Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Plastics

[Judy Baxter (BAXTER]

(Putting on my _The Natural Step_ hat)

Ideally, the best way to use plastics is to find ways where they get reused at
the quality  of origin, ie hi-grade plastic stays hi-grade , preserving the
energy, resources etc. that went into it, and gets re-used in some sort of
cyclic process, so it doesn't wind up accumulating in the environment (say gets
re-collected and used make more of its original use) as opposed to getting made
into a plastic conglomerate used for speed bumps, etc.  

Not many businesses are doing this yet, esp. in U.S. - tho I'm told that in
Europe more and more products are made to be disassembled and components
re-used.

Can't do it now, much, but I think it is good to begin to think this way.

Judy


Judy Baxter, Monterey Cohousing Community,(MoCoCo) Twin Cities Area, Mpls.,MN
-- e-mail:      baxter [at] epi.umn.edu
15 homes - 7 new townhomes plus 
        8 coop apartments       in the Mansion (a rehab Georgian building)
(built as a retirement home in 1924 -) which also serves as our Common House
coops moved in 1993, townhomes in 1996
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