Unfortunately, in the process of degrading, plastic gives off methane which contributes more effectively to global warming than carbon dioxide. Some dumps harvest the methane and utilise it but most don’t, so instead of methane being put to good use – for example, in heating buildings – it is contributing to the ever-growing problem of the thinning of the ozone layer.
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our own worst enemy!
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking we should go back to the glass milk jugs that were returnable. But, sadly, they are not convenient to the store or companies.
ReplyDeleteI remember very well the days where plastic didn't exist and sandwiches were wrapped in simple paper. My mother did her shopping with a bag and then suddenly we were all forced to use plastic bags. Now we go back to the past and not to the future ! But the dammage is done !
ReplyDeleteLooks like the atmosphere just can't win, Janice. One of these days it's going to give up and surrender. Then where will we be?
ReplyDelete— K
Kay, Alberta, Canada
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All for the sake of making life easy we screw up our future...same can be said for everyday people. It is all about the moment...
ReplyDeleteFigures!
ReplyDeleteEvery new fix seems to cause more trouble. I think the glass idea is a good one.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know this. Thanks!!!
ReplyDeletethought-provoking - we are simply not smart enough or we don't think to the long term
ReplyDeleteWe need to go back to reusable glass bottles
ReplyDeleteThe "smarter" we become, the dumber we get.
ReplyDeleteYou don't know whether to laugh or cry.
ReplyDeletewe never do our homework!!
ReplyDeleteNow this is really depressing!
ReplyDeleteMadness! :o(
ReplyDeleteSometimes I think "they" are not so much looking for good ideas as ideas that can be presented as "good".
ReplyDeleteI didn't know this. Good point. I think we have entirely too much packaging of everything and not nearly enough recycling. Eventually, necessity will send us in a different direction - if mankind survives long enough.
ReplyDeleteWe have met the enemy and it is ourselves. One would think there would be a way to utilize the plastics to produce efficient, useable energy, a method that every city would use.
ReplyDeleteOf course the easiest way is for all of us to stop, or at least cut way back, buying plastic containers. I don't buy bottled water and I take my own reusable bags to the grocery store.