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- From: jeffs@almaden.ibm.com (Jeff Schneiter)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: Pushing Plastic
- Message-ID: <2122@coyote.UUCP>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 19:51:56 GMT
- References: <1h6etqINN66n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- Reply-To: jeffs@almaden.ibm.com (Jeff Schneiter)
- Organization: IBM Almaden Research Center
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- In article <1h6etqINN66n@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> co940@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Nicholas E. Damato) writes:
- >Okay,
- >I'm going to try another post here...
- >I don't know everything about plastics, but let me offer the
- >current argument:
-
- Neither do I, so I will be condensing your post just to a topic
- or two that are of interest to me.
-
- > [ questions and statements removed ]
-
- >The chief pollution involved in plastics is involved in the
- >oil extraction and manufacturing processes.
- >
- >Is it possible that pumping oil and making plastics causes
- >less environmental problems than cutting forests, and bleaching
- >cellulose and polluting water?
- >
-
- Instead of trying to figure out what can be done with the plastic
- once it has been made and used, how about using a different source
- for making plastic AND paper?!
-
- For example, re-legalizing hemp would help in this area. Hemp does
- not need to be bleached prior to making paper, and it can be used for
- making plastic.
-
- I have been wondering why there have been no discussions of the
- environmental uses of hemp in this group. Some would say to take this
- discussion to talk.politics.drugs or alt.drugs, but this group
- seems more appropriate, and more knowledgeable.
-
- >does burying old plastics like polyethylene pose a significant
- >environmental toxics problem?
-
- Damn, I know that there is a hemp based plastic solution to this one,
- but I do not have my info here.
-
- >Once again, do not misinterperate this article as "pro-plastic"
- >I'm just posing some " For instance " type questions, for the
- >purpose of discussion.
-
- >ned.
-
- And for me: Dear IBM, do not take this as a pro-hemp-useage post,
- I have no original thoughts.
-
- ==
- "The whole idea of individual creativity and expression in
- the classroom was really basically opposed to the whole idea
- of the University." Pirsig
- ==
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