[Hojczyk]

Interesting Article worth a read..

[SgtHooper]

The PRC. The worst examples of selfish and criminal humanity.

[rexthecat]

Why can’t plastic be developed that breaks down in salt water after a period of time?

[MUDDOG]

management schemes that make it hard or expensive to deal with waste

Just as liberals have made it hard and expensive to deal with illegal immigration.

The solution is simple and the same for both plastic waste and illegal immigration -- dump the plastic in a landfill, dump the illegals back across the border.

[I want the USA back]

Breaking apart is not the same as breaking down. Breaking apart is separating into small particles without any change in chemical composition. Breaking down is a chemical decomposition into a substance that does not have the characteristics of the original material.

The plastic in the ocean is breaking apart, spelling a disaster for creatures living in the ocean. There is currently no way for plastic materials to break down in the ocean or salt water. Would be nice if there were. There isn’t.

[firebrand]

I had this idea a long time ago but no one ever did it:

Sell food and other stuff in containers that can be recycled as building blocks.

[dfwgator]

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the Earth plus plastic. The Earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the Earth. The Earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the Earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

"Plastic… a__hole.”

[usconservative]

Report: Save the Oceans – Stop Recycling Plastic!

If we're recycling plastic, how's it getting into the ocean?

Had to ask -- onto reading the article now.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I have no choice but to keep putting plastic bottles in my recycle bin.

Insane California liberals force you to recycle by making the garbage container so tiny, you can’t barely fit all of your weekly garbage. I don’t know what large families do, but a small family can’t get all of their weekly garbage in one of these tiny bins, far smaller than the standard metal garbage cans we had through the 1970s.

I have been provided a MASSIVE green plastic bin for plant waster, a fair sized blue recycle bin, and a tiny gray garbage bin.

I could not fit any plastic or cardboard in the small gray bin if I tried. I have stuffed the MASSIVE green bin full of cardboard before, then covered it will leaves and branches. I can get rid of all my cardboard that way, but I just don’t have room in my tiny gray garbage bin so all that plastic is still going to find its way into the Oceans.

The insanity of liberals never ends. The unintended consequences screw us over again and again.

[nicollo]

I once met the founder of Trex, which makes plastic/pulp planks for decks.

He told me that Mobil Oil took an interest in his company because its plastic grocery bags recycling project failed since they hadn’t counted on people leaving paper grocery receipts in the bags, which messed up the recycling process.

This guy was already combining plastic with sawdust/ wood pulp, so it was Mobil’s best option to salvage the plastic bags project, which was supposed to “save the trees” from paper bags. (Remember that one?)

Here for the wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trex_Company,_Inc.

[minnesota_bound]

We have a Trash only and Recycle only bin.
Same garbage truck picks up both at the same time.