On 3/21/2019 10:45 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 3/21/2019 10:07 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
>> On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 9:26:34 AM UTC-4, GM wrote:
>>> https://fee.org/articles/america-fin...-doesn-t-work/
>>>
>>> America Finally Admits Recycling Doesnt Work
>>
>> They're not wrong.Â* Perhaps we could just use less damned stuff,
>> especially disposable stuff.
>>
> Beaufort County, SC recently, and so far successfully banned stores from
> offering plastic bags.Â* If you don't bring your own cloth bags, stores
> offer paper bags.Â* I now have a collection of paper bags.Â* The ones from
> Publix Supermarket are quite nice: sturdy, foldable and with handles.Â* I
> do re-use them.
>
>
> Jill

Paper bags are a fallacy too. In landfills they do not disappear like
people think, though they can be recycled, same as plastic. Reusable is
still the best idea.

Trash to energy plants are becoming more common too. Trash can be
burned cleaner than coal and instead of digging a hole to hold the
trash, get the energy from it to fuel Kuthe's car. Most plastics
contain about 18,000 BTU per pound. Newspaper is 8,000 BTU per
pound.Even coffee grounds have 10,000 BTU to burn

Many companies have reduced packaging, but it still has a long way to
go. Especially fancy products like high end cosmetics that depends on
fancy packaging to sell the cheap ingredients inside. Some years go a
customer gave us a package design to quote for a car radio and speaker
system. We gave them a price, but also gave them a design idea that
would save them 20%. Nope, they wanted the bigger package to put some
eye catching graphics when sitting on the shelf at the auto supply store.