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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!

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To: Grainne who wrote (94072)	1/19/2005 8:45:51 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) of 108807

My pet peeve is the aluminized Mylar - there are some very good and technical reasons why that isn't a good thing to have floating in the environment. I once met a fisherman in the Sierra who found a trout with a cigarette but in its gullet. Teflon is pretty inert and there has been a huge benefit for humanity when you consider all the products (hips, heart valves, etc.) that use it. I just found it to be an interesting question and it is something that we as a society need to be more informed about it. Problems like these aren't particularly well suited for a democratic solution, though. The whole reason we have agencies like the EPA and the FDA is that THEY are supposed to represent the public good. All plastics in the environment end up being ground to bits, but they never actually disappear until some bacterium learns to eat them. The challenge is to not have that happen too fast. I used to discard my hair cuttings out in the yard, but rethought that ... do I really want to teach something in my yard to eat parts of my tissues or other detritus? I don't think so.

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