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Environment & Energy

TheFarseer

(9,319 posts)

1. Thank God

Reply to lordsummerisle (Original post)

Sun May 17, 2020, 07:06 PM

May 2020

That sounds like just what we need. I’ve been reading that recycling plastic is basically a joke foisted on us by the plastic industry so that we won’t demand anti plastic legislation.

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The end of plastic? New plant-based bottles will degrade in a year [View all] lordsummerisle May 2020 OP

Thank God TheFarseer May 2020 #1

Hope it works. Baked Potato May 2020 #2

I detest plastic.Even virgogal May 2020 #3

Plant sugars I_UndergroundPanther May 2020 #4

Let's hope this will be our new plastic! Tired of having to buy everything in plastic. Canoe52 May 2020 #5

We've already cleared most of the world's prairies for cropland NickB79 May 2020 #6

Here's the company who came up with this: lordsummerisle May 2020 #7

All "biomass will save us" proposals are wasting our time NickB79 May 2020 #8

You should enlighten them n/t lordsummerisle May 2020 #9

Why? No one is listening NickB79 May 2020 #10

Someone must be listening n/t lordsummerisle May 2020 #11