Re: OT throw away society - repercusions

Bonnie,
These reports have been coming in for many years, though yours is
probably the most recent. And yet no one does anything but report on
them. I just don't understand it.

Kitty
> November issue of Natural History includes a disturbing feature about the
> amount of plastic in the Pacific Ocean.  In the North Pacific subtropical
> gyre there is a "patch" of floating plastic debris the size of Texas.  
> What is more alarming than the debris is that the "plastic polymers (the
> tiny molecules of plastic that don't break down)...are sponges for DDT,
> PCBs, and other oily pollutants.  The Japanese investigators found that
> plastic resin pellets concentrate such poisons to levels as high as a
> million times their concentrations in the water as free-floating
> substances".  And, these get into the ecosystem and into the food web. 
> Nature might not be able to produce a pollutant-free fish.
> 
> Bonnie Zone 6+ ETN
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: <Godigarden@cs.com>
> > To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> > Date: 11/12/2003 2:19:59 PM
> > Subject: Re: [CHAT]  OT throw away society
> >
> > Kitty,
> > I hear you loud and clear. I'm so fed up with being told that practically 
> > anything that's more than two year old is really OLD and not worth
> keeping. I 
> > have gone through the same problems as you. IMO an appliance or other
> major 
> > purchase should last a long time when you consider the price. The other
> thing is 
> > that so many companies are in chapter 11 so you are stuck.
> > Godi zone 7 
> > Mt. Vernon VA
> >
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