On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 11:32:01 -0400, wrote:

>On 27 Feb 2015 15:25:11 GMT, notbob > wrote:
>
>>On 2015-02-26, > wrote:
>>
>>> Do you even bother to recycle ?
>>
>>For all the good it does, why bother?
>>
>>I've seen some pretty grim documentaries. Last Call At the Oasis, a
>>docu on how we may run out of fresh water even before we run out of
>>oil. Rise of the Super Bugs, a docu on the new generation of
>>antibiotic resistant bacteria, that no known medicine can stop. You
>>catch 'em, you die. I see a lot of these, being retired and in having
>>nothing to watch except Netflix. NF finds these docus from
>>god-knows-where and it's seriously depressed watching them all. But!
>>....I've never seen anything as horrifying as Plastic Paradise, the
>>documentary on how discarded plastics are killing us and the entire
>>planet.
>>
>>http://www.vegetariantimes.com/blog/...stic-paradise/
>>
>>IOW, don't salve yer mind with recycling. It's a joke. What you
>>should be doing is trying to live without plastics. I know it's
>>tough. Even our clothing is plastic. But, we gotta start. The
>>scenes of a mother Albatross feeding her chick bits of plastic, we
>>knowing they both will eventually die, is heartbreaking. Yet the
>>Midway rangers continue to pile up dead Albatross bodies like cord
>>wood. Birds that, when cut open, spill out a gut full of Bic lighters
>>and fishing line and micro-bits of plastic.
>>
>>Jes watch the movie ....if you dare.
>>
>>nb
>
>No I wouldn`t care to, however even a few years ago, I could see the
>bottom of deeper water changing. Amazing what was down there in some
>places.
>
>I honestly try to buy the less packaged articles and here, all our
>plastic is recyclable. It is costly on the property taxes, but well
>worth it. Best of all is tire recycling. I also do a lot of
>reusing, which is even better behaviour.

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