On 2/27/2015 10:25 AM, 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.


So we should all live without plastics because some people are slobs?
Better we should educate people to properly dispose of plastics and
either recycle or use it in a trash to energy plant because it has a
good fuel value. Styrene plastics have 18,000 BTU per pound.

Maybe we should live without the automobile because they kill people.