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<TD vAlign=top>Here's a post for the Greens.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Sat, 11/7/09, Darien De Lu <I><conjoin@macnexus.org></I></B> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Dear All,</DIV>
<DIV> These photos of albatross chicks, starved to death and/or poisoned by plastic, depict the problem poignantly: http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=11</DIV>
<DIV> The plastic<I> doesn't go anywhere</I>, it stays right here on Earth, for at least hundreds of years, contaminating , poisoning, and killing. What can be done? Of course, the most obvious is - AVOID BUYING/ACCEPTING ANY PLASTIC!</DIV>
<DIV> I would say STOP, but that's nearly impossible. (Hmm, this key board on which I type, it's made of...) But we can use matches, or refillable lighters, instead of disposable ones; seek out glass, wooden, and metal alternatives to many consumer goods. Minimize and re-use plastic bags (remember waxed paper?)</DIV>
<DIV> Of course, plastic is<I> so</I> cheap - if you don't consider the disposal/future. These brings up the critical difference between<I> price</I> and (full)<I> cost</I>. Right now,<I> every piece</I> of plastic manufactured since 1930 is still in the environment. (Much of it is in the form of very small pieces - suitable for albatrosses and other creatures to mistake for food - but it's not gone! That applies to those "biodegradable" plastic bags, that disintegrate into bits of... plastic!)</DIV>
<DIV> Additionally, of course, plastic is made from fossil fuels.</DIV>
<DIV> Be aware, be informed, be consequential.</DIV>
<DIV> Your planet-loving friend, Darien</DIV>
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