Who would have thought!!

[etheric underground]

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[etheric underground]

Makes you realise that we need re educating of the majority, to ensure we recycle and look after mother EARTH..

[WhiteFeather]

Its time, we need to invent a biodegradable garbage bag to replace these plastic ones. I'm damn sure Mother Earth is suffering from this alone. Think of all the plastic garbage bags we throw out daily.

[CeltMan]

Its time, we need to invent a biodegradable garbage bag to replace these plastic ones. I'm damn sure Mother Earth is suffering from this alone. Think of all the plastic garbage bags we throw out daily.

WF, already been done me old mate,.........well, here in UK at least.

Not always used though, but IMO should be made compulsory, for supermarkets etc to issue them.

If anyone has ever stored things in them, strange affect when coming back after, say a year.... the bag has already started to decompose!!

(sort of looks like the moths have been having a go at them!!...lol)

[xbusymom]

I think that we ought to get the funds together and buy one of these

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[mosquito]

I recently came across the horrifying statistic that 50,000,000 disposable nappies are used every day ! This was in a text book published in 2008.

Over the time they've been in use, how many does this add up to ? If they take 550 years to decompose, how long will it be before we live in a giant "pampers" tip ?

Wouldn't it be nice if a significant proportion of these things could be disposed of at the doors of the corporations which make them.

Another consideration is that they have now become the accepted means, more or less worldwide, of coping with this particular aspect of child care. How many parents would be willing to go back to washing towelling nappies ? Probably not many.

It is definitley time for the manufacturers to take responsibility and develop a solution to the problem, whether it's a means of breaking them down mecahnically/chemically, or designing a new product which decomposes a lot quicker..

[GoodETxSG]

Wow, let me dress in my traditional Cherokee ceremonial tunic and head dress and roll a tear down my cheek to post like the public service littering commercial in the 70's. That makes me sick! The crazy things we are doing to our home... the plastic bottles and trash alone in the Atlantic that is as large as a continent spinning around in the currents is bad enough. When a new species flies up within sensor range and detects all of the war and oceanic and atmospheric poison I am sure most of the put on their blinkers and do a u turn and get away from the insane dominant species of that pretty blue planet they were looking forward to visiting. Thank you for the post!
Shame on us... :painkiller:

[sandy]

Thank you, xbusymom:cool:

This invention needs to go viral IMHO>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>we won't run out of oil any time soon if the people in each community started a recycling center for their plastics >>>>>>>while promoting the release and implementation of Free Energy.

I'm going to Face Book this video after first doing a little research on this fellow. Hopefully what I find is real and happening and that this is not funded by TPTB and it being promoted to stave off the eventual release of Free Energy for all.

[CeltMan]

I recently came across the horrifying statistic that 50,000,000 disposable nappies are used every day ! This was in a text book published in 2008.

Over the time they've been in use, how many does this add up to ? If they take 550 years to decompose, how long will it be before we live in a giant "pampers" tip ?

Wouldn't it be nice if a significant proportion of these things could be disposed of at the doors of the corporations which make them.

Another consideration is that they have now become the accepted means, more or less worldwide, of coping with this particular aspect of child care. How many parents would be willing to go back to washing towelling nappies ? Probably not many.

It is definitley time for the manufacturers to take responsibility and develop a solution to the problem, whether it's a means of breaking them down mecahnically/chemically, or designing a new product which decomposes a lot quicker..

Re the 'disposable nappies', here in UK they are discusing a scheme to recycle these.
This was being debated last year at a local community meeting I attended. On 'suggsetions for new products from the nappies', I suggetsded either 'tissues', or 'face masks', which was well received.........lol (Edit: the actual recycling method, was to use these nappies as fuel source)

Seriously though, recycling is a subject that I have discussed in depth with my son(who is both a passionate & professional environmentalist)

It is a sad fact that humans will only act affirmitively when they have to.

Meaning, that here in UK, landfill is almost exhausted.
So a few years back the local councils have introduced mandetory recycling schemes.
Personally, I was already doing a lot of recycling. (vedge waste-garden composter, bottles to bottle banks, newspapers to special collection points etc)

Now we have three bins: a large green wheelie bin,-for recyclable materials, a large grey bin for non-recyclable materials, and a small bin for food waste.

The green bin is collected one a fortnight as is the grey bin, the food bin is collected every week
Personnaly, I put out the green bin fortnightly, but the food bin only fortnightly, and the grey bin, only once a month.

My vedge & fruit waste is placed in my garden composter bin.

It so happens that our particular council has a very sophisitcated piece of recycling plant, which can even take metal caps off bottles, and removes lables off jars etc. They are also able to handle a lot of plastics which would othewise go to the landfill.

And yes, of course, the whole process starts with the manufacturers, who are being forced to consider the 'whole life cycle of any product'
I watched my son give a lecture (posted on YouTube) recently about recycling, to a group of CEO's of UK's top 100 companies.

He tells me that they are (reluctantly-in a lot of cases) coming around to the concept of recyling.

What bothers me, & others though, is what is to happen to the masses of plastic, which is in landfill, which will take thousands of years to deteriorate.

And, with the need for new housing, there have already been instances here in UK, where houses have been built over a land fill site.......and....subsidance has occurred, and methane gasses have been detected ecaping and rising to pollute the houses & occupants.

On a similar note, I actually wittnessed such a mishap, a few years ago

In the old steel works, they used to use coal & coke as a fuel.

The waste product was called 'slag'

Some bright sparks decided to build a new office block on one of the old slag heaps. Er, prob was, it was still active!!!

So, some subsidance, causing the remote sliding access doors to jam!! ...+ they constucted the building out of dark grey blocks, ..to match the local slag heaps!!. You cannot make this stuff up!!

Lets hope it is not too late, and that we can at least reverse some of the damage we humans have caused to this planet of which we are but custodians.

[sdv]

Thanks so much for all the info in this thread. I tried to convert people to recycling (by the way, it creates employment because we have to sort the stuff instead of just dumping it) and retreated bruised from the endeavour. I am re-energised by this thread to try again, and again, and again!

By the way, in supermarkets here biodegradable plastic bags are sold for garbage. Can plastic be biodegradable? Is this just a marketing con (they are more expensive)?

We also have to pay for plastic packets in supermarkets and there is a big drive to get people to buy and carry their own non-plastic shopping bags with them (more employment as supermarkets sell shopping bags made by community upliftment projects).