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Originally Posted by Willravel
You know, the natural cycle, where plastic naturally returns to the earth over the next couple hundred thousand years in a landfill.
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This at first seemed like a witty retort for my ridiculous position. But then I thought, is it so bad to have a gigantic mountain of plastic bottles, when the alternative is to have all the carbon molecules in the air?
If you give me choice between incinerating garbage versus piling them in Grand Canyon. I would probably choose dumping them.
I guess the anti-incineration stance would be perhaps less controversial than anti-recycling stance. Maybe.
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Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak
Its all a giant conspiracy on behalf of the government. Metals and plastics are conveniently stockpiled to be used in secret weapons production facilities. I still havent figured out what they're doing with all of the neatly sorted clear/brown/green beer bottles yet. They will probably be used to create some sort of kick-ass stained glass windows in the 're-education camps' they're building out in Nevada.
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Nice. Perhaps I should have posted this in conspiracy forum.
I think I know what's going one with some of the bottles. If you are in California, some of the glass bottles are being shipped to China to be recycled there, at least that's the way it was before the recent economic collapse. If you are in England. They are just being dumped in the landfill. There is apparently a huge glut of green bottles due to all the bottled wine that's being imported.