Plastic. Fantastic?

Can we learn to live with (and even love) plastic?

As the most visible evidence of a disposable, trash-addled society, plastic has become the emblem of a world swimming in waste. Reportedly, plastic shopping bags are used an average of just 12 minutes before being thrown away. Every year, more than 500 billion plastic bags are discarded worldwide; they wave from tree branches so abundantly that South Africans have dubbed them their "national flower," and no fewer than six countries have enacted bans. ... Full Story »

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Norman Rogers
2.5
by Norman Rogers - Apr. 27, 2009

Now the environmental extremists admit they have been wrong about plastic. They have a new scheme to order our lives. These guys are busy bodies who should just leave the rest of us alone.

The ignorance of environmentalists knows no bounds. They constantly come up with illogical schemes like powering the country with the wind or sun.

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