Doug wrote: >So, the bags of garbage off Shi Shi were >but a few grains of sand. Sad really. But noble. >Thank's Dan. You're trying. G'Day Doug and Dan and all, Good to see those individual actions. Love the kayak bike! Wish I could get one to work on the hills of Sydney - maybe an electric kayak bike! Its amazing what high intensity sunlight and seawater can do to some disposable plastic containers. I've cleaned up all sorts of friable translucent objects just barely identifiable and looking as if they are well on the way to becoming grains of high tech 'sand'. But even in that kind of environment some plastics seem to be indestructible. Individual action like individual purchases may seem impossibly low impact but for environmental actions "a little a lot" is often worth much more than "a lot a little". Not dissimilar to marketing where huge profits are sometimes made from selling disposables for a few cents while giving away the capital equipment that uses those disposables. Of course the disposables can be part of the environmental problem darn it - roll on a recycling economy. All the best, PeterO *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu May 06 2010 - 19:55:23 PDT
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