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21 - 07-04-2008, 14:51
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i read in the paper some kid devised a way to make plastic bags decompose much faster, meaning a few years, rather than over 100.
He got the process down to 3 months.

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Burd concluded that a combination of two types of bacteria - Sphingomonas and Pseudomonas - was most effective at breaking down the polyethylene. After isolating these two bacteria, combining them with some sodium acetate and incubating the solution at 37 C, Burd was able to degrade the plastic by 43 per cent in six weeks. He figures the solution would entirely break down plastic bags in a matter of three months.
http://canadianpress.google.com/arti...nxSCx6LpJAXmXA
 
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I use the cloth bags now and rarely get a plastic bag. My cloth bags hold the equivalent of three plastic or paper bags, so they're a hell of a lot more convenient. You just have to learn to remember to bring them with you.

My cloth bag ... let me show you it
 
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My plastic grocery bags become Husky/Golden Retriever Poop Bags...I can't get enough!
 
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I usually use any paper grocery bags as containers to hold my recycling, and then throw the whole thing in the recycle bin downstairs. Plastic bags I reuse once as sweaty-clothes-from-gym holders but then I throw them out.
 
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Every grocery store around here sells reuseable bags. They're cloth, but with some slight insulation to keep your cold **** cold on the way home. I've seen a fair amount of people use them.

This is in Denver and Boulder, by the way.
 
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How long until

1. Companies start making plastic bags that biodegrade/break down after 45 days
They have these already at Mountain Equipment Co-op (the Canadian version of REI in the US).
 
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He got the process down to 3 months.



http://canadianpress.google.com/arti...nxSCx6LpJAXmXA
good stuff!
 
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I use cloth bags wherever possible.

My mom has these plastic bins she brings to the grocery store. They're much easier to load and unload groceries with than a plastic bag (provided you're using a car).
 
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I use plastic bags for everything.

I really don't give a **** about the environment though.

every time some dirty hippy tries to get me to buy a cloth bag or biodegradable plate i tell them to go hug a tree.
 
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ender how's the herpes working out for you?
 
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Senty
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Once a microbe develops which can consume plastic they'll have a huge food supply.
 
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ender how's the herpes working out for you?
Very good.

How's being a community college student doing for you?
 
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Makasuro
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Is that supposed to be an insult?

FAIL.
 
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**** hippies
 
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Gil
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I actually learned more and had a better relationship with my teachers in community college than I do at the 4-yr university I'm at now.

Maybe it has something to do with them not having to be so focused on research, or dealing with huge class sizes. Or maybe it's cuz most of them were American-born. I seem to learn better from American-born profs.
 
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Is that supposed to be an insult?

FAIL.


i'm out guys. HAPPY 4th of JULY

gonna start getting wasted at 3pm. dot
 
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Makasuro
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Happy 4th
 
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Very good.

How's being a community college student doing for you?
community college..
are u retarded or something mr. u hawaii manoa
 
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Went down a new river yesterday with a friend, great river, lots of rapids, but damn... Most of the river was beautiful, but all over the place, like everywhere you looked, there were plastic shopping bags hanging in the trees from when there was high water during the last flood. Must've seen thousands of them over the couple hours we were on the river.

Made me think, damn, those are just the ones that happened to get stuck in the trees, I wonder how many make down the river to the ocean, must be many times that, and this is just one fairly small river.

I recycle my plastic grocery bags, but I know most people don't. Does anyone actually use cloth bags for grocery shopping? I don't, cause it seems like a pain in the ass, but after seeing this, I really think I should start.

ya I know this vid isn't just about bags...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9N9uCI2dgs

The grocery stores around here started selling green cloth bags to use, not sure how many people would use them, but I think it's a nice start.
 
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The pastic bags suck.
They tear way too easily.

I always use the paper bags, then I use the paper bags for trash at home.

I've seen those cloth bags at the store, and I've seen people use the cardboard crates you could buy too.
 
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