reply-To: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
- Followup-To: talk.environment
- Organization: COMANDOS Project, Glesga Yoonie
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- bear@tigger.cs.Colorado.EDU (Bear Giles) wrote:
- > 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.
- > 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.
-
- The board Ashley envisages has been in industrial-scale production from a
- firm in Aberdeen for a few years. I'm not entirely sure what its main use
- is, but UK building codes aren't that different from US ones so it ought to
- have some application there too.
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