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Listed below are comments made by Elpachio between Wednesday, 6th August 2008 and Friday, 8th August 2008.

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One week in 2:03pm on 08 Aug 2008 I hope those wooden toothbrushes are from sustainable tree plantations!
One week in 1:48pm on 08 Aug 2008 Lol, true true
One week in 1:31pm on 08 Aug 2008 jhspjhsp wrote:

In fact, when I move house, I'm going to replace all my wires with some 1940's stock I've found. A few house fires is really the kind of sacrifice we as a nation will have to make to rid ourselves of plastic.

I'm sorry but that's among the most ridiculous things I've ever heard in my life.
One week in 1:21pm on 08 Aug 2008 I was speaking to a key player in the plastics recycling industry in Europe, an organisation of members from throughout the value chain, recently. He told me during our conversation that incineration is clean, safe, harmless, and the perfect way of recapturing valuable energy from the packaging and using it for power.

However, when it came down to it he didn't want me to publish him being "for" incinerators because of public perception being so bad. So, it's a mixed message, because I have visited incinerators around the world and they are superb facilities and extremely viable routes for waste, but we don't use them, and the public hates them.......why? The media.
One week in 1:16pm on 08 Aug 2008 If you remember John, toothpaste could be purchased in the past in metal tubes.......these have been slowly fazed out by plastics laminate tubes (side seam) and seamless plastics tubes which has enhanced the quality of them, and the printing no end, i.e. improved shelf presence.

They can be made faster and because toothpaste is a commodity product it keeps the producer costs down and leads to cheaper products for us, the consumer. So unfortunately, plastics often means that the consumer saves money, so it's a bit of a double-edged sword.

And the tubes can be recycled, if the infrastructure is in place.
One week in 1:04pm on 08 Aug 2008 A world without plastic

Wake up in the morning when the sunlight naturally wakes me up, to avoid using a plastic arm clock..........rush up and clean my teeth with baking soda and water (and my finger) to save using plastic toothbrush, have a bath to avoid using plastic shower head......having to keep the taps running to avoid using the rubber plug and keep enough water in the vessel...........grab a banana and go to work, do my business in the office cubicle before going to my desk, where my computer has been replaced by pad, paper, pencil and no phone (it's plastic), boss sacks me for being late after I slept in and didn't get in early enough.
Go home...............................have lunch, and throw all waste food out of the window for the foxes because I cannot use a plastic bin liner in my plastic bin.

A life without plastic.
One week in 12:54pm on 08 Aug 2008 Wooden toothbrushes, wooden toothpaste (!), business at work to save buying plastics..........if we regress any further we'll be back in the Stone Age.
Come on people..........
Nappies: A messy situation 3:29pm on 07 Aug 2008 JOETHEPACK - what company do you work for? I'd be interested to talk to you as I'm editor of Plastics In Packaging magazine (www.plasticsinpackaging.com) - drop me an email on the site.

Steven
Bin there 12:43pm on 06 Aug 2008 Lol, I think Jim was referring to the starch-based "plastics" developed by companies such as NatureWorks (using polylactic acid derived from corn starch). They effectively involve using crops that could otherwise feed people.
One company has even created a GM potato specifically for packaging purposes.
Bin there 11:54am on 06 Aug 2008 You'll probably get an on-the-spot fine from the council! lol.

Compost heaps.......garden hoses......unfortunately those of us in flats don't have such luxuries! ;-)

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