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Strat I agree. Trees are a sustainable crop that never killed a sea turtle.

posted by FreeManWalking on January 31, 2008 at 5:29 AM | link to this | reply

The truth is, paper isn't that bad.
Trees largely put me through college. I still own timberlands -- not that I'm International Paper or something, but it's like anything else -- grow, replant, harvest responsibly, rather than hideously rape the landscape by wholesale clear-cutting, and you can provide people with tree products and still constantly have plenty of trees for the environment.

Like anything else, it's all about best practices, True, too many do not follow them, but to me, that's where a lot more concentrated effort, even incentive, needs to be placed.

posted by strat on January 30, 2008 at 6:30 AM | link to this | reply

The Unknown Recyclist
 Paper bagit>

posted by BC-A on January 29, 2008 at 6:16 PM | link to this | reply

I wear out my plastic bags before I finally send them to the dump.

I have used them as stopgap gapstoppers on my sliding glass doors (big energy wasters) and discovered that they break down into increasingly miniscule fragments at the slightest touch after as while in the sun. When I use them terminally for trash I tie them shut around heavy stuff so they won't blow. They specifically mimic Physalia physalia (Portugese Man o' War jellyfish) and so become intestinal blockages for the sea turtles (terrapins?) who eat them in lieu of their living, stinging prey.

Hybrid cars...someone here wrote an article in the paper with math. If you drove without anger and verve to and from your job in a fuel-efficient gas car, you can actually save as much fuel as owning a hybrid and save thousands of dollars. As long as cars are burning gasoline in reciprocal/piston engines, instead of running turbines, creating steam, dieseling, etc, then the political and environmental savings just are not as great as they need to be. Hybrids are a first step only.

 

posted by majroj on January 27, 2008 at 4:36 PM | link to this | reply

There are a lot of industries
that benefit from things that pollute the environment

posted by jollyjeff on January 27, 2008 at 12:57 PM | link to this | reply

Of course now I'm going to have to go BUY plastic bags to pick up my dog's poo so people don't get all bent out of shape!!! Agh!   Maybe I can try to pick up poop with paper bags. But I see a lot of shit on my hands!

posted by Holy_Grail on January 27, 2008 at 7:20 AM | link to this | reply