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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (32395)	4/6/2008 4:37:05 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218152

Mac, trash is no problem. It can be used to fuel power stations, make compost, structural materials, or build recreational mountains near cities. My favourite absurdity by hysterical environmentalists is their worry about supermarket plastic bags. Those are highly benign. They are also very useful. Decades ago, I used to wash our plastic bags and hang them on the clothesline. Now I have heaps of them and can chuck them out without worry. They go in the rubbish bin. A truck empties the rubbish bin and takes it to a rubbish dump. It goes into the ground and sits there. Zero pollution. Just like a little bit of coal, but without the vanadium etc which coal contains. A buried plastic bag is about as benign as things get. There's not even any smell before it is buried. The cost of disposal is very low. In fact, I could make a highly profitable business from collecting rubbish. But Bludger Protection laws in NZ stop that. In India, I watched a large rubbish bin most of a day and it was nearly all recycled. People brought stuff along and women, cows, dogs, cats, crows, and presumably rats when nobody was looking, would remove nearly all of it. There was a pecking order. Women were top, then cows, dogs, cats, crows and rats carefully avoided being recycled by not being seen by me or the others. A dog tried getting up the pecking order a little but its snarl at a woman earned it a can in the face and it went back to its normal status. The cows and women got on fine because they were after different things and both are nice natured. Ozone depletion is no problem. CFCs were an issue in the 1980s. Sunlight produces plenty of ozone. Mqurice